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A sign at the corner of Pioneer Avenue and Bartlett Street points the way to the South Peninsula Hospital COVID-19 testing and vaccine clinic on Bartlett Street on Feb. 17, 2021, in Homer, Alaska.
A sign at the corner of Pioneer Avenue and Bartlett Street points the way to the South Peninsula Hospital COVID-19 testing and vaccine clinic on Bartlett Street on Feb. 17, 2021, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Case rates steady on southern peninsula

Thirteen more Alaskans reported dead of COVID-19.

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Homer man killed in car crash

Troopers said Charles Moore, 60, was driver and only occupant in single-vehicle crash.

A humpback whale breeches in Kachemak Bay in a photo taken July 2019. (Photo by Emma Luck)

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Homer’s First Marine Mammal Forum

For marine naturalist Emma Luck, seeing whales and other wildlife in Kachemak Bay was part of growing up…

Caring for the Kenai logo. (Image courtesy Merrill Sikorski)

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Caring for the Kenai announces winners

A natural disaster preparedness digital app created by a Cook Inlet Academy sophomore took the top prize

Cooper Landing Fire and Emergency Medical Services respond to a trailer fire on Tuesday, April 26, 2022, near Mile 38 Seward Highway near Cooper Landing, Alaska. The fire destroyed the trailer carrying U.S. Mail from Anchorage to the Southern Kenai Peninsula. (Photo courtesy of Cooper Landing Fire and EMS)

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Trailer fire destroys some peninsula-bound mail

Fire in semi-tractor trailer destroys mail bound for some Southern Kenai Peninsula towns.

Signs hang on the entryway wall at the Kenai Peninsula Education Association office in Soldotna, Alaska, in this Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021, file photo. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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‘It’s time to go’

COVID stress, workload cited among reasons some staff are leaving the school district

Homer High School. (Homer News file photo)

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School announcements

School district risk level update and upcoming events

(From left) Mike Frost, Monica Frost, Tara Sweeney and Sue Carter attend a campaign meet and greet at Addie Camp on Saturday, April 16, 2022 in Soldotna, Alaska. Sweeney is running to fill the seat of former U.S. House Rep. Don Young, who died in March. (Photo courtesy Karina Waller)

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Sweeney brings Congressional campaign to the central peninsula

She is one of 48 candidates vying for Alaska’s vacant U.S. House seat

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A sign at the corner of Pioneer Avenue and Bartlett Street points the way to the South Peninsula Hospital COVID-19 testing and vaccine clinic on Bartlett Street on Feb. 17, 2021, in Homer, Alaska.
A sign at the corner of Pioneer Avenue and Bartlett Street points the way to the South Peninsula Hospital COVID-19 testing and vaccine clinic on Bartlett Street on Feb. 17, 2021, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Peninsula man dies of COVID-19

Southern Kenai Peninsula man 80 or older is one of seven new Alaska deaths.

The commerical fishing fleet is seen from Pacific Star Seafoods in Kenai, Alaska, on Tuesday, July 14, 2020. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)

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Board of Fish votes no on Proposal 283

The proposal would have loosened restrictions for set gillnetters in a part of Cook Inlet

The Alaska House of Representatives passed the state's operating and mental health budget bills on Saturday, April 9, 2022, after a week of marathon floor sessions tackling amendments. (Peter Segall / Juneau Empire)

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House passes operating, mental health budgets, fails to pass effective date, reverse sweep

On to the Senate.

Joanna Samson-Sills works at the Freedom House in Soldotna, Alaska, on Monday, April 4, 2022. (Camille Botello/Peninsula Clarion)

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Reckoning with the painful legacy of opioids

Peninsula to receive drugmaker settlement funds in wake of crisis

Kenai Peninsula Borough School District student Olivia Ferguson, who also serves as the student representative to KPBSD Board of Education’s information committee, testifies before the board Monday, April 11, 2022, in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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$65M bond package presented to board of education

The funds would tackle maintenance and repairs at district schools