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Local teacher receives presidential award for excellence

Encouraging students to become lifelong learners is what Jason Daniels strives to accomplish every day in his classroom.…

A group of young people try out the thawed skate park on Monday, Feb. 28, 2022, at the Homer Education and Recreation Complex in Homer, Alaska. The Homer City Council met Monday and heard a report by Stantec staff on a proposed design for a new community center to go on the HERC site. The design includes a skate park. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Council gets first look at community center plan

Stantec presents first draft of multipurpose community center to go on HERC site.

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Driftwood Charters vessel rescues man who floated into Cook Inlet on iceberg

Man rescued after floating in Cook Inlet on iceberg

Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Superintendent Clayton Holland speaks during a board meeting on Monday, Dec. 6, 2021 in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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Contact tracing, masking to end at schools Friday

The district announced new changes to its COVID-19 protocol on Monday

Homer High School. (Homer News file photo)

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School district risk level update and upcoming events

CDC.gov A map of COVID-19 Community Levels by county show the Kenai Peninsula have a “medium” community level on Friday, Feb. 24, 2022.

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CDC: Many more can ditch masks, for now

The agency is now only advising universal masking in regions where community COVID level is high

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Sterling Highway crash sends woman, child to Anchorage for intensive care

The Tuesday collision occurred near the Sterling Transfer Facility

This chart shows the local effect of the omicron COVID-19 variant wave in Homer since Dec. 22, 2021, as seen in tests and patients at South Peninsula Hospital in Homer, Alaska. Although positive cases were high, hospitalizations were low. For the week ending March 1, there was one emergency room visit and no hospitalizations, and positive cases and monoclonal antibody infusions had dropped — a sign that the latest wave of the pandemic may be subsiding. (Image by South Peninsula Hospital)

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COVID rate continues dropping

‘We’re on the back side of the omicron wave,’ Public Health nurse tells Homer City Council.

Central Peninsula Hospital is seen in Soldotna on Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021. (Camille Botello/Peninsula Clarion)

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As COVID cases fall statewide, hospital feels relief

COVID cases have been plummeting in Alaska since mid-January

Former Gov. Bill Walker discusses his gubernatorial campaign with the Citizen’s AKtion Network on Feb. 17. (Screenshot from meeting)

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Gubernatorial candidate Walker discusses election with CAN

Former Alaska governor and current gubernatorial candidate Bill Walker spent more than an hour with the Citizen’s AKtion…

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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COVID rate continues dropping

Reported death was one of 27 new deaths reported last week.

Tuckerman Babcock stands in The Peninsula Clarion office on Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022 in Kenai, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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Babcock enters state Senate race

Babcock will challenge incumbent Peter Micciche for the seat containing Kenai and Soldotna

The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly convenves on Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022 in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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Assembly approves $30,000 cybersecurity contract following incident

The borough’s IT director said no public data was compromised