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Josiah Kelly, right, appears for a superior court arraignment at the Kenai Courthouse in Kenai, Alaska, on Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Competency exam scheduled for Kelly

Josiah Kelly was arrested in November for three shooting incidents in Homer.

Steve Delehanty, the former manager of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center, addresses a crowd gathered to celebrate his public service on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. (Chloe Pleznac/Homer News)

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Celebrating careers dedicated to protecting wild places

Delehanty, Loranger retire from refuge management on Kenai Peninsula.

Homer City Hall. (Homer News file photo)

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Council to hold hearings on ordinances

Public hearings for several ordinances are scheduled for the Jan. 27 council meeting.

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Ninilchik receives federal transit funding

The award came from the Federal Transit Administration’s Tribal Transit Program

Golden-yellow birch trees and spruce frame a view of Aurora Lagoon and Portlock Glacier from a trail in the Cottonwood-Eastland Unit of Kachemak Bay State Park off East End Road on Sunday, Oct. 3, 2021, near Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong)

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State parks division seeks citizen advisory board members

Seats are available on the Seward, Kenai River Special Management Area and Kachemak Bay boards.

The sign in front of the Homer Electric Association building in Kenai, Alaska, as seen on April 1, 2020. (Photo by Brian Mazurek/Peninsula Clarion file)

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Nominations open for HEA board

Nominations will be accepted through Feb. 28.

Homer Harbor on Saturday, May 20, 2023. (Emilie Springer/ Homer News file)

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Council extends seine skiff fee exemption

Moorage fees for work and seine skiffs attached to motherships are exempted through 2025.

A schematic site plan of Doyon, Limited’s revised Lighthouse Village redevelopment design is on display during a special Planning Commission meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024, in the Homer City Hall Cowles Council Chambers in Homer, Alaska. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)

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Council to hold public hearing on Doyon rezone

Homer’s Planning Commission previously recommended rezoning 1491 Bay Avenue from rural residential to General Commercial 1.

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‘Women’s rights are human rights’

The 2025 Women’s March on Homer was held Saturday in conjunction with marches across the country.

Kenai Peninsula Borough Mayor Peter Micciche points to where the disconnected baler ram has bent piping at the Central Peninsula Landfill in Soldotna, Alaska, on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Borough, advocates seek path forward for recycling after baler failure

The borough needs to measure whether its actions are really reducing the impact of solid waste on the…

Volunteers sort winter gear prior to the start of the annual Community Resource Connect on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024, at the SPARC in Homer, Alaska. Photo provided by Derotha Ferraro

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Community Resource Connect returns Tuesday

The annual event will take place in Homer and Anchor Point.

A local community member walks up Ben Walters Lane on a newly completed sidewalk on Monday, Sept. 30, 2024, in Homer, Alaska. The City of Homer was recently awarded a federal grant for the city’s continued efforts in establishing nonmotorized transportation access. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News file)

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Homer receives federal grant for walkability projects

A DOT grant program awarded $2 million to Homer for nonmotorized infrastructure.

The logo for South Peninsula Hospital. Homer News file photo.

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Measles case confirmed in Homer

South Peninsula Hospital will offer free MMR vaccines starting Monday.