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Photo by Emilie Springer Homer Middle School students Hunter Gauthier, Fletcher Darr and Amakah Stineff conduct the oil spill in a pan experiment in Ms. Booz’s 8th grade science class on Feb. 22.

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Area students participate in prevention and response lectures, workshops

The events come ahead of the 35th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill

Gary Hollier pulls a sockeye salmon from a set gillnet at a test site for selective harvest setnet gear in Kenai, Alaska, on Tuesday, July 25, 2023. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Findings from pilot setnet fishery study inconclusive

The study sought to see whether shorter nets could selectively catch sockeye salmon while allowing king salmon to…

Homer City Hall. (Homer News file photo)

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Council votes down short-term rentals ordinance

The Homer city council will continue conversation on housing and short term rentals

The Anchor Point Post Office stamped Ruth Kyllonen’s letter to her chlldren in commemoration of the post office’s opening on March 1, 1949 in Anchor Point, Alaska. Photo provided by Laurinda Phillips

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Anchor Point post office celebrates 75 years

Community is invited to take part in anniversary activities on Friday

Photo by Emilie Springer Fireweed Academy 4th grade students Kai Gregoire and Eli Busche-Vold show their ASTE award in the school hallway last week.

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Fireweed Academy students recognized for podcast in statewide contest

Two Fireweed Academy students this month won a statewide audio technology award for their work creating a podcast.

From left, Sen. Jesse Bjorkman, R-Nikiski, east side setnetter Ken Coleman and Konrad Jackson present information about a bill establishing a voluntary buyback program for east side setnet fishery permits during a Senate Finance Committee meeting on Monday, Feb. 20, 2024, in Juneau, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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Senate committee hears setnet buyback bill

The East Side of Cook Inlet Set Net Fleet Reduction Act is sponsored by Nikiski Sen. Jesse Bjorkman

Voters fill out their ballots at the Challenger Learning Center in Kenai, Alaska on Election Day, Nov. 8, 2022. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Bjorkman leads local campaign finance pack, reports show

The reports, due Feb. 15 for candidates running for state office in 2024, offer a glimpse at the…

Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion Caitlin Babcock addresses students during Luke Herman’s government class at Soldotna High School on Feb. 8 in Soldotna.

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‘This state will lose us and generations of students after’

Amid education funding shortfalls, local students advocate for support

Representative Sarah Vance addresses Homer constituents about current legislative priorities, primarily SB 140, at a town hall meeting at Kachemak Bay Campus in Homer on Saturday, February 17, 2024. (Emilie Springer/Homer News}

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Vance town hall focuses on education

Most community comments were related to creating a stable, permanent increase to per-student funding

"The Cold Millions," this year’s NEA Big Read book, is available for check-out at the Homer Public Library in Homer, Alaska. Photo provided by the Homer Public Library

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Homer’s Big Read wraps up with a final week of events

Homer Public Library hosted 6 weeks of community reading

Peninsula Clarion government and education reporter Ashlyn O’Hara stands in the hallways of the Alaska State Capitol in Juneau on Monday.

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Clarion reporter working in Juneau for legislative exchange

Reporter Ashlyn O’Hara will be covering statewide issues with a local lens

Signage marks a trailhead in Kachemak Bay State Park on Saturday, May 6, 2023, near Homer, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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Halibut Cove lodge facing misdemeanor charge for illicit trail

The trail extends 785 feet south from the commercial property into the state park

Kachemak Emergency Services logo.

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Borough settles harassment and discrimination suit brought by former firefighter

The borough is not admitting any wrongdoing through the settlement