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Baby Benedict Joseph Traugott, South Peninsula Hospital’s first baby of 2024 pictured with his parents Elizabeth and Nathan Traugott.

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South Peninsula Hospital welcomes the 1st baby of 2024

Baby Benedict Joseph Traugott was the first baby born in 2024 at South Peninsula Hospital’s Family Birthing Center.…

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Members of Homer’s Elks Lodge and employees of Hospice of Homer stand under the new gazebo donated by the lodge at the end of 2023.

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Homer Elks provides new barbecue equipment to Hospice of Homer

Homer Elks Lodge last month provided Hospice of Homer with a new metal gazebo and barbecue grill to…

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Six weeks of literature

Big Read events encourage curiosity, conversation and community engagement

Bryce Butler pulls an athlete from Chickaloon up and over to win a round of the Inuit stick pull during the Kahtnuht’ana Hey Chi’ula Native Youth Olympics Invitational at Kenai Middle School in Kenai, Alaska, on Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Test of strength

Peninsula athletes compete in Native Youth Olympics invitational

Cook Inlet Coordinator for the Department of Fish and Game Matt Miller and Kenai/Soldotna Fish and Game Advisory Committee Members Greg Springer and Monte Roberts discuss proposals to the the State Board of Fisheries at a committee meeting at Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association in Kenai, Alaska, on Monday, Jan. 15, 2024. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Advisory committee tackles sport fishing in latest meeting

The meeting was among a series slated to set recommendations on nearly 200 proposals to the State Board…

Todd Smith, who sits in a commercial fishing set net seat, discusses proposals during a meeting of the Kenai/Soldotna Fish and Game Advisory Committee at Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association in Kenai, Alaska, on Monday, Jan. 8, 2024. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Optimal escapement goal supported at advisory committee meeting

How many king salmon does it take to rebuild a run, and what restrictions should be in place…

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First National Vice President and Homer Branch Manager Erik Niebuhr, and Claudia Haines, KBFPC CEO.

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Kachemak Bay Family Planning Clinic receives support for building repairs

Kachemak Bay Family Planning Clinic was awarded a $10,000 grant from First National Bank Alaska to support KBFPC’s…

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Homer community members hold signs on Pioneer Avenue and Svedlund Street in Homer in support of improving senior safety and housing conditions at the Homer Senior Citizens Center on Jan. 15, 2024.

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Community members protest conditions at senior center

Local residents express continued concern about Homer Senior Citizen center

A sign welcomes employees and visitors at the Kenai Peninsula Borough administration building on Tuesday, March 17, 2020, in Soldotna, Alaska. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)

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New policy clarifies filming, recording in borough facilities

A new Kenai Peninsula Borough policy that explains what is and isn’t allowed in borough buildings when it…

Graduates throw their caps into the air at the end of Soldotna High School’s commencement ceremony on Wednesday, May 18, 2022 in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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School board mulls grad policy clarifications

High school graduates would only be permitted to participate in the commencement ceremonies of the school they are…

Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Finance Director Liz Hayes (left) presents preliminary fiscal year 2025 budge information during a school board committee meeting on Monday, Jan. 8, 2024 in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O'Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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Budget deficit continues to steer school board talks

Warnings about the implications and scale of the budget deficit the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District is facing…

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Bunnell to host Maker’s Spaces for parade

The Bunnell Street Arts Center exhibit gallery may be closed for the month of January, but that doesn’t…

From left, Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly members Bill Elam, Brent Johnson, Tyson Cox and Brent Hibbert attend an assembly meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023 in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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Assembly calls on state to increase K-12 funding

School districts across Alaska lobbied lawmakers heavily last session for a meaningful increase to the base student allocation