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Tlingit master carver Wayne Price, left, and students from Angoon High School wheel a dugout canoe down to the Angoon waterfront on Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021, for a ceremony commemorating the bombardment of the village by the U.S. Navy in 1882. Dugout canoes were specifically targeted by the navy for destruction, and Price said crafting a new one was a way of healing from the past. (Peter Segall / Juneau Empire)

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Remembering and rebuilding: Angoon residents commemorate 139 years since bombardment

‘We’re still here.”

A sign in downtown Seldovia is photographed on Sept. 27, 2021. (Peninsula Clarion file)

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Seldovia increases sales tax to fund new grader

The tax increase will bump Seldovia’s sales tax during the second and third quarter from 4.5% to 6.5%.

Cars wait while debris is cleared from a section of the Sterling Highway on Monday, Nov. 1, 2021 near Cooper Landing, Alaska. A landslide on Sunday morning blocked both lanes of the highway, which had partially reopened Monday.(Camille Botello/Peninsula Clarion)

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Traffic moving with delays in Cooper Landing after landslide

The landslide happened on a section of road between Mileposts 49 and 51 on the Sterling Highway.

The Kenai Community Library health section is seen on Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021. After the Kenai City Council postponed a vote to approve a grant funding health and wellness book, community members set up a GoFundMe to support the purchase of materials. (Camille Botello/Peninsula Clarion)

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Kenai library fundraiser surpasses $15k before ending

The fundraiser was launched in response to a move by the Kenai City Council to delay approval of…

This map shows proposed land additions (A, B and C) to Kachemak Bay State Park in House Bill 52, a bill filed by Rep. Sarah Vance, R-Homer, that also would remove the Tutka Bay Lagoon Hatchery from the park. (Map courtesy of Alaska State Parks)

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State Parks holds meeting on Eastland-Cottonwood

House Bill 52 could add land to north shore side of Kachemak Bay State Park.

Homer High School. (Homer News file photo)

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School district risk level update and upcoming events

KPBSD Itinerant Counselor Natali Jones reads “All Are Welcome” by Alexandra Penfold in support of the LGBTQ+ community during a meeting of the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Board of Education on Monday, Nov. 1, 2021 in Soldotna, Alaska. Treatment of LGBTQ+ students within the school district dominated public testimony during the board’s Monday night meeting. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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‘Everyone deserves to have a safe learning environment’

Students, teachers speak out about LGBTQ+ inclusion at school board meeting.

A sign points to the South Peninsula Hospital COVID-19 testing and vaccination clinic on Bartlett Street on Monday, Oct. 24, 2021, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Vaccination clinics offered in following CDC approval for young children.

As CDC moves to vaccines for children, Vance says ‘NO COVID-19 Vax for MY children’

A progressive pride flag hangs in Winter Marshall-Allen’s classroom at Homer High School on Friday, Oct. 29, 2021 in Homer Alaska. Marshall-Allen was previously asked to take the flag and other symbols displayed in her classroom down, but was allowed to put it back up after filing a grievance with the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District.

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‘The school building needs to be a safe haven’

Union forms commission in response to accusations of LGBTQ+ censorship in schools

Douglas Shockley, 63, was found dead near the Dredge Lake Trail on Monday after going missing over the weekend, said a police spokesperson. (Courtesy photo / JPD)

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Missing hiker found dead near Dredge Lake

He went hiking on Saturday

In this Thursday, March 5, 2020, photo, antique clocks are displayed at the Electric Time Company, in Medfield, Massachusetts. Most Americans will lose an hour of sleep this weekend, but gain an hour of evening light for months ahead, as Daylight Saving Time returns this weekend. The time change officially starts Sunday at 2 a.m. local time. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

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Daylight Saving Time ends

Daylight Saving Time ends Sunday

Courtesy photo/Cheryl Fellman Cheryl Fellman enters the chilly waters of Auke Bay. Freeman is on the verge of becoming one of only 43 Americans — and 422 people worldwide — to swim an official Ice Mile.

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Juneau woman to attempt rare ice swimming feat

Brrrrrr!

The Falcon heavy-lift vessel carrying the jack-up rig Randolph Yost left Kachemak Bay on Monday afternoon, Oct. 25. (Photo by Sarah Knapp/Homer News)

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Jack-up rig Randolph Yost is moved out of Kachemak Bay on Monday by heavy-lift vessel Falcon.

Oil rig had been in Alaska since 2016, was brought up to drill in upper Cook Inlet.