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    Terry Rensel poses in the KBBI studios in this 2016 photo in Homer, Alaska. (Photo provided)
    Rensel leaving KBBI
    By Staff report Homer News • May 8, 2019 5:30 am

    KBBI Public Radio General Manager Terry Rensel has resigned effective May 24, KBBI Board of Directors President Genie Hambrick said…

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    HEA announces winner of board elections; McKittrick elected for lower Kenai Peninsula
    HEA announces winner of board elections; McKittrick elected...
    By Michael Armstrong • May 8, 2019 5:30 am

    Homer Electric Association members elected three directors at the cooperative’s 69th Annual Meeting of the Members in Kenai on May…

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    Mayor Charlie Pierce speaks at a Kenai Peninsula Borough meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019. (Photo by Brian Mazurek/Peninsula Clarion)
    Pierce vetoes $2.5 million for schools
    By Victoria Petersen • May 8, 2019 1:30 am

    The Borough Assembly passed an ordinance April 16 increasing the FY 2019 funds by $2,423,955.

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    Plans for mens’ residential addiction treatment center move forward
    Plans for mens’ residential addiction treatment center move...
    By Megan Pacer • May 1, 2019 5:30 am

    Editor’s note: The story has been changed to clarify that the Homer Advisory Planning Commission voted to approve a conditional…

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    Homer City Manager Katie Koester, left, watches Homer Mayor Ken Castner sign a $4.1 million bond to fund construction of the new Homer Police Station at Homer City Hall on April 24, 2019, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo provided)
    City officials sign new $4.1 million bond for...
    By Michael Armstrong • May 1, 2019 5:30 am

    City of Homer officials last week signed bond documents to complete financing for the new Homer Police Station. It comes…

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    Car at East End shop hit with racist...
    By Megan Pacer • May 1, 2019 5:30 am

    Alaska State Troopers do not have any more information in a second case of racist graffiti to happen in an…

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    An aerial view of a brush fire in Ninilchik on Saturday. (Photo by Tim Whitesell/Division of Forestry)
    Peninsula heads into fire season
    By Brian Mazurek • May 1, 2019 1:30 am

    Ninilchik fire is 12th to occur in region since the start of fire season

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    Jon Faulkner in a May 2012 file photo taken in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
    Faulkner leaves state job
    By Michael Armstrong • April 24, 2019 5:30 am

    Land’s End Resort owner Jonathan Faulkner has left his job with the Alaska Department of Commerce, Community and Economic Development…

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    Court of Appeals upholds sexual assault conviction; remands to court issue of sentencing
    Court of Appeals upholds sexual assault conviction; remands...
    By Michael Armstrong • April 24, 2019 5:30 am

    The Alaska Court of Appeals has upheld the conviction of a Fairbanks man who sexually assaulted a Homer woman in…

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    Council tables discussion of future water extension process
    Council tables discussion of future water extension process
    By Megan Pacer • April 24, 2019 5:30 am

    The Homer City Council at its Monday meeting began to discuss, and then tabled, a future process for extending Homer…

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    Part of country-western singer Zac Brown’s log home is visible from Dorothy Drive overlooking Kachemak Bay in Homer, Alaska in this photo taken on July 9, 2018. A pedestrian easement to the right in this photo runs between Brown’s property and his neighbor. Brown and other neighbors at the end of the rural road have petitioned to vacate a north-south section line easement that crosses Dorothy Drive and also runs south to a neighboring subdivision. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
    Dorothy Drive neighbors seek to vacate section line...
    By Michael Armstrong • April 24, 2019 5:30 am

    The Alaska Department of Natural Resources has issued a preliminary decision to vacate a section line that goes through the…

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    The covered porch at the end of the Windjammer Suites building at 320 W. Pioneer Ave. is shown in a photograph taken April 23, 2019, in Homer, Alaska. In 2014 the Homer Advisory Planning Commission granted a conditional use permit for the porch to be in a 20-foot setback, a decision citizen activist Frank Griswold attempted to appeal before the Homer Board of Adjustment. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
    Alaska Supreme Court finds local resident has standing...
    By Michael Armstrong • April 24, 2019 5:30 am

    A Homer citizen activist has prevailed in an Alaska Supreme Court case asserting he has standing to appeal a 2014…

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    From left, the Caring for the Kenai finalists Akilena Veach and Lindy Guernsey (second place), Austin Cline (first place), and Anna DeVolld (third place) pose for a photo at Kenai Central High School in Alaska on Thursday, April 18, 2019. (Photo by Brian Mazurek/Peninsula Clarion)
    Homer High student wins Caring for the Kenai...
    By Brian Mazurek • April 24, 2019 1:30 am

    What do butterflies, video games and a parody of “Ice, Ice, Baby” by Vanilla Ice have in common?

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