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The setting sun over Kachemak Bay highlights Mount Augustine in the distance on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024, in Homer, Alaska. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)

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Augustine Island geothermal lease sale opens

Tracts are available on the northern half of the island, located in the lower Cook Inlet.

Vice Principal Katie Bynagle holds up a pitcher of pancake mix during the pancake breakfast on Tuesday, March 25, 2025 in the Homer High School commons. (Photo courtesy of Winter Marshall-Allen)

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HHS prepares students for state assessments with pancakes

The pancake breakfast was Tuesday, March 25.

Program Manager Caitlin Coreson with Kenai Peninsula Economic Development District shows a student a website with educational workforce resources during the job fair on Friday, March 28, 2025 in the Homer High School commons. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)

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Homer Job Fair connects youth with local opportunities

The first annual Homer Community Job Fair was held on Friday, March 28, at Homer High School. The…

Kachemak Bay Conservation Society Vice President Penelope Haas points at a presentation slide on Homer housing data on Tuesday, March 25, 2025 at Kachemak Bay Campus. (Chloe Pleznac/Homer News)

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Homer gathers to discuss comp plan, potential city code rewrites

Homer has changed rapidly over the last dozen or so years, as any local can tell you. Many…

Owners Dahkota Larson and Kait Skundrich sit in a corner of the shop on Friday, March 28, 2025. (Chloe Pleznac/Homer News)

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New gear shop opens in Homer

Old Sterling Outfitters is just a 10-minute drive from town.

Community members peruse the silent auction items while conversing during the annual Celebration of Lifelong Learning event at the Homer Public Library on Saturday, March 29, 2025. (Chloe Pleznac/Homer News)

Community

Library celebrates lifelong learning at annual event

This year’s Lifelong Learner and Youth Learner were honored and awarded at the annual Celebration of Lifelong Learning…

Maria Jose Hernandez-Just and her family pose for a photograph after her win on March 21, 2025 at the Wendy Williamson Auditorium at UAA. (Photo courtesy of Francia Lorena Just)

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Homer 7th grader wins statewide spelling bee

Maria Jose Hernandez-Just will represent Alaska during the Scripps National Spelling Bee in May.

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Community

Art celebrating spring

Homer’s galleries and public art spaces celebrate spring with local artists showcasing new and continuing work. Stroll the…

Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly member Tyson Cox speaks during a town hall meeting hosted by three Kenai Peninsula legislators in the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly Chambers in Soldotna, Alaska, on Saturday, March 29, 2025. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Education hot topic at legislative town hall

More than 100 people attended a three-hour meeting where 46 spoke.

HEX President and CEO John Hendrix is photographed at Furie’s central processing facility in Nikiski, Alaska, on Wednesday, July 10, 2024. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Furie announces new lease to use Hilcorp rig, will drill this spring

A jack-up rig is a mobile platform that can be transported and deployed in different areas.

The Homer Public Library. File photo

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In wake of executive order, peninsula libraries, museums brace for funding losses

Trump’s March 14 executive order may dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services “to the maximum extent…

Jacob Caldwell, chief executive officer of Kenai Aviation, stands at the Kenai Aviation desk at the Kenai Municipal Airport on Thursday, Sept. 13, 2022, in Kenai, Alaska. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Kenai Aviation selected to provide air service to Seward

Scheduled flights between Seward and Anchorage will begin May 1.

Monte Roberts, left, and Greg Brush, right, raise their hands during an emergency meeting of the Kenai River Special Management Area Advisory Board’s guide committee at the Kenai Peninsula Region Office of Alaska State Parks near Soldotna, Alaska, on Feb. 25, 2025. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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KRSMA board pushes back on new guide stipulations, calls for public process

Stipulations 32 and 40 were included in an updated list emailed to Kenai River guides.