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    The Cowles Council Chambers are seen in Homer City Hall on Pioneer Avenue in April 2025 in Homer, Alaska. (Homer News file photo)
    Council accepts grant for library security grille
    By Delcenia Cosman • November 13, 2025 8:30 am

    The Rasmuson Foundation awarded the Homer Public Library $19,000 in grant funding for the installation of a new security grille.

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    The Homer Public Library. File photo
    Library updates privacy policy to address electronic communications
    By Delcenia Cosman • November 12, 2025 5:30 pm

    A resolution amending the Homer Public Library’s privacy policy was passed Monday during the regular Homer City Council meeting.

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    "Tern Tern Tern," a photograph captured by Taz Tally in 2019, is one of several images on display through November in his solo exhibit at the Art Shop Gallery in Homer, Alaska. Photo provided by Taz Tally
    Deliberate compositions
    By Christina Whiting • November 12, 2025 12:30 pm

    Photographer Taz Tally “dove headlong” into digital photography as a young artist to capture nuance and texture in his subjects.

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    Low clouds hang over Cook Inlet north of Anchor Point on Oct. 23, 2025. The Trump administration is planning an oil and gas lease sale in federal territory of the inlet. It is set to be the first of at six Cook Inlet lease sales that Congress has mandated by held between now and 2032. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)
    Trump administration sets terms for upcoming oil and...
    By Yereth Rosen Alaska Beacon • November 12, 2025 8:30 am

    The ‘Big Beautiful Cook Inlet Oil and Gas Lease Sale,’ scheduled for March, would follow a series of federal and state inlet lease sales that drew little industry interest.

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    The KBBI Public Radio office and studio is on Kachemak Way, as seen in this photo taken July 2, 2019, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
    Kenai Peninsula public radio receives grant funding
    By Delcenia Cosman • November 11, 2025 5:30 pm

    The Alaska Community Foundation fund recently awarded $2.9 million in grants to public media stations statewide, including in Homer and Kenai.

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    Grant Aviation’s Cessna 208B EX Grand Caravan is pictured at the Kenai Municipal Airport in Kenai, Alaska, on Monday, March 4, 2024. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)
    Federal mandate orders Grant Aviation to cut flights
    By Chloe Anderson • November 11, 2025 12:30 pm

    Grant Aviation will cut 10% of its flights between Kenai and Anchorage by Nov. 14.

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    Members of the American Legion Post 16, VFW Post 10221, Civil Air Patrol and Homer Emblem Club #350, as well as local veterans or current military members, march in a parade through Homer, Alaska, in honor of Veterans Day on Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)
    ‘To serve the nation’s cause’
    By Delcenia Cosman • November 11, 2025 12:30 pm

    A parade was held in Homer on Tuesday in honor of Veterans Day.

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    Community members attending the Title 21 Open House hosted by the City of Homer share their ideas on proposed zoning district changes on Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025, at Kachemak Bay Campus in Homer, Alaska. Photo courtesy Karyn DeCino
    City hosts zoning code community meeting
    By Delcenia Cosman • November 11, 2025 8:30 am

    A community open house centered on updates currently underway to Homer’s Title 21 zoning and planning code was held last Thursday.

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    Crews work on the botanical garden on Tuesday, May 18, 2021, at the Pratt Museum in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
    Pratt Museum names permanent executive director
    By Delcenia Cosman • November 10, 2025 12:30 pm

    Whitney Harness has been serving as interim co-executive director since February.

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    The cast of Kenai Central High School’s upcoming production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” pose for a photo on Nov. 6, 2025. The play will open on Nov. 14 at 7 p.m. Photo courtesy of Travis Lawson
    Kenai students prepare to open ‘A Midsummer Night’s...
    By Chloe Anderson • November 10, 2025 2:30 am

    The play will premiere Friday at Kenai Central High School, with additional showings the following weekend.

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    State of Alaska Department of Law logo. Photo courtesy of the State of Alaska Department of Law
    Homer man sentenced for sexual abuse of minor
    By Delcenia Cosman • November 6, 2025 12:30 pm

    Michael Robert Fisher was sentenced last week to 20 years in prison for crimes committed in 2012.

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    The sign at the front of Kenai River Campus’s main building as seen on Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019. (Photos by Brian Mazurek/Peninsula Clarion)
    Kenai Peninsula College receives federal grant
    By Delcenia Cosman • November 6, 2025 8:30 am

    Grant funds will establish a program to support first-generation college students.

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    "Reflections" is a watercolor painting by Michael Murray, one of several paintings by members of the Kachemak Bay Watercolor Society on display through November at Fireweed Gallery. Photo provided by Fireweed Gallery
    November First Friday
    By Christina Whiting • November 5, 2025 5:30 pm

    See annual exhibits, photography, watercolors and more in Homer’s galleries this month.

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