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    Nikolaevsk
    Lisa James holds up a book containing Nikolavesk History in the Nikolavesk School on Sunday, June 1, 2025, in Nikolavesk, Alaska. She said the book, along with trophies, photographs, and other school items will be boxed up and relocated to Homer Middle School upon Nikolavesk School’s closing on June 30. (Chloe Pleznac/Homer News)
    Nikolaevsk School prepares for June 30 closure
    By Chloe Pleznac Homer News • June 5, 2025 2:30 pm

    The school serves a primarily Russian Old Believer community located about 19 miles outside of Homer.

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    Nikolaevsk</span> School is photographed on Thursday, April 3, 2025, in Nikolaevsk, Alaska. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)
    ‘We just need more time’
    By Delcenia Cosman • April 7, 2025 1:30 am

    Nikolaevsk advocated keeping their school open during a KPBSD community meeting last week.

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    Community members gather in a building part of the Church of St. Nicholas, out of which a school cooperative runs, during a meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023 in Nikolaevsk, Alaska. In rear, cars are parked in front of a building that has been used this school year as a makeshift classroom for families who are part of a home-school cooperative. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)
    School board rejects Nikolaevsk charter school application
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • November 1, 2023 2:30 am

    Charter organizers say they plan to appeal that decision to the State of Alaska

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    Nikolaevsk resident convicted of arson in 2017 fire
    Nikolaevsk resident convicted of arson in 2017 fire
    By Homer News Staff • August 30, 2023 1:30 am

    A Homer jury last week found a Nikolaevsk resident guilty of setting a 2017 fire that killed a neighbor’s dog…

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    Photo provided by Billeen Carlson
KPBSD students Lyndzi Gausin (Kenai Central High School), Morgan Carlson-Kelly (Nikolaevsk), Autumn Jones (Homer High School), Caitlin Eskelin (Soldotna High School) and Stephanie Huffer (Kenai Central High School) compete in national Educators Rising competition in Florida in June 2023.
    KPBSD students attend national Educators Rising conference
    By Emilie Springer • July 12, 2023 1:30 am

    Alaska sent a large delegation of competitors to the 2023 Educators Rising conference in Orlando, Florida last month. Among the…

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    Photo by Delcenia Cosman
Students, kindergarten through ninth grades, check their growth pods Feb. 14 in the hydroponics room at Nikolaevsk School.
    Nikolaevsk hydroponics ends year strong
    By Delcenia Cosman • May 25, 2023 1:30 am

    The first year of operation culminated in multiple harvests, hands-on lessons for students and fundraising events

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    Students’ individual growth pods are set up in the hydroponics room on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023 at Nikolaevsk School in Nikolaevsk, Alaska. Photo by Delcenia Cosman
    Nikolaevsk School starts grant-funded hydroponics program
    By Delcenia Cosman • February 16, 2023 1:30 am

    Nikolaevsk School recently kick-started a student-run hydroponics program, funded by an $8,000 grant from national nonprofit organization Green Our Planet.

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