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Kenai Central High School esports players participate in a practice match of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate ahead of a scheduled game at Kenai Central High School in Kenai, Alaska, on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Esports back with new games, players

High school esports, in Alaska and locally in the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District, are growing. More games…

Homer High School. (Homer News file photo)

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School announcements

School district risk level update and upcoming events

Homer Police Lt. Ryan Browning provides 'youth and technology' presentation Saturday Feb. 4 at Homer High School in Homer, Alaska. Photo provided by Christopher Kincaid.

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Presentation targets online risks for youth

Homer Police Lt. Ryan Browning will host two presentations for parents this month on the hazards technology and…

Aubree Gallick

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Senior Portrait: Aubree Gallick

Homer News is spotlighting local high school students

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

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Nikolaevsk School starts grant-funded hydroponics program

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

Boxes of period products are stacked, each destined for a specific school. (Photo courtesy Chera Wackler)

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Group fights war on period poverty

Peninsula Period Network makes free period supplies available in local schools

Lliam Boss-Harmon outside of Physics class at Homer High School. (Photo courtesy Homer High School yearbook staff)

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Senior Portrait: Lliam Boss-Harmon

Homer News is spotlighting local high school students

Hugh Neff’s retired sled dog, Mojito, curls up in an old dogsled used during a presentation on reading and dog mushing at West Homer Elementary on Friday, Feb. 3 in Homer, Alaska. Photo courtesy of Barb Angaiak

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Iditarod top finisher visits West Homer Elementary

Musher Hugh Neff talks reading, dog mushing, perseverance

Luke Karpic and Oscar Marcou smile as they write their response to a question posed during Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Middle School Battle of the Books competition on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023, at Kenai Middle School in Kenai, Alaska. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Reading and competing

Academic contest champions literacy

Homer High School. (Homer News file photo)

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School announcements

School district risk level update and upcoming events

Zach Marley, where he can often be found, in the library at Homer High School on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023. (Photo provided by Homer High School yearbook staff)

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Senior Portrait: Zach Marley

Homer News is spotlighting local high school students

Spencer Co, Thea Person and Zach Marley participate in the Homer High School Drama, Debate and Forensics Tournament, Saturday, Jan. 14. (Photo courtesy Kammi Matson)

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Homer High School Drama, Debate and Forensics results

The Homer High School Drama, Debate and Forensics Invite, Jan. 13-14, included teams from Homer, Soldotna and Nikiski.…

Homer High School senior Leah Dunn. (Photo provided by Homer High School 2022-2023 Yearbook students)

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Senior Portrait: Leah Dunn

Homer News is spotlighting local high school students