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Graduates of Seward High School leave the gym at the end of their graduation ceremony on Wednesday, May 15.

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Seward High School graduates 30

Students were honored Wednesday, May 15, at a ceremony in their school’s gym

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Commencement season commences

Lower Kenai Peninsula schools will host graduation ceremonies May 13-16

Homer High School sophomore Sierra Mullikin, center, one of the students who participated in the community walk-in on Wednesday April 24, 2024, holds a sign in front of Homer High School in Homer, Alaska. Communities across the state of Alaska held walk-ins in support of legislative funding for public education. (Photo by Emilie Springer/Homer News)

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Homer community ‘walks in’ to support education funding

The protest called for an increase to the BSA and legislative support for public education

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Raquel Goldman, Ella Davis, Spencer Co and Leo Dykstra are photographed at the Utqiagvik airport leaving the spring AASG meeting on April 22.

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Homer High School students attend spring state student council meeting in Utqiagvik

The Alaska Association of Student Governments held their spring conference at Barrow High School in Utqiagvik from April…

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Homer High School students and teacher Erin Brege pose with an indigenous dance group in Kuranda, Australia in March 2024. The photo is on display with several others and a series of Australia guide books in the Homer High School Library.

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Homer schools go on tour over 2024 spring break

Students went to Australia, Washington, D.C., and Yellowstone National Park

Principal Doug Waclawski addresses incoming 2024 cohort of Homer Mariners at step-up day.  Photo by Emilie Springer

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Homer and Anchor Point students tour their new schools for April step-up day

Homer middle and high schools hosted a “step-up” day to introduce incoming seventh graders and freshmen ahead of…

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Homer High School and Soldotna High School gather for a collaborative jazz band concert on Wednesday April 10 in the Mariner Theatre.

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Homer and Soldotna high schools collaborate in jazz band concert in the Mariner Theatre

The Soldotna High School and Homer High School jazz bands presented a combined concert to a Homer audience…

A friendly, pumpkin-headed scarecrow stands outside the Pioneer Avenue entrance of Kachemak Bay Campus on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023 in Homer, Alaska. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)

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KBC to host open house on early college opportunities for high schoolers

On Monday, April 15, from 4 to 6 p.m. Kenai Peninsula College’s Kachemak Bay Campus will hold an…

Homer High School Yearbook students at the 2024 Great Gatsby prom. Left to right back: Ally High, Caitlyn Rogers, Minadora Reutov, Nathan Overson, William Bradshaw, Annabelle Franciscone, Sofia Loboy. Left to right front: Alaiyah Brost, Katelyn Marroquin, Suzanne Bishop, Julie Guess, Juliann Techie, Natalie Kientz, Amanda Toce

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Homer High celebrates prom with ‘The Great Gatsby’ theme

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel was set on Long Island, New York, and prom attendees dressed to the…

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Homer High School Mariner Way Award winners for the 2023-2024 school year on the library balcony of the school during their award ceremony. The list of winners in the story are standing left to right in the image.

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Homer High School announces recipients of the annual Mariner Way Award

Each Homer High School teacher selects one outstanding student per year based on exhibition of one or more…

Homer Flex High School principal Christopher Brown. Photo courtesy of Homer Flex High School

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Homer Flex School principal Chris Brown named Region III Principal of the Year

The Alaska Council of School Administrators named Homer Flex High School principal Chris Brown as Alaska Association of…

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WHE Shakespeare Club toured to the Homer Senior Citizen’s Center with their coach Sarah Brewer on March 27 to perform a variety of scenes and monologues from Shakespeare.

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West Homer Elementary Shakespeare Club goes on tour

Thirteen West Homer Elementary fifth and sixth grade students in the Shakespeare Club went on tour last Wednesday,…

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Seniors Blaise Banks, Lucas Story and Spencer Co receive recognition in annual National Merit Scholarship program and stand next to the display of past Homer High awardees at Homer High School on Tuesday March 19.

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3 Homer High seniors recognized as National Merit Scholarship finalists

Three Homer High School seniors, Spencer Co, Blaise Banks and Lucas Story, recently received recognition as finalists in…