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    West Homer Elementary
    West Homer Elementary students stand outside the Homer Senior Center during their tour to perform Shakespeare this spring. (Photo courtesy of Sarah Brewer)
    After-school Shakespeare club gives students theatrical outlet
    By Chloe Pleznac Homer News • May 1, 2025 2:30 am

    West Homer Elementary students last month had their third annual tour to the Homer Senior Center.

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    Photo provided by Sarah Brewer
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.
    West Homer Elementary Shakespeare Club goes on tour
    By Emilie Springer • April 3, 2024 1:30 am

    Thirteen West Homer Elementary fifth and sixth grade students in the Shakespeare Club went on tour last Wednesday, March 27,…

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    Photo provided by Andy Haas
Elijah Williams, 7th grade first place chess champion, at the chess tournament at West Homer Elementary on Monday.
    West Homer Elementary hosts chess tournament
    By Emilie Springer • January 31, 2024 1:30 am

    Eighty-five students from Homer area schools in grades three through eight competed in a chess tournament at West Homer Elementary…

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    Sixth grade band and Homer Elks Club Members at West Homer Elementary on March 30, 2023, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo provided by Mercedes Harness)
    Elementary students present at talent show
    By Emilie Springer • April 6, 2023 1:30 am

    Music, dance and theater were all on display

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    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
    Iditarod top finisher visits West Homer Elementary
    By Delcenia Cosman • February 9, 2023 1:30 am

    Musher Hugh Neff talks reading, dog mushing, perseverance

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    Homer High School. (Homer News file photo)
    ‘Back to school, ring the bell’
    By Sarah Knapp • August 12, 2021 1:30 am

    The 2021-22 school year begins Aug. 17 for all KPBSD schools.

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    West Homer Elementary School teacher Becky Paul explains the use of a feather used by whoever’s turn it is to speak before a group a fifth and sixth grade students perform a demonstration of restorative justice on March 22, 2019 at the School in Homer, Alaska. This is a new aspect of Homer’s Youth Court program that focuses on getting restorative justice practices into local schools. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)
    Students learn problem solving through restorative justice practices
    By Megan Pacer • April 10, 2019 5:30 am

    Editor’s note: This story has been edited to add information and to clarify that Homer Flex School was the first…

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    Daniel Kulikov, left, and Addie Moore, center, swing while Aiden Clark, right, stands near the swings during recess Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2018 on the first day of school at West Homer Elementary in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)
    Photos: Back to school
    By Megan Pacer • August 22, 2018 5:03 pm

    Hundreds of students from the Southern Kenai Peninsula boarded buses on a foggy Tuesday morning, heading in droves back to…

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