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The Kachemak Bay Quilters recently started making quilts to give to local veterans, like the one pictured here during a First Friday exhibit Friday, Nov. 3, 2017 at the Homer Council on the Arts in Homer, Alaska. The quilting group donates much of its product to others. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

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In their first First Friday showcase, Kachemak Bay Quilters focus on giving back to others

Some people make art to have a creative outlet, something just for themselves. Others, like the Kachemak Bay…

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KESA medic treated 19 patients after Las Vegas mass shooting

A Homer-area first responder deployed by the American Red Cross to help in the aftermath of the Las…

Retired educator uses veterans archives to teach on WWII

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Retired educator uses veterans archives to teach on WWII

HOMER — What’s the difference between a sensor and a censor? Does it mean anything if a stamp…

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Districts starts the budget talk

For a short time Tuesday night, schools from all corners of the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District were…

Homer resident Jackie Kondak has her blood pressure taken by Meredith Morphew, a registered nurse at South Peninsula Hospital, during Homer’s inaugural Walk with a Doc event Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017 at the newly completed South Peninsula Athletic and Recreation Center in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

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Homer residents get new program, place to exercise with SPH physicians

Dozens of residents young and old traded their boots for sneakers this past weekend for Homer’s inaugural Walk…

Elementary school students take turns looking at salmon eggs that have been mixed with milt from a male coho and water to start the fertilization process during an egg take demonstration Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017 at the Anchor River in Anchor Point, Alaska. Students from all over the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District participate in the Salmon in the Classroom program, which takes them through the life cycle of salmon. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

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Students learn about salmon through annual life cycle program

Sometimes it’s nice to go back to where it all begins. At least that’s what several lower Kenai…

Seniors Justin Sumption (16) and Dawson Felde (3) come off the field celebrating with their teammates after defeating Ben Eielson High School in a playoff game Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017 at Homer High School in Homer, Alaska. The Mariners will now head to Palmer for the Division III state championship game. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

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Division III: Homer tops Eielson, Utqiagvik tops Nikiski

It’s a year of firsts for the Homer Mariners. After clinching their first ever Division III Peninsula Conference…

Homer High School Athletic Director Chris Perk gets emotional as his wife, Homer teacher Saundra Hudson, nears the finish line of a mile run during the Mariner Mile fundraising event Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017 at the track in Homer, Alaska. Hudson, an active member of the Homer running community who championed for the high school track to be put in, received a head injury after she slipped on ice while running in March. Thursday’s mile was the first time she’s run since the injury six months ago. (Photo by Homer News/Megan Pacer)

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Active runner returns to lifelong passion with Mariner Mile following accident

Those who know Saundra Hudson well would say that a mile race is nothing for the active member…

Homer Theatre owner Jamie Sutton, wearing special glasses, introduces Werner Herzog’s “Cave of Forgotten Dreams,” the first digital 3-D film shown at the 55-year-old theater for the 2011 Homer Documentary Film Festival. (Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News)

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Homer Doc Fest returns with films both that seek to enlighten

This week, film buffs will escape reality for an hour or two during the weeklong 14th annual Homer…

South Peninsula Hospital CEO Robert Letson poses for a photo in front of the hospital’s Bartlett Street entrance on July 9, 2016, for SPH’s 60th Anniversary Party. (Homer News file photo, Anna Frost)

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South Peninsula Hospital CEO will retire next summer

South Peninsula Hospital CEO Bob Letson is leaving Homer after nearly a decade. What he’ll remember most from…

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Rotary Park reopens after black bear sighting

The 52-acre Rotary Park on Funny River Road in Soldotna is open again. The park reopened Thursday after…

Two Kenai firefighters clean up a 1987 Volkswagen Westfallia camper van that caught fire Thursday, July 13, 2017 on the south beach in Kenai, Alaska. No one was in the van when it burnt, and there were no injuries. (Photo by Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion)

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Kenai Fire extinguishes vehicle blaze on beach

Members of the Kenai Fire Department made a trip to the beach Thursday night to extinguish a camper…

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Black bears prompt Rotary Park closing

Soldotna’s 52-acre Rotary Park located along Funny River Road is temporarily closed due to black bear activity. Soldotna…

A dipnetter reaches to retrieve a sockeye salmon caught in her net on the Kenai Beach on Tuesday, July 11, 2017 in Kenai, Alaska. Tuesday was the second day of the Kenai River personal-use dipnet fishery, which will remain open until July 31. The fishery was relatively quiet Tuesday, with a dipnetter hauling in a fish every once in awhile, and unlike many July weekends, there was plenty of room in the water for more participants. Sockeye salmon have been relatively slow to enter the Kenai this year, with about 94,885 past the Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s sonar as of Monday, significantly less than in 2016 but ahead of years like 2013, 2012 and 2011, according to Fish and Game data. (Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion)

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Kenai Police prepared for safe dipnet season

As business and traffic ramps up in Kenai as thousands of dipnetters arrive from all over the state,…

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Cops vs cows: Kenai police corral unruly cattle

Editor’s note: This article has been updated with details from the resident who called the cattle incident in…

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Kenai officers save life with newly acquired overdose-reducing drug

Members of the Kenai Police Department saved a life for the first time using the overdose-reducing drug Naloxone,…

Supplies and some Fourth of July accessories sit ready and waiting in a first aid tent at the base of Mount Marathon during the annual Mount Marathon Race on Tuesday, July 4, 2017 in Seward, Alaska. For the last four years, there has been a more official effort to provide first aid to runners on the mountain and at its base. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion)

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Monitoring the mayhem: First aid volunteers safeguard Seward’s Mount Marathon runners

Editor’s note: This article has been updated to correct the name of the Seward Providence Medical and Care…

Ryanna Thurman, right, finishes listening to an oration of Kenai Central High School student Kassandra Renfrow’s poem, one of the winning entries to the Pathways of Poetry contest, Saturday, July 1, 2017 on the trail at Kenai Municipal Park in Kenai, Alaska. A panel of judges chose 12 winners out of 86 student participants, whose poems about nature are placed on signs along the trail. Scanning the codes on the signs brings up a recording of the authors reading their pieces. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion)

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Pathways of Poetry connects local talent with nature

Ever wish you had something to listen to while wandering in the woods? Now, there 12 voices hidden…

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Soldotna council strengthens code on using phone while driving

Motorists making their way through Soldotna can now be found in violation of the city’s code for using…

The Swan Lake wildfire burns in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge as seen from the air June 15, 2017 near Sterling, Alaska. The 1,016-acre fire started by lightning will continue to be monitored, though it is not threatening any residents and has been downgraded in intensity. (Photo courtesy Tim Mowry, Alaska Division of Forestry)

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East Fork fire intensity downgraded, firefighters still monitoring

Firefighters are scaling back their work on the East Fork wildland fire burning in the Kenai National Wildlife…