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The work of Anchorage artists Jonathan Green and Alanna DeRocchi is on display at the Kenai Fine Art Center in Kenai, Alaska, on Monday, April 29, 2019. (Photo by Brian Mazurek/Peninsula Clarion)

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‘Of Stone’ exhibit highlights humanity’s impact on earth

The exhibit will be on display at the Kenai Fine Art Center until the end of May.

House Republicans huddle for a decision on the opening day of the 31st Session of the Alaska Legislature on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)

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House Republicans announce support for K-12 funding

“This is a commitment to support the full base amount through this entire budget process.”

(File)

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Alaska marijuana regulators to consider changes to onsite pot use

The board would need to get public comment on proposed changes to the rules.

An aerial view of a brush fire in Ninilchik on Saturday. (Photo by Tim Whitesell/Division of Forestry)

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Peninsula heads into fire season

Ninilchik fire is 12th to occur in region since the start of fire season

RJ Nelson’s work of art is part of the Choir for Peace show on display before the May 2 and 3, 2019 concerts in the Homer High School Commons in Homer, Alaska. (Photo provided)

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‘Choir for Peace’ will be community art, music event

Performs at 7 p.m. May 3 and 4 at the Mariner Theatre in Homer.

Seward to welcome new city manager

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Seward to welcome new city manager

Seward City Council approved a three-year contract with Scott Mezaros.

Sen. Peter Micciche, R-Soldotna, works a calculator as he and Sen. Bert Stedman, R-Sitka, listen to public testimony on the state budget in the Senate Finance Committee hearing on Friday, April 12, 2019. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)

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Capitol priorities

As session heads into final weeks, Sen. Micciche talks budget, crime bills and PFD

(File photo)

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Schools briefs for the week of April 29-May 5

What’s happening this week

The Alaskan Hotel & Bar is featured in the first episode of the new Travel Channel TV show “Portals to Hell.” (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)

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New TV show looks for ghosts at Alaskan Hotel

Did people check out but never leave?

The Alaska State Capitol in April 2018. (Juneau Empire File)

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Senate panel puts full dividend in budget draft with caveat

The House’s version of the budget did not include a dividend amount.

Bruce Wall, a planner with the Kenai Peninsula Borough, answers Kalifornsky residents’ questions about the creation of a new advisory planning commission for the area, on Wednesday, at the Betty J. Glick Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly Chambers in Soldotna. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)

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Kalifornsky on track for its own advisory planning commission

The commissions help advise the borough on borough-owned lands.

Rep. Sarah Vance, R-Homer, questions Angela Rodell, Chief Executive Officer of the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation, during a House State Affairs Committee meeting about House Bill 139 at the Capitol on Thursday, April 25, 2019. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)

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Here’s some of the changes lawmakers are proposing to the PFD

PFD talks begin in House, Senate.

Sen. Bert Stedman, R-Sitka, listens to Finance Division Director David Teal answers questions from the Senate Finance Committee on the state’s budget at the Capitol on Thursday, April 25, 2019. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)

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Will the Legislature finish on time? Senate leaders are optimistic

Some lawmakers aren’t happy with progress so far.

The covered porch at the end of the Windjammer Suites building at 320 W. Pioneer Ave. is shown in a photograph taken April 23, 2019, in Homer, Alaska. In 2014 the Homer Advisory Planning Commission granted a conditional use permit for the porch to be in a 20-foot setback, a decision citizen activist Frank Griswold attempted to appeal before the Homer Board of Adjustment. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Alaska Supreme Court finds Griswold has standing in zoning case

The City will be incorporating the court’s interpretation in all of Homer’s pending proceedings.

(File)

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Soldotna library receives donation

The donation will be split up for several different uses.

The cast of “Newsies” sings during rehearsal on Wednesday, April 24, 2019, at the Nikiski High School auditorium. (Photo by Joey Klecka/Peninsula Clarion)

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Nikiski students ‘Seize the Day’

‘Newsies’ comes to Nikiski High School

Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Superintendent Sean Dusek stands next to BP Teachers of Excellence honorees, Wendy Todd, a teacher at Paul Banks Elementary in Homer, Julie Doepken, a teacher at William H. Seward High School in Seward, Martha Fleming of Seward High School and Jennifer Hornung, a teacher at Nikiski Middle/High School at the BP Teachers of Excellence reception in Anchorage, Alaska on Wednesday, April 24, 2019. (Photo courtesy of BP Teachers of Excellence.)

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Peninsula educators recognized as BP Teachers of Excellence

Thirteen teachers across the state were awarded the teachers of excellence award.

The Kachemak Selo Middle-High School building sits against a backdrop of the ridge separating the village from the Kenai Peninsula Borough road system Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Kachemak Selo. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

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K-Selo grants gets two-year extension

The borough has two more years to find around $5 million to fulfill the 35% match required.

Rep. Andi Story, D-Juneau, listens to Patience Frederiksen, State Librarian and Head of Library Developement, during a hearing for House Bill 75 on increasing school internet speed at a House Education Committee meeting on Monday, April 1, 2019. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)

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Juneau representative’s bill makes getting jobs easier for veterans

Even the House’s biggest contrarian supported it.

Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, gives a presentation to the Kenai and Soldotna Chambers of Commerce during a luncheon at the Kenai Visitor’s Center in Kenai, Alaska on Tuesday, April 23, 2019. (Photo by Brian Mazurek/Peninsula Clarion)

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Rep. Don Young gives update on DC

Young took questions on national issues including immigration, impeachment and the Mueller Report.