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Homer Middle named National Blue Ribbon School
Homer Middle named National Blue Ribbon School
By Megan Pacer • October 31, 2018 4:25 pm

One local school was recently held out as a national example with two other Alaska schools as the recipient of…

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Homer area school announcements
Homer area school announcements
October 24, 2018 9:36 pm

Homer High School

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Teachers, support staff and community members, many of them wearing red, prepare to listen to the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Board of Education’s Monday, Sept. 10, 2018 meeting at Homer High School in Homer, Alaska. The board holds one meeting each year in Homer, and another in Seward. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)
Negotiations continue between school district and unions
By Victoria Petersen • October 24, 2018 9:11 pm

The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District met last week with the Kenai Peninsula Education Association and the Kenai Peninsula Educational…

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Students from Fireweed Academy listen to a presentation during an Oct. 8, 2018 field trip to the Homer Courthouse in Homer, Alaska. There, the learned more about the law, law enforcement and the inner workings of the court. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)
Fireweed students get a look at local court...
By Megan Pacer • October 24, 2018 5:35 pm

Fireweed Academy students headed back to their classrooms with a lot more knowledge of their local court system after a…

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Pictured left to right: Natalie Cooper, Cassidy Wylde, Daniel Veldstra, Audnia Carlson, Samantha Martin and Sierra Clark received academic awards from Homer Flex School for the last rotation. Not Pictured: Elvis Wood and Oriana Mahoney, who also got awards. (Photo provided)
Homer flex students awarded for academic achievement
By Staff report Homer News • October 24, 2018 3:24 pm

Homer Flex students ended a successful first rotation on Oct. 5. Six students were awarded Certificates of Excellence for their…

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Dr. Reid Brewer holds a Pacific giant octopus while doing field research in 2009. Brewer was named Campus Director of Kachemak Bay Campus, Kenai Peninsula College, on Oct. 19. (Photo provided)
Brewer named new KBC director
By Michael Armstrong • October 24, 2018 1:00 am

After a national search and three finalists, Dr. Reid Brewer, 46, of Sitka, has been selected and approved to become…

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Homer area school announcements
Homer area school announcements
October 17, 2018 9:36 pm

Homer High School

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The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Board of Education meets to discuss school safety during a work session Monday in Soldotna. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)
School board focuses on student safety
By Victoria Petersen • October 17, 2018 8:32 pm

The number of students being assessed as suicide risks is seeing an uptick in Kenai Peninsula schools.

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<span class="neFMT neFMT_PhotoCredit">Photo provided</span>                                Homer Flex School student Colten Morris is shown here with his Homer Flex Phoenix Award, which is given out monthly to students who represent the school’s values.
Students share Homer Flex Phoenix Award
By Ingrid Harald For the Homer News • October 17, 2018 1:43 pm

Seniors Colten Morris and Nikola Reutov are the recipients of the October Flex Phoenix Award. This award is given monthly…

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Kachemak Bay Campus Semester by the Bay students Sam Roth, left, and Sophia Peterson, right, help Dr. Debbie Boege Tobin, back left, and Lee Post, back right, on Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018, at the Alaska Islands and Ocean Visitor Center in Homer, Alaska, flense a subadult beluga whale found on the Deep Creek beach on Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018, near Ninilchik, Alaska. The students were removing tissue from the whale in preparation for cleaning it as part of Post’s bone articulation class. Roth visits from the University of New Hampshire, Durham, and Peterson from the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. The whale was collected under permits from the National Marine Fisheries and Alaska SeaLife Center. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
KBC students help in dead Beluga whale stranding...
By Michael Armstrong • October 17, 2018 11:09 am

Editor’s Note: This story has been updated to note that the whale was collected under permits from the National Marine…

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Students get an up close look at a salmon during an educational egg take trip to the Anchor River on Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018 in Anchor Point, Alaska. Eggs are harvested and fertilized, then sent back to each classroom so the students can watch them grow into fry. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)
Students kick off Salmon in the Classroom program...
By Megan Pacer • October 10, 2018 9:38 pm

Editor’s Note: This article has been updated to correct the organization Fish and Game gets the salmon from for the…

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Homer area school announcements
Homer area school announcements
October 10, 2018 9:36 pm

Homer High School

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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, in Kachemak Selo. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)
What’s next for K-Selo?
By Victoria Petersen • October 10, 2018 5:25 pm

Bonds to build a new school in the Old Believer village of Kachemak Selo, east of Homer, were voted down…

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