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More than 200 musicians from Homer and Kenai will perform Mozart’s Requiem this weekend. The ensemble includes the Homer High School choir, the Kenai Peninsula Community Chorus and a community orchestra. Conductors Kyle Schneider and Mark Robinson say the production allows amateur and student performers to tackle a technical choral masterpiece while offering the community a space to process grief.
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Hunter Morrison/KDLLCity Manager Terry Eubank says he’s met with other city managers and the borough mayor to talk through possible solutions, and that Kenai’s all-age nonprofit swim team has been proactive. Starting July 1, the school district will stop funding the pool. -
Ashlyn O'Hara/KDLLThe school board budget closes four schools and cuts millions of dollars in programs and employees. But board members said they’d reverse certain cuts if the assembly funded the school district at the same level as last year. -
Ashlyn O'HaraDepartment data show that, of the 20,981 fish caught through experimental beach seines in 2024, 98% were sockeye. All 16 king salmon caught were released into Cook Inlet. -
Ashlyn O'Hara/KDLLCity council members killed a proposed cap on the number of guests in a unit and passed a separate resolution removing the $50 fee for the permit Soldotna requires short-term rental operators to obtain.
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Community choruses don’t get many opportunities to perform master composers’ work with full orchestras. But this weekend’s an exception on the Kenai Peninsula; and a school funding proposal going before the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly on Tuesday could enable local school board members to reverse millions of dollars worth of budget cuts approved earlier this month.
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