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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Nikiski Middle/High School’s Bulldog Theater opens ‘Anything Goes’ on May 1. The show features romance and humor on a cruise ship crossing the Atlantic Ocean, and marks the final performance for some of the school’s seniors.
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City 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.
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The 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.
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Department 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.
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An avalanche warning is in effect for a section of central Alaska and the Kenai Peninsula; Homer’s port and harbor has secured more than $11.2 million in federal funds to replace its oldest harbor infrastructure; and the University of Alaska wraps up the spring semester with commencement on May 3rd.
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