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Homer Senior Center residents will pay more for meals and housing to help the facility address a budget deficit and back taxes. The board approved a $200 increase for monthly meal plans and a $50 rent hike for all units.
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Ashlyn O'HaraThe school district wants an inflationary bump to what it got from the borough last year. That still comes with millions in cuts to programs and staff. That’s why others are asking the borough for the maximum funding allowable under state law, also called the ‘cap.’ -
Ashlyn O'Hara/KDLLThe proposal comes about two weeks after city officials told council members about a need for more city revenue to pay for projects. -
Ashlyn O'Hara/KDLLCrews have already resumed work on the Cooper Landing Bypass Project. Other ongoing projects include the second phase of improvements to the Kenai Spur Highway between Swires and Sports Lake roads. -
University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service.A new disaster relief assistance program helps Alaska peony farmers purchase new rootstock to replant.
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Seward’s historic Mount Marathon race is hosting an online auction for 6 race slots so that runners who didn’t make it into the original lottery can start to make plans a little sooner in advance than at the traditional auction that takes place the evening before the race; the Small Town and Rural Student College Network is a consortium of thirty-two universities and colleges dedicated to helping students from small-town and rural America enroll in an undergraduate program of their choice; and school funding again took center stage at this week’s Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly meeting in Seward.
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