The University of Alaska wraps up the spring semester with commencement on May 3rd. Homer’s Semester by the Bay offers a marine mammals concentration in the Fall and an environmental conservation concentration in the spring. The students in the spring program finished their semester with multiple events and KBBI’s Emilie Springer was able to observe several of these.
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Ashlyn O'Hara/KDLLIt’s been over a year since the district and its two largest employee unions swapped contract proposals. Union members say they’re frustrated with the sluggish process. -
Ashlyn O'HaraThe changes do not impact the basic management plan for Cook Inlet’s east side setnet fishery and came over the objections of local fishermen. -
Jake Dye/KDLLNikiski 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. -
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.
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The Kachemak Bay Family Clinic recently received a national grant to expand cancer prevention and reproductive health care on the Kenai Peninsula; and the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly voted to fully meet the school district's request for over 62.3 million dollars in local education funding at its meeting last night, after rejecting a push to raise that figure to the legal maximum.
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