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At the end of January, scientists with the Alaska Veterinary Pathology Services (AVPS) were dropped at McDonald Spit near Seldovia in Kachemak Bay to necropsy a deceased baby beluga whale. AVPS partners with NOAA as a Stranding Network partner when the federal agency receives a stranding report. KBBI’s Emilie Springer reports the following details.

Kachemak Bay Recovery Connection hosts an overdose awareness session tonight, offering hands-on Naloxone training to help residents act confidently during high-stress emergencies.

The National Weather Service expects up to eight inches of snow, with the heaviest amounts north of Anchor Point.

Most schools will be closed on Thursday and Friday, though some Russian village schools follow a different schedule.

The Homer Foundation begins the 26th year of administering the City of Homer Grants Program. Over the past 25 years more than 1 million dollars has been awarded to local nonprofits to provide essential and general programs and services provided to the Homer community. Emilie Springer spoke with Kayla Rivers with the Homer Foundation for more details on the program.

Homer’s Porcupine Theater is celebrating its first anniversary after a year of steady growth and more than 800 monthly members. The community-backed venue is leaning on a subscription model and flexible programming to weather industry-wide challenges.

The event was held to show support for people in Minneapolis and to protest recent actions by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency.

Homer High School senior Marina reports on recent Poetry Out Loud competition and talks to award recipient Robby Wilson who shares a reading of "The Conquer Worm" by Edgar Allan Poe.

People may notice that Homer protestors are starting to follow a national “red hat trend”: “originally a symbol of resistance to Nazi occupation that began gaining traction in Minnesota” just a couple days after Renée Good was fatally shot in Minneapolis, Minnesota, by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent. Emilie Springer talked with Tracy Nordstrom for more details on the current trend and history of the red hats.

On Friday evening, January 30th, the Porcupine Theater hosted a presentation of the film “The Nettle Dress” based on textile artist Allen Brown’s endeavor who spent seven years making a dress from foraged nettles as a “medicine to survive the death of his wife” in the South Downs, England near Brighton. The event opened with a presentation from local nettle artist Carla Klinker and her journey working with the fibers from local plants. Klinker spoke to KBBI’s Emilie Springer about her own adventure learning about the process and art of working with the plants.