Kaylin Holmes
Morning Edition HostKaylin Holmes is a graduate of Roosevelt University with a degree in English, with a Creative Writing concentration. After moving to the Kenai Peninsula, she joined KBBI to be a voice for the community using her lingual and drama skills to communicate local needs and stories. Kaylin has been KBBI's morning edition host since December, 2023.
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Scientists did not find harmful toxins in mussels collected from Kachemak Bay, and the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development is appealing a federal decision that could cost the state $80 million – and potentially undermine equitable funding among Alaska schools.
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The Seldovia Arts Council is offering two events this weekend: Songs on the Slough on Friday and Saturday and the Jakalof Bay 10 Miler, a run or cycle event from the Jakalof Bay dock to Seldovia, and Homer Council on the Arts held their annual meeting and announced community arts awards on Saturday July 19th.
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Patrick Dixon, retired educator, a former commercial fisherman and an ex-Alaskan who now lives in Olympia, Washington published a full-length collection of fishing poetry in June of 2025 by MoonPath Press.
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Researchers are monitoring a possible harmful algae bloom in Kachemak Bay, and Alaskans far and wide flock to the Kenai Peninsula’s rivers each July to fish for sockeye salmon.
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Several fishing spots on the Southern Kenai Peninsula will open to purse seiners today, and Anchorage illustrator and arts educator Lee Post will be in Homer offering two free workshops about drawing comics on Friday and Saturday this week.
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Dr. Steve Anderson, geologist with the University of Colorado, now living in Ninilchik, will provide a presentation on “what rocks can tell us about the future” at the KPC campus on Tuesday July 22.
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Saturday July 19th is Alaska Invasive Green Crab Awareness Day and the Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve will host a free, family-friendly molt walk, collect and identify crab molts at Bishop’s Beach, and Kachemak Bay Campus is offering a one day upcoming Geology of Kachemak Bay class by kayak with local geologist Taz Tally. Emilie Springer spoke with instructor Tally.
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Homer’s annual Peony Celebration which began in 2019, six years ago, has many local events starting in mid-June and runs through August.
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Peggy Arness has been active on the Kenai Peninsula since before Alaska statehood – and old age won’t stop that, and Kenai Peninsula school board members on Monday OK’d the latest version of the school district’s spending plan for the current fiscal year.
