The Homer City Council passed a series of measures, postponed two items and heard from visitors at its meeting last night, Pope Francis died last week at the age of 88 in Vatican City, leaving the Catholic church’s most powerful position vacant, and two people are dead, and one person is seriously injured after a small plane crashed Monday afternoon near the community of Nanwalek on the southern Kenai Peninsula.
A decades-in-the-making pipeline that would transport natural gas between the North Slope and the Kenai Peninsula now has a new majority owner. Also, the annual Oil Spill Response training for fishing vessels starts on April 1st through the 4th in Kodiak, April 7th through the 10th in Homer, and April 13 and 14 in Seward, with additional training later in the month in Cordova, Valdez, and Whittier.
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