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The Homer Soil and Water Conservation District is hosting an ongoing series of classes on soil and seeds just in time for spring planting.

Estuaries are ecosystems where salt and fresh water mix, creating diverse habitats for marine life, and supporting the plants, animals and people that call its shores home. With spring around the corner, the waters and shoreline of Kachemak Bay are essential feeding grounds for migrating birds winging their way north.

There’s a wild opossum in the Homer area, and not everybody is upset about it.

A fuel tank spilled from a home between the waterfront and Sterling Highway in Homer last week, raising concerns from residents who reported smelling the fuel. After getting several calls, Cook Inletkeeper followed up on the situation in their role as an organization working to protect regional watersheds.

School starts tomorrow in the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District. Students are returning to school for the third school year affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. This year, many COVID mitigation protocols that have existed in the past will not be in place, but the district is still encouraging students to be responsible.

In response to concerns about culture, transportation and enrollment, among others, parents of the small Kenai Peninsula community say they’d like to see a charter school up and running next fall. But the district says they're too late.

Funding for Alaska’s schools is always in flux. Questions of budget cuts and school consolidation are never off the table, even for the state’s biggest districts.

Kenai’s local space education center is hosting a series of workshops focused on an earthly issue: food sustainability

The Kenai Community Library is one of 60 U.S. libraries partnering with NASA this year through the NASA@MyLibrary program.The library used some of those grant funds to bring two new additions to its collection. And this week, it celebrated an astronomical milestone in the science world.

For the first time, kindergarten and first-grade students in Anchor Point are learning how to play the violin at school. That’s thanks to the nonprofit Homer OPUS, which expanded its violin program to Chapman Elementary school last month with help from grants from Carnegie Hall, the Alaska State Council on the Arts and the Rasmuson Foundation.