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A Homer local has been named 2022 Historian of the Year by the Alaska Historical Society. Tom Kizzia is a journalist and author who came to the Kenai Peninsula nearly five decades ago. He spent three years with the Homer News in the late 1970s before moving to the Anchorage Daily News, where he worked for 25 years.

Voting for this year’s midterm elections started Oct. 24 at city halls, community centers, churches and election offices all over Alaska. Voters will rank their favorite candidates for governor, U.S. House and Senate, and state House and Senate.

Living in Alaska means living with the unexpected, whether it be an emergency, accident or natural disaster. Being prepared for the unpredictable is the goal of a new year-long series of emergency preparedness events, hosted by the Seldovia Village Tribe.

KBBI welcomed a new reporter this week following the departure of Desiree Hagen. Corinne Smith hails from Oakland, California, where she was a reporter and producer for KPFA Radio in Berkeley. She’s reported for radio stations in Southeast and most recently in Bristol Bay — starting as a summer reporter at KFSK in Petersburg, then in Haines at KHNS and as a fish reporter with KDLG in Dillingham for the Bristol Bay Fisheries Report.

Two community members — Samantha Cunningham and Thea Person — will be honored with this year’s Lifelong Learner Award by the Friends of the Homer Public Library on Saturday. The nonprofit has organized the celebration of lifelong learning since 2009.

Homer resident Lucas Wilcox was traveling on a train between the Ukrainian war zone and Turkey Wednesday night, switching gears from providing food relief to refugees of the Ukrainian war to feeding survivors of the massive 7.8-magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks that devastated Turkey and Syria earlier this month.

When Homer-based artist Brianna Allen became pregnant with her second child, she started to notice something: a lack of stories, told by mothers, that honestly addressed motherhood. So, she decided to do something about it and created the MOMologues Collective.

Winter in Alaska can bring challenges for both humans and their animal friends. And learning how to keep pets warm and stay away from wildlife is important, according to local officials.

Homer News editor and reporter Michael Armstrong is retiring Friday after more than 23 years with the paper. Armstrong made his way to Alaska from Florida four decades ago, and in May of 1999, he started working at the Homer News as an editorial assistant, typing letters to the editor, compiling Town Crier and Cops and Courts, and working the front desk taking classified ads, subscription orders and rolling quarters. He became a reporter for the paper in 2003 and then its editor in 2017.

The group behind the Homer Forest Charter School has pushed back their planned start from fall 2023 to fall 2024 to have more time to secure a facility.