Former Homer High School student and resident Emma Sulczynski will be starting her senior year the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus in the fall of 2025; the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward has admitted five harbor seal pups from across the state in the last two weeks; and the commercial lingcod season opens in Cook Inlet at midnight on July 1.

The mural of performing artists on Pioneer Avenue in front of Nomar received a new addition of characters by artist Tom Reed and the wall reaches its 40th year anniversary this summer with the original 12 characters painted in the summer of 1985; Alaska’s interlibrary loan program, an 800 number that was slated to end next week, will continue for at least another year; and the Homer City Council wants to keep a portion of the city’s sales tax in place after it finishes paying off the police station.

The Homer City Council wants to keep a portion of the city’s sales tax in place after it finishes paying off the police station. Alaska’s interlibrary loan program, an 800 number that was slated to end next week, will continue for at least another year. The Kenai Peninsula Borough will buy 80 acres of property near Seward with the goal of opening land for residential development. Kenai Peninsula residents will get their first opportunity to buy borough land using a new discount this summer.

The Kenai Peninsula Borough will buy 80 acres of property near Seward with the goal of opening land for residential development; and Kenai Peninsula residents will get their first opportunity to buy borough land using a new discount this summer.

Around 50 people marched to South Peninsula Hospital in Homer this week to protest proposed federal cuts to Medicaid, and the Sitka School District is going to ride out an unprecedented fourth veto of education funding by drawing down its reserves.

Around 50 people marched to South Peninsula Hospital in Homer this week to protest proposed federal cuts to Medicaid; and Homer’s third Summer Solstice Fair, coordinated by Sage Anderson, is underway today in the Kachemak Bay Campus parking lot on Heath street until 10 p.m.

The Kenai Peninsula Borough has its spending plan for the fiscal year that starts next month. That’s after borough assembly members passed a budget Tuesday night that lowers property tax rates and fully funds education. Homer’s third Summer Solstice Fair, coordinated by Sage Anderson, will take place in the Kachemak Bay Campus parking lot on Heath street from noon until 10 p.m. Friday June 20th.

Homer’s Pier One Theatre has been providing youth theatre camps and productions for several decades with many youth attendees as second or third generation participants. Summer 2025 offers several opportunities for youth of all ages and the most recent session about to finish up is “Production and Theatre Skills” with the students performing “Treasure Island” on the Homer Spit stage this weekend; and the federal government this week dropped charges against a Soldotna restaurant owner currently detained by immigration officials in Washington.

The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly passed its budget for the next fiscal year at its meeting last night. The federal government this week dropped charges against a Soldotna restaurant owner currently detained by immigration officials in Washington.

A group of Kenai Peninsula residents wants to recall the peninsula’s nine school board members; seismic activity has increased at Iliamna Volcano, with frequent small earthquakes recorded early Saturday morning; and the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly will hold a final public hearing tonight on the borough’s proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year.