This winter, a group of middle-schoolers at West Homer Elementary are putting aside hockey sticks and skis in favor of a more unusual team sport: building robots. The group of 10 sixth-graders calls themselves the “Brickheads.”
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Kenai Borough Assembly upholds invocation policy
The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly is standing behind their controversial invocation policy.
Better Business Bureau warns of ‘porch pirates’ stealing packages across Alaska
Michelle Tabler, the Alaska Regional Manager for the Better Business Bureau, has received numerous reports of so-called “porch pirates” across Alaska this month.
New squirrels on the block? Not so fast, researchers say
Biologists assumed that settlers brought Arctic ground squirrels to Gulf of Alaska Islands around the turn of the 20th century. A new research study, however, has turned this notion on its head.
ACLU sues Kenai Peninsula Borough over religious invocation policy
The ACLU of Alaska is following through with its threat to sue the Kenai Peninsula Borough over its invocation policy.
Kenai Borough Assembly upholds invocation policy, Homer residents testify
The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly revisited the topic of invocations at their Dec. 6 meeting. For the last four months, they have debated whether to restrict who is allowed to give the invocation, or prayer, that begins each Assembly meeting.