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Eighty-five students from Homer area schools in grades three through eight competed in a chess tournament at West Homer Elementary School on Friday.

The study looked at the remains of ancient people buried in the Andean Altiplano of Peru about 9,000 years ago.

While 2023 saw the closest thing to a “return to normalcy” since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, actual COVID numbers and hospitalizations were reported to be rising for the first few months of the year before dropping to unprecedented lows. With a drastic decrease in demand for on-site tests and vaccines, the South Peninsula COVID-19 testing and vaccine site closed its doors, giving way to at-home testing and treatment at the regular hospital facilities.

A discussion on the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict hosted Friday at Kachemak Bay campus drew a standing-room only crowd to a Pioneer Hall conference room, with overflow listeners tuning in from the campus commons via a screen display.

The Kachemak Bay Campus of the University of Alaska will host a five-member open-format conversation about the Israel-Palestine conflict in Pioneer Hall on Friday, Dec. 15 at 6:30 p.m. The discussion will be moderated by Jeff Meyers, associate professor of history.