Nikolaevsk News

Tears, hugs and shouts of joy marked high school graduation ceremonies at Homer Flex, Homer High, Ninilchik and Nikolaevsk schools last week.

At 10 years, Patrick and Susan Houlihan are relative newcomers to the south end of the North Fork Road.

While Flex High School students were scratching and altering 16mm stock in Michael Walsh's artist-in-the-school residency this spring, younger students in the Quest program made film the new-fangled way: with digital cameras and computer editing.

Although Homer might be one of America's top 100 art towns, the extensive opportunities of student art shows and artists-in-the-schools here aren't always available in the outlying villages of Kachemak Bay, upper Cook Inlet and East End Road.

Holding her own in spelling competition at Nikolaevsk School, 12-year-old Kilina Klaich, a sixth-grade student, is on her way to the state spelling bee in Anchorage next week.

Needed: carpenters, plumbers, electricians, welders. "One thousand new construction workers are needed each year just to keep pace with the retirement of an aging workforce," according to information from a ...

The Russian Old Believer village of Nikolaevsk, 10 miles east of Anchor Point, celebrated its 40-year reunion with a gathering of residents -- current and past -- and local dignitaries May 26 at Nikolaevsk ...