Port Graham News

Having seen Alaska once, Riley and Jennifer Justice wanted to return. The opportunity came when the Central Michigan University graduates were hired as teachers by Tim Peterson, human resource director for the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District.

Governor to ask for construction money Gov. Parnell is advocating a new spending program to create construction jobs across the state by addressing the backlog of deferred maintenance projects for state-owned facilities.

Before 10 a.m. Friday morning, it was 15 down and 6,085 to go. Homer Electric Association's "Kick in-Can" program aims to put 7,000 compact fluorescent bulbs in its members' hands in exchange for incandescent bulbs.

Randy Arndt describes the home-heating system offered by Alaska GeoEnergy of Homer.

Immunizations against H1N1, commonly known as swine flu, are being given to students of the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District, according to Naomi Walsworth of Homer, the district's health services coordinator.

HOMER TRIBUNE/Naomi Klouda - Malania Kehl, the eldest resident in Nanwalek, knows many traditional stories that pass along pieces of history, as well as cultural knowledge.

By Naomi Klouda Homer Tribune The 500 clients enrolled in Homer's Women and Infant Children program will see a difference this month when they shop for local foods with WIC certificates.

More than 40 volunteers collected 31 bags of trash from harbors in Homer, Seldovia, Nanwalek and Port Graham earlier this summer for Cook Inletkeeper's Kachemak Bay Clean Harbors Day, held Aug.

This isn't your daddy's school system. Or your mama's. Just ask Naomi Walsworth, supervisor of the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District's Health Services.

A field near Port Graham hides the marks of a sizable coal town that was established in the 1850s.

Port Graham elder Simeon Kvasnikoff remembers the historical stories passed down, among them one that describes life at Coal Village in the 1850-60's when the Russian-American Company established a coal mine, working several sites in the area.

When the power went out in Seldovia, the go-to guy who fired up the town's emergency generator was Gerald W. Willard, a 31-year employee of Homer Electric Association.

Judging by their achievement of standards determined by the federal No Child Left Behind Act, 35 of 44 schools -- 79.5 percent -- in the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District made the grade and nine did not during the 2008-2009 school year, according to information released Friday by the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development.

When the power went out in Seldovia, the go-to guy who fired up the town's emergency generator was Gerald W. Willard, a 31-year employee of Homer Electric Association.

There's been a crimp in the schedule of five people blazing the trail for a 2,000-mile personal watercraft race from Anchorage to Bristol Bay.

For the first time that anyone can remember, Port Graham will honor five students completing their high school years at this village school on lower Cook Inlet.