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Kari Dendurent has been hired as the principal for Homer Middle School, according to an announcement from the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District.

Doctor Donn Bennice, who heads Alaska Family Services in Palmer, told the Borough Assembly that currently, sexual assault victims from the Matanuska Valley area have to travel to an Anchorage hospital for forensic examinations.

The State of Alaska and the Mat Su Borrough have agreed to a land-swap to make way for the Point MacKenzie rail line right-of-way. Department of Natural Resources DNR issued a Final Finding and Decision for the exchange of land ownership last week.

Houstonians have one of the nation's smallest tax burdens, according to a yearly analysis by the District of Columbia.