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It might be the peak of summer, but it feels a lot more like Groundhog Day in Alaska politics.

The U.S. Coast Guard seeks comments on recertification of the Cook Inlet Regional Citizens Advisory Council. CIRCAC has applied for recertification in accordance with a provision of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA 90) which requires an annual review to ensure the citizens’ representative is successfully fulfilling its OPA 90 mandates.

The Kenai Peninsula Food Hub is expanding its reach to Anchorage with a weekly pickup in Spenard.

When Will Files sold Tech Connect to Craig and Gayle Forrest in 1997, it was because things were changing.

It’s July and the peonies on Pioneer Avenue are popping. Did you see those huge crimson buds on the corner by Cosmic Kitchen? Big fluffy blooms from WKFL Park all the way down to the Homer Council on the Arts.

Staff report

Longtime Homer News reporter Michael Armstrong has been named editor of the newspaper.

Building a food system builds community and Homer has its own flare for doing this.

Alaska Green Resources of Kenai offers online Marijuana Handler Permit Card classes. The online course is two hours long and costs $65 plus tax.

By KYRA WAGNER

Homer Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Center Executive Director Karen Zak has resigned her position as head of Homer’s main economic development and visitor services nonprofit organization.

When, after being in session for 160 days, I began to hear both the House and Senate leadership talking about passing just a budget and going home, I was reminded of a meeting I had last summer with a professor from the University of Potsdam.

The Census Bureau has a question they ask about your occupation. If more than 1 percent of the population has a certain occupation, you will see it in the list of options to choose from.

The board of directors of South Peninsula Haven House has named Ronnie Leach its new executive director effective July 1. A nonprofit serving the southern Kenai Peninsula, Haven House operates a 10-bed emergency women’s shelter for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault and their children.

Though capital projects have slowed down in Alaska because of the tight state budget, several state road and airport projects are under construction this summer or planned for the 2018 building season. Last week, the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities held a workshop last Tuesday for two 2018 road projects and then another workshop last Friday for two current jobs. Homer area residents can expect to see work done on these improvements over the next two years:

I’m not typically one to collect things, but there is one item I track down to get every new version. It’s not only a beautiful item, it’s always worth at least $20. That’s because I’m enamored with the Homer Farmers Market coins.

I’m not typically one to collect things, but there is one item I track down to get every new version. It’s not only a beautiful item, it’s always worth at least $20. That’s because I’m enamored with the Homer Farmers Market coins.

The Alaska Marine Highway System announced on Monday that the return to service of the M/V Tustumena has been delayed further.

I’m not the greatest cook, but I love to eat. Usually on Saturdays I’m running through the Farmers Market between other events so I just grab something at a booth and move on. By the end of the summer I usually will have tried just about every prepared food available.

Some people might have seen melted aluminum, charred wood and a hull filled with disgusting muck. Not Patrick O’Neill. In October 2016, when O’Neill saw the “for sale” sign on what was left of the Odic, a Bristol Bay fishing boat, he saw what it could be.