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Creating home wherever you are

How do you find a home when you find yourself away from the land you’ve grown up in?For Native Alaskans who have left the village for the big city, for young Alaskans who have moved to the Lower 48 to find careers and for new...
by MICHAEL ARMSTRONG
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Bunnell gets $150,000 grant for Old Town art project

ArtPlace America has awarded Bunnell Street Arts Center a $150,000 grant for Old Town AIR, an artist in residence program. Old Town AIR seeks to inspire and create artistic events in the Old Town area of Homer. The project will...
Arts

Registration now open for Young Writers Workshop

Kachemak Bay Campus is holding registration for the annual Young Writers Workshop, held as part of the 2013 Kachemak Bay Writers Conference. The workshop is 9 a.m. to noon June 14 at the campus. Visiting writer, novelist and teacher...

Backyard

Backyard

Nothing to do? Not this summer!

“Ah, mom and dad, there’s nothing to do.”
by MICHAEL ARMSTRONG
Backyard

21st Annual Shorebird Festival: birds might be bouncing back

If visitors to the 21st annual Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival thought they might have been skunked last Thursday with relatively few western sandpipers showing up, all they had to do was wait a day.
by MICHAEL ARMSTRONG
Backyard

Halibut Derby Offers More Than One Prize

When angler James “Jimmie” Peeples of Chico, Calif., hooked into a 323.2-pound halibut last August, he and his fishing buddies “were amazed, flipping out,” he told the Homer News at the time. “I couldn’t believe it.”...
by McKibben Jackinsky

Best Bets

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Homer’s Best Bets

Just to continue this bizarre spring, it snowed 3 inches in the hills last Thursday. For you flatlanders, that’s why you saw cars around town that looked like they had time tripped from March. Some of the cars might have still had studs...
Best Bets

Homer’s Best Bets

We silly humans think that just because we set a schedule the world will follow. Hah! You know how that studded tire deadline worked out. The snow was supposed to be gone by May 1, but that didn’t happen, so the deadline got...
Best Bets

Homer’s Best Bets

Yowzah, has spring finally arrived in this year’s Not Current In This Time Zone season.The other day the Betster broke out into a smile at the sound of a floatplane taking off on Beluga Lake. Yee haw! The ice broke up....

Seawatch

Seawatch

Seawatch

Homer group receives grant for electronic monitoring

Homer-based North Pacific Fisheries Association has received a $147,400 National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Fisheries Innovation Fund grant for a two-year project to use electronic monitoring in the pot and...
by Cristy Fry
Seawatch

New research: All fisheries important to food security on peninsula

The Kenai River Sportfishing Association has used elements of a recently released study about food security on the Kenai Peninsula to assert that commercial fishing should be curtailed in favor of sport and...
by Cristy Fry
Seawatch

Cod pot fleet hauls in gear with quota in water

For the first time since its inception, the state-waters Pacific cod pot fleet quit fishing with a substantial amount of the quota still in the water.The boats have all hauled in their gear, leaving 700,000 pounds in the water....
by Cristy Fry

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