Bird festival presents fun, lots of life lessons
Soon-to-be high school graduates may be getting more advice than they bargained for at this time of year, but we hope they'll bear just a little more. It just so happens this week's 16th annual Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival provides a great playbook for graduates as they embark on new life adventures. For example:
Bird nerds of the world unite: it's your weekend I am a bird nerd.
OK, I am a birder, to use the more PC term. I'll say it loud and say it proud, though.
Protect our songbirds; keep nature's music alive
Another spring is almost here. Soon the sandhill cranes will be returning from their immense journeys, and dancing again upon our fields with joyful cries. Every April 20 almost to the day I can count on their arrival. Soon after will come the sparrows, the thrushes, the warblers also "on time" quietly showing up one morning, after many nights of flying, from a land far, far away, waking us with a song they carried with them for thousands of miles.
A new approach to property taxes, but avoiding disparities of Prop 13
What adds to the beauty of the Homer area is the abundance of homeowners who own a few acres or more of undeveloped land giving the landscape a rural, relatively uncrowded look. As Mossy Kilcher pointed out in a recent letter, many homeowners intend to keep their elbow room just as it is. But while their land may not be changing much, their recent property tax assessments certainly are, threatening their financial ability to maintain the status quo. The irony is that those who don't develop their land and thereby maintain Homer's bucolic setting are paying a price (i.e., higher taxes) as the value for nearby subdivided and developed land continues to escalate.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Higher costs could be catalyst for making changes for better life
Third time's the charm when it comes to tagging halibut
Thursday, April 24, 2008
For a change, some good budget news comes out of Juneau
Several items of interest soon before the assembly
Joy in life comes when we stop planning, start enjoying the now
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Arts scholarship program enriches entire community
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