Some of you seemed surprised recently when a big howling rainstorm blew in over town last week. Whoa! How did…
Hurrah! Congratulations, Betsters. You’ve survived the big August primary election. After weeks of debates, robocalls, push polls and campaign mailings,…
If you’ve been paying attention to nature lately, you might have noticed that all the little birds born last spring…
Why is it that just when you get into the groove of summer it starts to end? The signs are…
For the past two weeks as the Republicans and Democrats have selected their presidential candidates, it has been nonstop political…
The other day while shopping the Betster noticed a disturbing trend. S-c-h-o-o-l supplies are on sale. For you carefree kids…
Remember in winters past when it snowed so much you had to keep a snow shovel inside the front door…
Recently in the newsroom we got talking about an issue once not a problem in Homer: traffic. OK, we might…
Here’s the problem of living in a small town that grows by a few hundred people in the summer. For…
While driving home to Chez Betster, yours truly passed a caravan of Land Rover campers with French flag decals that…
If you lived in Homer on Dec. 21 and wondered where the heck all that daylight had gone, cheer up….
Forget the cruise ship passengers, the foreign adventurers and the production staffs of Alaska’s 47 reality TV shows. As most…
Recently one of our hard working reporters took a vacation to Paris. Sacre bleu! It’s a good thing the International…
