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…
The Shorebird Festival goers have come and gone after the weekend, during which they enjoyed temperatures in the mid-60s, bright…
The birds have been back in town for a couple of weeks, surely but surely arriving in time for Homer’s…
If it slipped your mind, like it almost did the Betster’s, this serves as an official reminder that Mother’s Day…
If you drove out to the Spit this week and happened to see a cluster of people huddled against the…
As the Betster writes this, 93 days have passed and the Alaska Legislature still hasn’t passed a budget or solved…
You know the rhyme, “April showers bring May flowers?” Not current in this time zone, as television broadcasters used to…
Periodically the Homer News gets press releases from Outside media flacks pitching a story. Usually they went us to cover…