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Joni Wise paints Paul Banks Elementary School second grader Xoe Bremicker’s face at the carnival last Saturday.-Photo by Anna Frost, Homer News
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February 18, 2016 11:01 am

Are there any sociology graduate students out there looking for a dissertation topic? Oh brilliant minds, if you haven’t figured…

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February 10, 2016 1:59 pm

Why, hello there friend of 3.57 degrees of separation. We don’t know each other yet, but according to a recent…

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Clouds mask the view across Kachemak Bay, though sunshine  poked through briefly on Tuesday. It is unknown if any marmots saw their shadows on Alaska’s Marmot Day.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News
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February 4, 2016 11:43 am

The Iniskin quake so shook up the Betster last week that yours truly totally forgot about one of the most…

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The West Homer Elementary School Brickheads celebrate at the Lego Robotics Tournament in Anchorage last weekend. The team won the Homer tournament and placed 28th — but won first place for Core Values, the teamwork award. From left to right are Seamus and Theo McDonough, Casey Anderson,  assistant coach Jonah Brost, Aiden Brost, Ryan Carroll, Victor Romanko, coach Zach Miller, Cecilia Fitzpatrick, Thatcher Lowney and Eric Marshall.  Not pictured is Rayna Lowther.  -Photo by Erica Fitzpatrick
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January 28, 2016 11:22 am

Remember KLM Flight 876, the jet that went through the Redoubt Volcano ash in 1989? All four engines shut down…

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Homer Mayor Beth Wythe, center, shakes Homer High School Activity Director and head wrestling coach Chris Perk’s hand as she recognizes the championship Homer High School Mariners wrestling team at Monday night’s Homer City Council Meeting at the Cowles Council Chambers, Homer City Hall. Wythe also honored Perk for being selected as Alaska Wrestling Coach of the Year and assistant wrestling coach Bubba Wells for being selected as Alaska Assistant Wrestling Coach of the Year.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News
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January 14, 2016 10:29 am

Next Monday honors the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., widely considered the man who inspired the modern Civil Rights movement….

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Homer High School Nordic ski team members gather together at the finish line at a recent meet. Kenai Peninsula schools compete in the Homer Invitational Ski Meet starting at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Ohlson Mountain Lookout Ski Trails. Recent rainy weather didn’t ruin the trails in the Homer hills.-photo by Alan Parks
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January 7, 2016 10:12 am

Seven days into the new year, and already it’s shaping up to be a doozy. To recap the news so…

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Seashells and kelp decorate a driftwood tree at Mariner Park on the Homer Spit. An unknown artist made the sculpture, and beach walkers have been embellishing the tree since it was first put up earlier this month.-photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News
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December 31, 2015 10:17 am

As our planet rounds the point on its revolution that we arbitrarily call a new year, you might think to…

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Lights and holiday figurines brighten up a home on Tuesday night near Mile 15 East End Road. -Photo by Michael Armstrong
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December 24, 2015 8:47 am

By one of those odd coincidences, today marks not just Christmas Eve, but Eid Milad ul-Nabi, the birthday of the…

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Kachemak Bay Campus instructor Lee Post makes a final adjustment to “Belugie,” a beluga whale skeleton, before it was hung on the ceiling of Bayview Hall last Friday. Post taught a class on whale articulation this semester, and students prepared and put together the skeleton. It’s the second whale hung at KBC and the sixth in Homer.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News
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December 17, 2015 10:31 am

Congratulations, citizens. If you’re a new Alaska resident and you’ve stuck it out this long, hurrah. On Monday you will…

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Judy Mullikin sweeps snow off the labyrinth at St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church last Saturday. The church at 619 Sterling Highway holds a Labyrinth Meditation walk at 4:30 p.m. every Saturday during advent. Following the walk, the Rev. Judith Lethin of Seldovia leads a sung Compline service. -photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News
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December 10, 2015 11:07 am

On Monday the Homer City Council passed the budget for 2016, thus showing that unlike the Alaska Legislature they can…

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November 25, 2015 10:16 am

Almost 400 years ago in September 1620, 102 immigrants on the Mayflower landed in Plymouth, Mass. Over the winter, almost…

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November 19, 2015 9:52 am

We Alaskans know about darkness. We know about the chill that descends upon us, sucking joy from life. The events…

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Homer City Council member Heath Smith takes the oath of office at a special meeting on Monday. Smith was elected in a run-off election on Nov. 3 when he defeated incumbent council member Beauregard Burgess. In final election results, Smith won with 401 votes, or 64 percent, to 227, or 36 percent, for Burgess. With 633 out of 4,520 registered voters, the election turnout was 14 percent. The council also selected council member David Lewis to be Mayor Pro-Tempore.-photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News
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November 12, 2015 9:44 am

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