·Homer resident Joni Whitmore, former U.S. House candidate for the Green Party, resigns her party membership and registers as a Democrat.
·The Mariner girls team dominates a nine-team invitational swim meet in Homer.
— From the issue of Sept. 14, 1995
·Bill Hanley, a teacher from Homer, is killed in a plane crash.
·Homer Mayor Wayne Kessler announces he will step down to move to Missouri.
·Gov. Bill Sheffield pledges while in Homer to withdraw Alaska’s investment in South African firms, as the country still practices racial discrimination through its apartheid laws.
— From the issue Sept. 12, 1985
·Borough planning commissioners tell the city to reconsider a contract for Campford Fisheries, which had received approval to process fish. Commissioner Betty Glick says there are “very serious internal control problems in the city of Homer.”
— From the issue of Sept. 11, 198010 years ago in the Homer News
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