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Honor lost Civil Rights leaders

Homer Farmers Market: Booths are brimming

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Homer Farmers Market: Booths are brimming

I didn’t even get to the Homer Farmers Market until 2 p.m. It used to be that if…

Cops and Courts

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Cops and Courts

Information about fire, police and troopers is taken from public records consisting of logbooks and press releases.

A patch of heart-shaped snow clings to the side of the Kenai Mountains on Tuesday, July 21, 2020, near Hope, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Best Bets

The Betster has been so busy recently that yours truly almost didn’t notice a somber fact of late…

Eve Brau, Ivy Bloom, Maggie LaRue, Kenneth Schneider, Mary Bowe, Flynn Bloom, Elsie Smith, Hannah LaRue, Ryan Eckert, Melanie Fay, Tommy Bowe, Joe Ravin, Douglas Dean, Michael Swoboda, Jordan Raymond and James Reid celebrate their victory as the winners of the Homer Softball League’s championship tournament the weekend of July 25-26, 2020 in Homer, Alaska. (Photo courtesy Heath Smith)

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Nadpoles win Homer Softball League championship tourney

The Nadpoles team came away victorious this past weekend as the winners of the Homer Softball League’s championship…

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Josie Davis

Josie Davis was born at 5:56 p.m. on July 21, 2020 at South Peninsula Hospital to Monica Davis…

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Riley Lynn White

Riley Lynn White was born at 1:35 p.m. on July 22, 2020 at South Peninsula Hospital to Elise…

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Avivah Isabella Perry

Avivah Isabella Perry was born at 10 p.m. on July 23, 2020 at South Peninsula Hospital to Vanessa…

It pays to Firewise. This structure survived the 2007 Caribou Hills Fire. (Photo provided by Kenai National Wildlife Refuge)

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Refuge Notebook: Are you Firewise?

As a young Idaho firefighter, enthusiasm and an eagerness to get dropped off on a remote mountain hillside…

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Town Crier

Set Free Alaska invites the public to an open house from 2-4 p.m. Saturday, July 25 at 51310…

In this July 2007, photo, workers with the Pebble Mine project test drill in the Bristol Bay region of Alaska, near the village of Iliamma. The Pebble Limited Partnership, which wants to build a copper and gold mine near the headwaters of a major U.S. salmon fishery in southwest Alaska, says it plans to offer residents in the region a dividend. (AP Photo | Al Grillo, File)

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Release of Pebble Mine review expected this week

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to release its final environmental review.

Pet of the Week: Biggles

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Pet of the Week: Biggles

Pet of the week

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Serenity Ava Yeaton

Serenity Ava Yeaton was born at 6:19 a.m. on July 10, 2020 at South Peninsula Hospital to Melissa…