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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.

Pet of the Week: Gloria

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Pet of the Week: Gloria

Pet of the week

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Police say Seward homicide victim was lured, beaten

Five people have been charged in the Aug. 25 death of Preston Atwood.

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Matilda Rosa Sechler

Matilda Rosa Sechler was born at 8:55 p.m. on Nov. 18, 2019 at South Peninsula Hospital to Sarah…

From left to right: Karl Wickstrom, Eddie Robinett, Daisy Kettle, Sam Cary, Maddox Berg, Catherine Conner and Kelli Bishop pose for a photo after being awarded this quarter’s Mariners on the Move in this undated photo at Homer High School in Homer, Alaska. Not pictured: Skyler Rodriguez. (Photo courtesy Paul Story)

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Mariners on the Move

The most recent recipients of the Mariners on the Move award have been announced.

Homer area school announcements

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Homer area school announcements

Homer High School

City offers tours of its facilities

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City offers tours of its facilities

Ever wondered what exactly goes on inside the local police station, or how things work at the water…

Best Bets

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Best Bets

The Betster has been known to get a big grumpy when people put up the holiday decorations before…

Years Ago

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Years Ago

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Letters to the Editor

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Letters to the Editor

Family of Duffy Murnane thanks community for continued help and support

Point of View: ‘Being Community’ means being like Lizzy

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Point of View: ‘Being Community’ means being like Lizzy

Lizzy was a common prairie woman, daughter of Norwegian parents who immigrated with little to their name except…

The Seafarers Memorial parking lot is mostly empty on Oct. 25, 2019, on the Homer Spit in Homer, Alaska. The city has applied for a conditional use permit to fill in and extend the parking lot to the left in this photo, or toward the beach. The angled parking spaces by the Homer Spit Road also would be removed except in front of the Cannery Row Boardwalk.(Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

Opinion

Point of View: Think twice before destroying one of the last remaining natural beaches at the end of the spit

No one will argue that parking on the Spit has been a constant problem. Over the years, the…

Point of View: Lower Cook Inlet should have moratorium on petroleum development

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Point of View: Lower Cook Inlet should have moratorium on petroleum development

This past August, Hilcorp made a presentation at Land’s End in Homer to describe the seismic testing they…