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Editor’s note: The story on a sentencing hearing for Demarqus Green has been updated on Aug. 21, 2015,…

Friend saves garden from abandonment

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Friend saves garden from abandonment

W ho would have thought that I would have to spend a chunk of August in Detroit? That’s…

The Arts in Brief

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The Arts in Brief

Sklyanskaya presents piano concert Chicago pianist Olga Sklyanskaya performs in concert at 2 p.m. Aug. 30 at Bunnell…

Reggae musician Pato Banton plays 10 p.m. today at the Alibi and 8:30 p.m. Friday at Ravenfest, a two-day music festival being held near Whiskey Gulch north of Anchor Point.-Photo by Claudia Passos

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Legendary reggae artist performs tonight at Alibi

Legendary reggae artist Pato Banton comes to Homer this week. Banton’s tour of Alaska begins at The Alibi…

Life-saving tips: Learn to swim, wear a PFD

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Life-saving tips: Learn to swim, wear a PFD

Last Monday I opened a voicemail from my compadre Turk. He was so riled up that residual smoke…

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Nanwalek students get their new iPads

Nanwalek School’s 80 students finally received their iPads on Tuesday. The long-awaited celebration was not a quiet one. …

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Paul Banks says thanks

Paul Banks staff and students would like to thank the Homer Animal Friends for providing our school with…

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Legal pot helps rather than harms

In the Alaska Dispatch News, Sunday, Aug. 9, we read “NYC sees surge in synthetic pot use, with…

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Please respect private property

We would like to ask people to please honor our private property at Otter Cove. For some reason…

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DMV experience pleasant surprise

Last week I made the dreaded trip to the local DMV office to renew the long-expired registration on…

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Bears, humans both win

Nobody likes to get in a fight over food with a bear; the bear usually wins. To help…

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Everyone needs to work together to make roads as safe as possible

Mr. Celtic raises important concerns in his opinion piece published on Aug. 13 about the Homer Shares the…

A group of U.S. Coast Guard wives wait at the Pioneer Dock on Thursday to greet their husbands after a four-month deployment on the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Hickory. From left to right are Melissa Parker, Nicole Ziemba, Kaitlyn Burns, Emily Davis, Lyndsay McGarran, Carly Robinson, Madison Russell and Laura Hupp.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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