Daisy Lee Bitter poses with a magazine cover featuring the log cache that presides over the driveway to her peony farm. The cache is particularly significant to Bitter, as her late husband, Conrad, was quite proud of it. The spruce logs were first recycled by the Bitters from the old Kenai Burn. They used them to build a garden fence, which a cow moose destroyed. After that, they asked Barrett Fletcher to recycle them again, by constructing the log cache. On Thursday, Oct. 14, 1999, the cache appeared on the front page of the Homer News. The irony of that, says Bitter, was that her husband died that same day. The cache was more recently featured in December 2011 on the cover of Alaska Magazine, trimmed with clear lights and covered in snow. -Photo by Toni Ross

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A red truck is in the woods at the side of Diamond Ridge Road last Thursday morning after the driver missed the curve on snowy roads near Sheldon Drive. A woman in the truck said she was shaken up but not hurt and waited for help.-Photo by Michael Armstrong

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Court Report

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State Trooper Report

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Homer Police Report

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Crimestoppers

Homer Police seek information on a burglary that happened sometime between 6 p.m. April 9 and 10 a.m.…

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Kachemak Emergency Services

April 6-12 Firefighters and emergency medical technicians went to one medical calls.  

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Homer Fire Report

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Anchor Point Fire and Emergency Services

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Alice Mayo Shaw

Alice Mayo Shaw  Jan. 10, 1950 – March 21, 2015 Part-time Homer resident Alice Mayo Shaw died March…

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Ryan Lee Bogie

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The Cook Inlet Regional Citizens Advisory Council (CIRCAC) holds its board meeting at 9 a.m. Friday at Cook…