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Andrew Marley, the 2021 Homer Winter King Salmon Tournament winner, at left, holds his prize winning 25.62-pound white king salmon on Saturday, April 17, on the Homer Spit in Homer. Helping him are his father, Jay Marley, center, and older brother Weston Marley, right. The family team included Erica Marley, not shown, all fishing on the Fly Dough. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

Sports

Winter King postponed to Sunday

The 28th annual Homer Winter King Salmon Tournament has been postponed to Sunday.

Erin McKittrick

Opinion

HEA candidate statement: Erin McKittrick

Editor’s note: Homer Electric Association Board Candidates for District 3 Troy Jones, Lonnie Lambert, Erin McKittrick and Doug…

Michael O’Meara’s cartoon for April 7, 2022.

Opinion

Letters to the Editor

HoWL thankful for Women Who Care grant

Douglas Stark (Photo provided)

Opinion

HEA Board Candidate statement: Doug Stark

By Doug Stark

Community

Eveline Rose Schuster

Eveline Rose Schuster was born at 7:30 a.m. March 29, 2022, at South Peninsula Hospital to Kim Keeler…

Community

Charlotte Ruth Needham

Charlotte Ruth Needham was born at 12:07 a.m. March 23, 2022, to Stacey and Hunter Needham. She weighed…

Gracie. (Photo by Alaska Mindful Paws)

Community

Pet of the Week: Gracie

Gracie is a beautiful domestic-long-hair dilute tortoiseshell. She is a beautiful cat full of love and spirit to…

The masthead for the Homer Weekly News.

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Years Ago

Homer happenings from years past

Point of View

Opinion

Point of View: Understanding Daylight Saving Time in Alaska

Daylight Saving Time (DST) was proposed and implemented to shift the hours of daylight so that the sun…

Point of View

Opinion

Point of View: Don’t allow directional drilling

By Michael McCarthy

Michael O’Meara’s cartoon for March 31, 2022.

Opinion

Letters to the Editor

Grateful for Artist-in-the-School support

Homer High School students rehearse on Thursday, March 24, 2022, for their production of "Schoolhouse Rocks!" The musical showed last weekend. (Photo by Mariah McGuire/Homer High School Mariner Year Book)

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Best Bets

If you’ve lived in Alaska at least one winter, you know that on Friday we’ll experience the biggest…

Tela O'Donnell Bacher speaks at a TedX talk in Anchorage on Saturday, March 19, 2022. (Photograph by Charly Savely. Used under a Creative Commons license at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0)

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‘You don’t know what you don’t know’

Homer Olympian Tela O’Donnell Bacher speaks at TEDx talks in Anchorage.