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Ranger Nick Longobardi recording GoPro footage for Facebook content to bring sights from the refuge into your homes. (Photo by MJ Hendren/USFWS)

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Refuge Notebook: Adaptation as consistency?

This year has been one for the books. Many of us had to change and adapt the way…

Frida Cattlo (Photo courtesy of Alaska Mindful Paws)

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Pet of the week: Frida Cattlo

Frida Catlo is a 1-year-old female cat so awesome we’re making another pitch for her to be adopted.…

Michael O'Meara's cartoon for May 27, 2021.

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Student writing was excellent

The Homer Spit and the Kenai Mountains catch the afternoon sunshine of Monday, May 17, 2021, as seen from West Hill in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Best Bet

The awesome weather we’ve been having this past week has done wonders to ease a lot of the…

This sketch shows Homer artist Brad Hughes' design for "Loved and Lost," a memorial bench to honor Anesha "Duffy" Murnane, a Homer woman missing since Oct. 17, 2019. It also will draw attention to missing women and children in Alaska. (Drawing courtesy of Brad Hughes)

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Arts in brief

Family commissions memorial bench for missing daughter

On Saturday, May 15, 2021, Lulu Hawkins, age 6 holds up her pottery tour purchase: a David Kaufmann mug at his studio in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by David Kaufman)

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Homer pottery tour returns

After a year hiatus, Homer’s annual Pottery Studio Tour returned to bring fun, beauty and education to ceramic…

The beauty and expansiveness of the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge seen from an unmanned aircraft in the upper Kenai River and Skilak Lake. (Photo by Mark Laker, USFWS)

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Refuge Notebook: Conserving wild places and wild things

I don’t know about you, but public lands play an important role in my life. They are where…

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Otto Robert Tarnowske VII

Otto Robert Tarnowske VII was born at 8:25 p.m. May 14 at South Peninsula Hospital to Shiloh Joyce…

Michael O'Meara's cartoon for May 20, 2021.

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Point of View: The NBA’s Most Valuable Players

Editor’s note: This Point of View is part of a series of persuasive essays written by students in…

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Point of View: There’s no more need for the SAT

Editor’s note: This Point of View is part of a series of persuasive essays written by students in…

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Point of View: Help and conversation

It’s 37 degrees as I emerge from the dark house into the blue of dawn. When I step…

Kids enjoy homemade popsicles on May 16, 2021. (Photo courtesy Tressa Dale)

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On the Strawberry Patch: Make memories of summer

Popsicles are easy as can be and can even be a great way to sneak in some nutrition…