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Cops and Courts

Information about fire, police and troopers is taken from public records consisting of logbooks and press releases.

Fireworks explode in the sky above Mariner Park on New Year’s Eve, Dec. 31, 2018 in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

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Best Bets

Editor’s note: The spelling of self-defense teacher Ken Domela’s name has been corrected.

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Thanks, Kachemak Bay Marines

Keith Hamilton of Alaska Christian College gives public testimony for the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly in support of the assembly appealing the superior court’s decision regarding the borough’s invocation policy, in Soldotna, Alaska, on Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2018. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)

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Kenai Assembly’s prayer list broadens after policy change

ANCHORAGE — The list of people signed up to deliver invocations to the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly includes…

Community

Morgan Alexander Malcolm Wertz

Morgan Alexander Malcolm Wertz was born at 6:16 p.m. on Jan. 1, 2019 at South Peninsula Hospital to…

Years Ago

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Years Ago

20 years ago in the Homer News

Out of the Office: At the edge of the world

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Out of the Office: At the edge of the world

Anniversaries are strange things — in many ways they are arbitrary, days we mark on a calendar to…

Pet of the Week: Fluffy (Sylvester)

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Pet of the Week: Fluffy (Sylvester)

Fluffy (aka Sylvester) is an 11-year-old male.

<span class="neFMT neFMT_PhotoCredit">Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News</span>                                The open sign for Uncle Herb’s, Homer’s first marijuana retail store, lights up on opening day, Thursday, May 24 on Ocean Drive in Homer.

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Control board approves rules for onsite marijuana use

JUNEAU — Alaska regulators last Thursday approved rules for onsite consumption of marijuana at specially designated shops, a…

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Thanks for Dirty Water Bill

Teachers, support staff and community members, many of them wearing red, prepare to listen to the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Board of Education’s Monday, Sept. 10, 2018 meeting at Homer High School in Homer, Alaska. The board holds one meeting each year in Homer, and another in Seward. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

Education

School board to offer remote testimony in 2019

The new year is bringing a new feature to Kenai Peninsula Borough School District meetings.

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Town Crier

Kachemak Bay State Parks is currently recruiting for members for the Kachemak Bay State Parks Citizens Advisory Board.

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Serena MacRae Sharp

Serena MacRae Sharp was born at 9:19 p.m. on Dec. 20, 2018 at South Peninsula Hospital to Chesnut…