Sports
Nikolaevsk cagers sweep Kalskag
The Nikolaevsk girls and boys basketball teams scored victories over visiting Kalskag on Monday in nonconference action. The…
Sports
Mariner girls pick up hoops conference win
Homer’s girls varsity basketball team notched a Southcentral Conference victory against Seward on Friday, Jan. 29. Boys varsity…
Sports
Mariners victorious over Kenai, 7-2, in hockey team’s final home game
The Mariner hockey team crushed the competition on Thursday, Jan. 28, at the last home game of the…
Community
The Arts in Brief
Shut Up and Write! is Thursdays at Alice’s “Shut up and write!” takes the writing experience from solitary…
Community
First Friday events
Bunnell Street Arts Center 106 W. Bunnell Ave. Seven Years, installation by Desiree Hagen 5-7 p.m., First Friday…
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Mariner DDF team places across several categories at Service
Homer High School’s DDF (Drama, Debate and Forensics) team competed at Service High in Anchorage on Jan. 29-30…
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Fun for all at Bingo for Books event
The annual Paul Banks Elementary School Bingo for Books was a fun evening for the 250-plus students, parents…
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School Events
Chapman School Feb. 4-5: Conferences, 8 a.m. – 7 p.m., no school. Feb. 5: Wrestling at Homer, 10…
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HHS students sweep skills competition
The 21 students representing Homer High School in the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District 2016 Career and Technical…
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Healthy you key to healthy community
Editor’s Note: MAPP, Mobilizing for Action through Planning & Partnerships, is a local coalition that aims to use…
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Legion donations help grow readers
Thanks to the generous donations of American Legion General Buckner Post 16 to Homer Homemakers FCE for the…
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Act of kindness: a beautiful gift
About two weeks before Christmas, my 99-year-old mother Nadine Pence was at Safeway admiring the poinsettias. As she…
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Great writers in our midst
I went to Eva Saulitis’s tribute this past Friday and walked away filled with delicacy and beauty, realizing…