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Moving forward

With the Homer City Council’s blessing to proceed until the project is completed, the Public Safety Building Review…

Ruby Holschen, left, and Mya Houglin display T-shirts supporting their friend Angelica Haakenson, 11, of Anchor Point who was injured in a Christmas Day wreck on the Sterling Highway.-Photo by McKibben Jackinsky, Homer News

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Angelica has army of angels assisting

Hold a spaghetti feed and auction benefit and you just never know what will happen.  In the case…

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Nomination period open for HEA board

Homer Electric Association is accepting nominations from members interested in running for a seat on the cooperative’s board…

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School district begins superintendent search

The search for the next Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Superintendent has begun. The application period opened Friday…

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Alaska seafood processor sells stake to StarKist

An Alaska seafood processor has sold a 12 percent stake to the parent company of StarKist Co., giving…

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South Peninsula Hospital offers ‘Living Well’ classes

South Peninsula Hospital will offer “Living Well Alaska,” a series of six, two-hour classes to help people with…

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Analysis: Governor’s firing of 3 AGDC board members may backfire

The state’s political and resource communities are still buzzing about Gov. Bill Walker’s sudden firing Jan. 6 of…

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Cotten named Fish and Game commissioner

Alaska Gov. Bill Walker on Tuesday appointed Sam Cotten to serve as commissioner of the Alaska Department of…

Denise Pitzman

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Pitzman earns Realtor of the Year honors

The annual Kachemak Board of Realtors Christmas party wrapped up the old year with some giving — and…

Chenault asks Walker to consider tossing out fish board

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Chenault asks Walker to consider tossing out fish board

People across the state, including House Speaker Mike Chenault, are questioning the Board of Fisheries’ unanimous vote to…

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Johnstone quits Board of Fisheries

Alaska Board of Fisheries Chairman Karl Johnstone resigned Tuesday, and a longtime Cook Inlet commercial fisheries advocate has…

Artist and poet Jo Going, left, visits with Homer poet Eva Saulitis through a Skype connection at the opening of Going’s show, “Still and Again,” last Friday at Bunnell Street Arts Center. Saulitis is in Hawaii, and Michael Walsh of Bunnell Street Arts Center set up the Skype session so Saulitis could see the show and hear Going’s poetry reading.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Homer’s Best Bets

We American journalists like to think we’re tough. Cover up a political scandal and we’ll go all Woodward…

Zulu

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Pet of the Week

Little Zulu is a wild thing. She’ll hide until she is sure you are OK. This 2-year-old, long-haired…