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Everly Noelle Hanson

Everly Noelle Hanson was born at 12:50 p.m. Dec. 3, 2014, at South Peninsula Hospital to Lisa and…

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Jonathan Marshal Erickson

Jonathan Marshal Erickson was born at 11:40 p.m. Dec. 1, 2014, at South Peninsula Hospital to Melinda and…

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Announcements

The Kachemak Emergency Service Area Board holds its regular monthly board meeting at 7 p.m. today at the…

Students in the Kachemak Bay Campus’ Semester by the Bay program pose in front of the Stejneger’s beaked whale they articulated. From left are Ryan Ward, Miranda Domico, biology professor Debbie Tobin, Chandler Jennings, Ashley Bothwell, Clarissa Perkins, Adriana Ferello, Lauren McCaslin and Shelby Spade. Not pictured is Stephen Fogarsi.-Photo by Lindsay Olsen

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Designed to inspire

Last Friday, students gathered in Kachemak Bay Campus’ Bayview Hall as the skeleton of a Stejneger’s beaked whale…

Homer City Manager Walt Wrede, right, gives Homer Mayor Beth Wythe a hug after she finishes making comments about his 12 years of service during Monday’s city council meeting. Wrede’s last day on the job is Dec. 31.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Public praises Wrede’s work

It was saved until the end of Monday’s regular city council meeting, but the lineup at the microphone,…

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Pet of the Week

The Animal Shelter has four wonderful, 5-week-old, MacKenzie River husky-Border Collie mix pups. The three boys and one…

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Hatfield, Bremicker sign books Sunday

Jean Hatfield will be signing copies of her newly published work, “The Glass Ball,” at the Homer Bookstore…

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Bunnell announces April artists

Bunnell Street Arts Center has selected poet Lee Ann Roripaugh and fiber artist Abigail Kokai to be its…

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Marimba group performs for solstice

Williwaw Marimba holds a free holiday music party at 7 p.m. Dec. 21 at the Homer Elks Lodge.…

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Storytelling circle set for Dec. 19

Skywalker Storyteller holds a holiday storytelling circle at 6:30 p.m. Dec. 19 at Homer Council on the Arts,…

An American coot hides in grass at Beluga Slough last Saturday afternoon. Common in the Lower 48, coots are rare in Alaska. Local birders reported seeing the coot last Friday, too. It was feeding near where Beluga Lake empties into the slough.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Homer’s Best Bets

Saturday will be the end of an era, Betsteroids. That’s right. On 12/13/14 it will be the last…

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Bunnell Street Arts Center presents concert Sunday

Armin Abdihodžic, guitar, and Zachary Milliman, tenor, perform in concert at 3 p.m. Sunday at Bunnell Street Arts…

Choir members sing during a 2007 rehearsal of “The Messiah”  at Homer High School, the last time the Kenai Peninsula Orchestra performed Handel’s oratorio.-Homer News file photo

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Hallelujah! Community sings together again

Feel like singing? This Monday at the Homer High School Winter Concert an old tradition will make an…