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    Laura McBride, Food Pantry Coordinator, stands in front of the Community Fridge located at the Homer United Methodist Church on Thursday, Dec. 1 in Homer. (Photo by Charlie Menke / Homer News)
    Community Fridge provides free food
    By Charlie Menke • December 14, 2022 1:30 am

    This community fridge encourages anyone to donate what they would eat and take what they need.

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    Homer’s Peyton Edens makes a move toward the basket during the Class 3A boys basketball fourth-place semifinals at the Alaska Airlines Center in Anchorage, Alaska, on Thursday, March 24, 2022. (Camille Botello/Peninsula Clarion)
    Boys Mariners Basketball gets hoopin’
    By Charlie Menke • December 8, 2022 1:30 am

    The Homer High School team will play their first home game on Friday, Dec. 16.

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    Papers are in at the Homer News building on Thursday, Dec. 1 in Homer. (Photo by Charlie Menke / Homer News)
    Out of the Office: In the Office
    By Charlie Menke • December 8, 2022 1:30 am

    For my last out of the office story, I am going to bring you into the office with a short…

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    “Remember” is one of the messages on a luminaria onThursday, Dec. 16, 2021, for Hospice of Homer’s “LIght Up a Life” event at WKFL Park in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
    A way to love those you’ve lost
    By Charlie Menke • December 7, 2022 1:30 am

    The efforts of the Hospice of Homer during this holiday season.

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    Santa’s transportation on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022 in Homer. (Photo by Charlie Menke / Homer News)
    Ho, ho, ho
    By Charlie Menke • December 7, 2022 1:30 am

    Santa stops by during the annual Homer Holiday Tree lighting

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    Homer Volunteer Fire Department on Tuesday, Nov. 29 in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Charlie Menke / Homer News)
    Council funds port expansion, fire department
    By Charlie Menke • December 1, 2022 1:30 am

    The Homer Volunteer Fire Department will gain two new Full-time firefighter/EMT positions.

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    A Soldotna player guards Homer's Hannah Hatfield during a Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020 basketball game in the Alice Witte Gymnasium in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)
    Season Preview: Mariners Girls Basketball
    By Charlie Menke • December 1, 2022 1:30 am

    Head Coach Chad Felice gives his thoughts on the upcoming season

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    Mariners’ Casey Otis is rushed by his team after scoring against the Houston Hawks, with an assist by Hunter Green. The Mariners won 4-3 in overtime Friday night. (Photo by Sarah Knapp/Homer News)
    Mariner skates remain unlaced
    By Charlie Menke • November 23, 2022 1:30 am

    Homer High School will not have a Mariner hockey team this 2022-23 season.

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    Homer Spit parking areas on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022 in Homer. (Photo by Charlie Menke / Homer News)
    City Council to discuss Spit parking, Fire Department
    By Charlie Menke • November 23, 2022 1:30 am

    On Nov. 28, the council may decide to fund two new full-time firefighter/EMT positions.

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    Homer Emblem Club 350 members march down Main Street for Veterans Day on Friday, Nov. 11, in Homer. (Photo by Charlie Menke / Homer News)
    Veterans march through the rain
    By Charlie Menke • November 17, 2022 1:30 am

    The rain did not stop the committed members of local veterans organizations from marching through Homer to honor veterans.

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    Work on a new sidewalk and widening of the street is almost done on Main Street north of Pioneer Avenue on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
    Council passes sidewalks, trails ordinance
    By Charlie Menke • November 17, 2022 1:30 am

    New law would require non-motorized facilities under certain conditions.

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    Walkers here, please. (Photo by Charlie Menke / Homer News)
    Out of the Office: Walking
    By Charlie Menke • November 10, 2022 1:30 am

    “Only ideas won by walking have any value,” 20th century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote.

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    Jamie Hoy, a Montana State University student who is participating in the Kachemak Bay Campus of Kenai Peninsula College, University of Alaska Anchorage’s, “Semester by the Bay” program, gives a presentation on orca whales at the Marine Mammal Biology Symposium on Friday, Nov. 4 in Homer. (Photo by Charlie Menke / Homer News)
    Semester by the Bay students present work
    By Charlie Menke • November 10, 2022 1:30 am

    A room full of young minds all interested in solving the same problems, and loving the same parts of nature,…

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    Booths at the Homer Rotary Health Fair on Saturday, Nov. 5 at the Homer High School Commons in Homer. (Photo by Charlie Menke / Homer News)
    Health Fair returns to in-person
    By Charlie Menke • November 10, 2022 1:30 am

    People who attended the Homer Rotary Club Health Fair last Saturday might have walked out of Homer High School feeling…

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    Michael Edward Merrick.
    Michael Edward Merrick obituary

    Michael Edward Merrick

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    Homer City Hall. (Homer News file photo)
    Council expands permitted uses in zoning districts.
    By Charlie Menke • November 3, 2022 1:30 am

    Change would allow more dwelling units in some areas without applying for conditional use permit.

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