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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)

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Community Fridge provides free food

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

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)

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Boys Mariners Basketball gets hoopin’

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

Papers are in at the Homer News building on Thursday, Dec. 1 in Homer. (Photo by Charlie Menke / Homer News)

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Out of the Office: In the Office

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

“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)

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A way to love those you’ve lost

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

Santa’s transportation on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022 in Homer. (Photo by Charlie Menke / Homer News)

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Ho, ho, ho

Santa stops by during the annual Homer Holiday Tree lighting

Homer Volunteer Fire Department on Tuesday, Nov. 29 in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Charlie Menke / Homer News)

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Council funds port expansion, fire department

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

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)

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Season Preview: Mariners Girls Basketball

Head Coach Chad Felice gives his thoughts on the upcoming season

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)

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Mariner skates remain unlaced

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

Homer Spit parking areas on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022 in Homer. (Photo by Charlie Menke / Homer News)

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City Council to discuss Spit parking, Fire Department

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

Homer Emblem Club 350 members march down Main Street for Veterans Day on Friday, Nov. 11, in Homer. (Photo by Charlie Menke / Homer News)

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Veterans march through the rain

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

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)

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Council passes sidewalks, trails ordinance

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

Walkers here, please. (Photo by Charlie Menke / Homer News)

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Out of the Office: Walking

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

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)

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Semester by the Bay students present work

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