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Members of Homer city league basketball teams play in a game on Sunday, leading up to the tournament games this weekend.

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City league to hold playoffs this weekend

Homer’s community recreation adult basketball league or “city league” will hold their championship playoff games at the Homer…

The Homer Spit stretching into Kachemak Bay is seen here on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020 in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

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Halibut Cove woman sentenced in seaplane incident

Marian Beck was sentenced to probation and fined on federal navigation interference charges

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Elijah Williams, 7th grade first place chess champion, at the chess tournament at West Homer Elementary on Monday.

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West Homer Elementary hosts chess tournament

Eighty-five students from Homer area schools in grades three through eight competed in a chess tournament at West…

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“Banned” musicians Scott Bartlett, Martie Krohn, Cindy McKenna and Cathy Stingley provide music at the opening night for the Big Read at Alice’s Champagne Palace on Friday.

Community

NEA ‘Big Read’ event opens at Alice’s

Homer Public Library and Friends of the Homer Public Library on Friday opened their National Endowment for the…

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Homer Lady Mariners win first place trophy at Donlin Gold high school basketball tournament in Bethel, Alaska January 18-20.

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Homer varsity basketball teams travel to Bethel for the Donlin Gold Tournament

Homer Mariner varsity basketball teams participated in the Donlin Gold Invitational Basketball Tournament in Bethel over the weekend…

Homer Middle School boys at the starting line up at the Ohlson Mountain ski trails in Homer on Thursday Jan. 18.  Photo provided by Christopher Kincaid.

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Husky girls take top 3 at cross-country invite

Homer’s Look Out Invitational ski race took place Jan. 18 on a sunny day at the cross-country trails…

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Reid Brewer takes the helm from Kris Holderied as new director at the Kasitsna Bay Lab at Homer Islands and Oceans Center on Jan. 16.

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Reid Brewer takes the helm as director at NOAA’s Kachemak Bay Kasitsna Bay Lab

The Kasitsna Bay Laboratory is located on the south side of Kachemak Bay from Homer near the community…

Homer Harbor on Saturday, May 20, 2023. (Emilie Springer/ Homer News)

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City briefed on Spit conditions amid ongoing harbor expansion

City staff received a baseline conditions report and passed an ordinance appropriating funding match

Baby Benedict Joseph Traugott, South Peninsula Hospital’s first baby of 2024 pictured with his parents Elizabeth and Nathan Traugott.

Community

South Peninsula Hospital welcomes the 1st baby of 2024

Baby Benedict Joseph Traugott was the first baby born in 2024 at South Peninsula Hospital’s Family Birthing Center.…

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Members of Homer’s Elks Lodge and employees of Hospice of Homer stand under the new gazebo donated by the lodge at the end of 2023.

Community

Homer Elks provides new barbecue equipment to Hospice of Homer

Homer Elks Lodge last month provided Hospice of Homer with a new metal gazebo and barbecue grill to…

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First National Vice President and Homer Branch Manager Erik Niebuhr, and Claudia Haines, KBFPC CEO.

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Kachemak Bay Family Planning Clinic receives support for building repairs

Kachemak Bay Family Planning Clinic was awarded a $10,000 grant from First National Bank Alaska to support KBFPC’s…

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Homer community members hold signs on Pioneer Avenue and Svedlund Street in Homer in support of improving senior safety and housing conditions at the Homer Senior Citizens Center on Jan. 15, 2024.

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Community members protest conditions at senior center

Local residents express continued concern about Homer Senior Citizen center

Sarah Vance (Photo provided)

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Vance hosts local discussion ahead of upcoming legislative session

Rep. Sarah Vance on Jan. 4 hosted a public discussion and question and answer session ahead of the…