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    Skiers get a lift up the hill at the Homer Rope Tow on Ohlson Mountain in this March 2014 photo in Homer, Alaska. (Homer News file photo)
    Ohlson Mountain Rope Tow completes annual safety inspection
    By Emilie Springer • December 5, 2024 1:30 am

    The club prepares meeting to elect new board members

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    Artist Jeff Dean (right) talks to patrons at his booth at the annual Nutcracker Faire sponsored by Homer Council on the Arts on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023 at Homer High School in Homer, Alaska. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)
    Nutcracker Faire opens with array of vendors
    By Emilie Springer • December 5, 2024 1:30 am

    In addition to the opening “Nutcracker” stage performances, Homer Council on the Arts is again hosting organization of the annual…

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    Homer “Nutcracker” dancers Ella Gustufson and Sofia Loboy help create Christmas tree gift tags for the 2024 Homer Share the Spirit in the Homer High School green room during “Nutcracker” rehearsal last weekend. They are joined by one of the Nutcracker’s small participants. (Emilie Springer/Homer News)
    Share the Spirit brings holiday cheer, support
    By Emilie Springer • December 5, 2024 1:30 am

    Homer’s longtime community donation program “Share the Spirit” returns for the Christmas holidays.

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    Michael McKinney and Bobby McKinney add finishing touches to the party scene fireplace at the Homer “Nutcracker” rehearsals on Sunday at the Homer Mariner Theater. (Emilie Springer/ Homer News)
    Behind the scenes at ‘The Nutcracker’
    By Emilie Springer • December 5, 2024 1:30 am

    The 2024 Homer Nutcracker Ballet opens on Friday and cast and crew have put in hundreds of volunteer hours in…

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    Pratt Museum receives funds to restore Gull Island exhibit
    Pratt Museum receives funds to restore Gull Island...
    By Emilie Springer • December 5, 2024 1:30 am

    Homer’s Pratt Museum has received a $15,827 grant from Museums Alaska, a nonprofit organization supported by the Rasmuson Foundation. The…

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    Homer Harbor on Saturday, May 20, 2023. (Emilie Springer/ Homer News)
    City seeks harbor funding
    By Emilie Springer • December 5, 2024 1:30 am

    Homer supports opportunities and funding increases to the Municipal Harbor Facility Grant Program

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    A memorial for Drew Brown with his photo, flowers and a heart sculpture was installed at the site where he died in a car crash on the Sterling Highway, as seen here on Friday, Sept. 16, 2022, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
    Homer man sentenced in drunk driving death
    By Emilie Springer • November 27, 2024 1:30 am

    Tyler Cordes on Thursday was sentenced in the Homer Courthouse for driving while intoxicated and crashing his vehicle in 2021

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    Ellowyn Hanson competes in the butterfly in the 8-and-under medley relay at the Kate Kuhns Memorial Pool on Saturday, Nov. 23<ins>,</ins><ins> 2024, in Homer, </ins><ins>Alaska</ins>. (Photo provided by Kachemak Kings)
    Homer Kachemak Kings host peninsula swim meet
    By Emilie Springer • November 27, 2024 1:30 am

    The Homer swim club, Kachemak Kings, over the weekend hosted the first home meet of the season. The Nov. 22-23…

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    Photo by Emilie Springer/Homer News
Christopher Kincaid, sound technician, takes photos for the 2024 “Nutcracker” production at rehearsal on Sunday, Nov. 10<ins>, 2024,</ins> in the Homer Mariner Theatre<ins> in Homer, </ins><ins>Alaska</ins>.
    Kincaid brings sounds to ‘Nutcracker’
    By Emilie Springer • November 27, 2024 1:30 am

    Preparing for Homer’s “Nutcracker” production takes substantial community volunteer effort from the youth dancers, various dimensions of technical crew, costume…

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    Friends of Kachemak Bay State Park holds dessert auction fundraiser
    Friends of Kachemak Bay State Park holds dessert...
    By Emilie Springer • November 27, 2024 1:30 am

    Grace Ridge Brewery will host a pre-Thanksgiving dessert auction as a fundraiser for Friends of Kachemak Bay State Park on…

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    Sunrise over UAA's Kenai Peninsula College Kenai River Campus main entrance and Clarence E. Goodrich Building. Photo provided by KRC.
    $2.3 million grant will fund migrant education at...
    By Emilie Springer • November 27, 2024 1:30 am

    The College Assistance Migrant Program is a five-year grant provided by the U.S. Department of Education

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    Homer Senior Citizen Center in Homer, Alaska. Photo by Emilie Springer/Homer News.
    Senior center during board meeting discloses extensive debt
    By Emilie Springer • November 21, 2024 1:30 am

    The organization reported unpaid payroll taxes and invoices

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    Homer Foundation Executive Director Stacey Schultz, left, receives from Jules and Dawn Ravin an honorary $1.2 million check to support youth in the community at the foundation's annual board meeting at the Kachemak Bay Campus in Homer, Alaska, Nov. 14, 2024. (Photo by Emilie Springer/Homer News)
    Local lottery winner donates $1.2 million to Homer...
    By Emilie Springer • November 21, 2024 1:30 am

    The gift will support youth programming

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