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From left to right: Leah Evans Cloud, Jonah Cloud, Jeff Dean, Brad Thornburgh and Ranja Dean chat outside the Deans’ home down East End Road before a tour on Friday, July 6, 2018 near Homer, Alaska. The Deans open their farm and art studios to interested visitors. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

Outdoors & Recreation

Local artists open home, farm to tourists

Down the road a piece, nestled in the woods just off East End Road, is a homemaker’s paradise…

Announcements

Town Crier

The Chariots of Fur 5K and Family Fun Run will be held from 10-11 a.m. Saturday, July 14…

A novice competitor prepares to throw a braemar stone during the Kachemak Bay Scottish Highland Games on Saturday, July 7, 2018 at Karen Hornaday Park in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

Outdoors & Recreation

Annual highland games a show of strength and culture

Locals and sassenachs alike descended upon Homer last weekend for the Eighth Annual Kachemak Bay Scottish HighlandGames, and…

Community

Cops and courts

Information about fire, police and troopers is taken from public records consisting of logbooks and press releases.

Several people walking down Pioneer Avenue in a giant salmon costume for Cook Inletkeeper’s portion of the Independence Day parade Wednesday, July 4, 2018 in Homer, Alaska. Other participants carried signs promoting the Stand for Salmon initiative. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

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Independence Day, Homer style

Another Independence Day parade is on the books for Homer.

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Athletes represented Homer in Special Olympics

Several Homer athletes represented their town at this year’s Special Olympics USA Games last week, participating alongside athletes…

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Years Ago

20 years ago in the Homer News

Members of the HERC Task Force and the public, located in the gym currently used for community recreation, listen to city staff talk about the state of the building during a walk-through Tuesday, June 26, 2018 in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

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Task force gets up close look at HERC

Those tasked with determining the future of the Homer Education and Recreation Complex got an up-close look at…

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City hopes to track speeds on Ben Walters Lane

The city of Homer is eyeing a way to get a solid answer on whether there’s a speeding…

Torrin Bartlett tosses the caber (a cardboard tube) during the children’s events in the July 3, 2017 Kachemak Bay Scottish Club Games at Karen Hornaday Park as Dave Brann, left, watches. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

Community

Highland Games to keep brining culture to Homer

Kilt up, laddies and lasses. The highland games are upon us. Thanks to the efforts of the Kachemak…

Bailey Lowney shows a group of women an example of the kind of skates needed for roller derby during an informational meeting Friday, June 29, 2018 at Alice’s Champagne Palace in Homer, Alaska. Lowney, a former derby player, and several other local women are working to form Homer’s first roller derby team. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

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Roller derby comes to Homer

If women in Homer have been looking for a way to combine a love of comradery, female empowerment…

Sophie George prepares to mount her bicycle for a trip from Alaska to Argentina with her husband, Chris Haag, on Monday, July 2, 2018 in Homer, Alaska. The pair set off from a yurt they rented on Hidden Way. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

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Utah couple takes off on two-year cycling tour from Homer to Argentina

There was no big send off, no crowd, no big to-do — just some logistical chit chat and…

<span class="neFMT neFMT_PhotoCredit">Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News</span>                                Homer’s Janelle Moerlein crosses the Homer Spit Run finish line with Renn Marden on Saturday, June 30 at Land’s End Resort in Homer. Read the results of this year’s Spit Run 10K and Cosmic Hamlet Half Marathon on Page A6.

Sports

Hundreds turn out for Homer Spit Run

Mother nature must have known there would be visitors in town over the weekend, because she pulled out…