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Upcoming events: Hockey: The Mariner Co-op Hockey team will face off against Kenai Central High School at 5…

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Basketball coaches look forward to season

As some sport seasons are nearing their end, others are just getting geared up, like the boys and…

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Council passes $21.7 million budget

Homer has a budget for fiscal year 2018, now that it’s been passed by the City Council after…

Boomerang bags, as seen here, are handmade totes and shopping bags by groups of people in communities around the world through grassroots efforts to reduce the use of plastic bags. The Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies is spearheading the start of boomerang bag making in Homer with sewing bees hosted at the center. (Photo courtesy Beth Trowbridge)

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Boomerang Bags aim to reduce plastic bags

People in Homer are coming for plastic bags — again. Members of the Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies…

Pet of the Week: Nellie

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Pet of the Week: Nellie

Pet of the Week Nellie is a 5-year-old female. Nellie is in a foster home right now and…

Homer High School’s hockey team celebrates its 2-1 win against Colony High School on Friday, Dec. 1, 2017 at Kevin Bell Arena in Homer, Alaska. Homer’s Ethan Pitzman scored the winning goal with less than 11 seconds left on the clock in overtime. The Mariners swept all three Mat-Su Valley teams they played this weekend, moving to 3-0 in conference play. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

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Homer hockey team is first in conference after weekend sweep of Mat-Su teams, blowout at Soldotna

If this past weekend is any indication, this year’s Homer Mariner Co-Op Hockey team cannot be stopped. What…

Homer’s Richard Brock struggles to break free from Colony High School’s Brandon Holmes during a wrestling match Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017 at the Alice Witte Gymnasium in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

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Homer celebrates senior wrestlers; team takes 3rd at North-South meet

The Homer Mariners wrestling team is nearing the end of its season, still ranked the No. 1 Division…

Homer’s Dimitry Kuzmin (front) works for a shot against Soldotna goaltender Kenzie Powell Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017 at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex in Soldotna, Alaska. (Photo by Joey Klecka/Peninsula Clarion)

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Weekly sports highlights

Upcoming events: Homer High School Hockey: The Mariner Co-op Hockey team will face off against Kenai Central High…

Pedro Ochoa, the assistant cross-country team coach, reads a sonnet he wrote during a Coffee House event held Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017 at Pioneer Hall on Kachemak Bay Campus in Homer, Alaska. The event was put on by the school’s Student Association and was an opportunity for student, many of whom were taking a creative writing class, to share their work aloud in public. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

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Students share writing in KBC spoken word event

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This graphic taken from a Homer City Council meeting packet shows the preliminary design of a single story, $6 million police station. (Photo courtesy City of Homer)

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Council weighs in on police station design

From the location of bathrooms to the future of crime and population in Homer, City Council members grilled…

Pinky Sarber holds an ornament she made for a Christmas tree decorated by Paul Banks Elementary School students for a fundraiser Friday, Dec. 1, 2017 in Homer, Alaska benefitting South Peninsula Haven House. Young artists made the snowmen by tracing their fingers. Local nonprofits decorated trees that were auctioned off in a silent auction at a space Haven House uses for special events on Bunnell Avenue in Homer. (Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News)

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Signs of the season

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Residents face shorter health care enrollment window

Facing a much shorter window to enroll in a health care insurance plan — enrollment ends on Dec.…

Homer’s Jacob Davis works his way to a third-place finish Saturday, Dec. 2, 2017, at the Tsalteshi Classic Invitational at Tsalteshi Trails in Soldotna, Alaska. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)

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Homer’s Autumn Daigle takes first at impromptu Soldotna ski meet; Jacob Davis takes third

Homer’s Autumn Daigle pushed ahead through less-than-ideal classic skiing weather to win an impromptu meet in Soldotna over…