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Homer’s Alex Moseley and Brooke Miller and Seward’s Ruby Lindquist jockey for position in the Division II girls race at the Region III Championships on Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017, at the Government Peak Recreation Area. (Photo by Jeremiah Bartz/Frontiersman)

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Weekly high school sports highlights

Upcoming events Volleyball: The C-Team, junior varsity and varsity volleyball teams will play against Seward at 4 p.m.,…

Foma Reutov, a freshman, ties up his shoes before a Cougars football practice Friday, Sept. 1, 2017 at McNeil Canyon Elementary in Fritz Creek, Alaska. The team, usually made up of a mix of students from the Russian Old Believer Villages Voznesenka, Razdolna and Kachemak-Selo, is in its fifth year as a varsity, 11-man program. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

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Russian Old Believer football program forges ahead into fifth season

The Head of the Bay Cougars have five seasons and just about as many wins under their belt.…

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Homer may extend borough tax exemption to local disabled vets

Disabled veterans and those they leave behind may soon be added to the list of people in Homer…

Saundra Hudson crosses the finish line of her first mile run in six months during the Mariner Mile event Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017 at the high school track in Homer, Alaska. Hudson, an active member of and advocator for the Homer running community and teacher at Homer High School, experienced a head injury when she slipped on the ice running this past March, and Thursday’s fundraising event for the Kachemak Bay Running Club was her first return to running since then. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

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Active runner returns to lifelong passion with Mariner Mile following accident

Those who know Saundra Hudson well would say that a mile race is nothing for the active member…

Players on the Homer Mariners varsity football team leave the field celebrating after their win against Nikiski High School in a homecoming game Saturday, Sept. 16, 2017 at Homer High School in Homer, Alaska. The Mariners topped the Bulldogs 38-0. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

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Mariners roll over Bulldogs in homecoming victory, continue winning streak

It was a happy homecoming indeed this past weekend for the Homer Mariners varsity football team, as the…

Zaya McKinley Robinson

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Zaya McKinley Robinson

Zaya McKinley Robinson was born at 11:41 p.m. Sept. 8, 2017, at Homer Birth and Wellness Center to…

Homer’s Clayton Arndt swims to second place in the 100 freestyle Saturday, Sept. 16, 2017, at the Kenai Invitational at Kenai Central High School. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)

Weekly high school sports highlights

Upcoming events Homer High School Cross-Country: The boys and girls teams will compete in the XCR Regions at…

Shine, the 2017 Burning Basket, burns on Sunday, Sept. 10, 2017 at Mariner Park on the Homer Spit. (Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News)

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Burn baby burn: Community art project lights up the night

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Council declines to reconsider resolution addressing recall standards

The Homer City Council has reaffirmed its wish to ask the Alaska Legislature to reevaluate the standards for…

Varsity Cross Country runners take off from the starting line during the Kenai Peninsula Borough Cross Country Running Championships on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017 at the Lookout Mountain Trails near Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

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Homer girls, boys nab second in borough cross country championships

Not even the strong, biting wind that rolled through the Lookout Mountain Trails on Tuesday afternoon could blow…

Senior and right hitter Rasia Basargin spikes the ball over the net during Homer’s varsity volleyball team’s game against Joe Redington Jr./Sr. High School on Friday, Sept. 8, 2017 at the Alice Witte Gymnasium in Homer, Alaska. The Mariners swept the Huskies 3 sets to 0. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

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Weekly high school sports highlights

Upcoming events Cross Country will participate in time trials on the Homer Spit on Saturday, Sept. 16. Volleyball:…

Homer Theatre owner Jamie Sutton, wearing special glasses, introduces Werner Herzog’s “Cave of Forgotten Dreams,” the first digital 3-D film shown at the 55-year-old theater for the 2011 Homer Documentary Film Festival. (Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News)

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Homer Doc Fest returns with films that seek to enlighten

Next week, Homer film buffs will escape reality for an hour or two during the weeklong 14th annual…

Deb Lowney demonstrates to a group of Paul Banks Elementary students how much of a tree’s roots need to be buried in the ground when they are transplanted Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017 at Karen Hornaday Park in Homer, Alaska. The students volunteered to transplant the pine trees onto new trail sections at the park to promote plan diversity. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

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Paul Banks students help transplant trees

Some young Paul Banks Elementary students got a bit dirty in the name of public service last week…