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Picture Alaska to go out of business; First Friday shows look at remote landscapes, boreal forest

Picture Alaska, a constant presence on Pioneer Avenue for First Friday art openings, announced this week that after…

Roan Hall, left, poses with Flo Larson on Monday at Finn’s Pizza on the Homer Spit. He received the first Peter Larson scholarship, a $1,000 award.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Chugiak student awarded first Peter Larson scholarship

Roan Hall, 16, of Chugiak, has become the first recipient of the AFS-Peter Larson Memorial Scholarship. Hall was…

Anna Stewart, left, and Sarah Bodary, right, sell peonies and other flowers at the Homer Farmers Market last August. -Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Early blooms don’t hurt peony growers

Around the lower Kenai Peninsula as the calendar page turns to August, evidence of an early season can…

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Library staff solves case of stolen skateboard

Call it HPL-CSI. That’s Homer Public Library-Crime Scene Investigators.  In the case of a stolen skateboard, library staff…

A flaming salmon sculpture sets the mood for Salmonstock.-Photo by McKibben Jackinsky, Homer News

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Salmonstock

Like a good salmon run that keeps coming back stronger and stronger, Salmonstock, the three-day celebration of salmon…

Several people stand by a building at Coal Point in 1892 on the Homer Spit, the first non-Native settlement there. -Photo provided, Pratt Museum

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PARKS DAY: CELEBRATING EARLY HOMER SPIT HISTORY

Most everyone knows the story of the naming of Homer, and how in April 1896, 50 men and…

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Hoka Hey riders head to Homer

In a repeat of the 2010 Hoka Hey motorcycle challenge, about 75 Harley-Davidson motorcycle riders left Key West,…

Kim McNett kayaks around the new dock at the Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies Peterson Bay Field Station.

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Sitting on the dock of the bay: CACS gets new access

Since the early days when the Peterson Bay Field Station opened in 1983, visitors to the Center for…

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Troopers say alcohol likely a factor in fatal ATV crash

In three separate incidents last week, vehicle crashes killed a Wasilla woman and injured two Homer women. Police…

Gary Sloan

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Concert on the Lawn moves to new time, recalls station’s past

If it’s late summer, that means it’s Concert on the Lawn time. But wait — it’s not late…

In June 1988, KBBI programming director Susan Kernes, left, holds the shovel while development director Cathy Thomas, right, shows Sen. Paul Fischer, R-Soldotna, center left, and Rep. Mike Navarre, D-Kenai, center right, where to break ground for KBBI’s new Kachemak Way studio.-Homer News file photo

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KBBI: Homer’s oldest radio station

Forty-five years ago humans first walked on the moon. By 1979, it’s hard to believe that with advances…

Mark Begich

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Begich visits Homer, lays groundwork for campaign

With three Republican Party candidates fighting to oppose him in the general election, Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, visited…

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Nikolaevsk man killed in crash on North Fork

A Nikolaevsk man died from injuries in a single-car crash on the North Fork Road last Friday.  Ivola…