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Council debates roads, rec

At recent meetings, Homer City Council members have debated philosophical issues such as “Should Homer allow commercial cannabis?”…

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Land trust files lawsuit over alleged conservation easement violations on Kilcher family homestead

In an action the Kachemak Heritage Land Trust calls a last resort, the conservation organization filed a civil…

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Repaving project will reduce maintenance costs, says city

An ordinance to spend up to $638,000 to repave nine Homer streets returns to the Homer City Council’s…

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Repaving project will reduce maintenance costs, says city

An ordinance to spend up to $638,000 to repave nine Homer streets returns to the Homer City Council’s…

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Legislators work past deadline

In a phone call on Tuesday with Jenny Martin, Rep. Paul Seaton’s chief of staff, jackhammers could be…

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Cannabis cultivator gets 60 days for $1.5 million grow

A Homer man who grew an estimated $1.5 million worth of cannabis at an indoor grow operation off…

Sarah Frary, who uses the name Sarah Tonin in her art, stands by one of her paintings for “Lyrical Topography” at Bunnell Street Arts Center.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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New show takes artist in different direction

In map making, artists depict the landscape with lines and shading. A city map can be all streets,…

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Rec center funding back on city council’s agenda

A proposal by Homer Mayor Beth Wythe to fund at $600,000 a community recreation center that died at…

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Homer’s ‘creative heart’ dies

“If you had to summarize the arts in Homer, two words: Mary Epperson,” retired Homer High School teacher…

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Man found dead remembered as kind, generous

A Homer man found dead on the Spit last Saturday, Jeff Wraley, should be remembered for his intelligence,…

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Gabryszak hearing continued to next week

A preliminary hearing for a Homer man charged with illegally growing marijuana was continued at the Homer District…

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Senior tax exemption may be safe

A bill that would remove a state mandatory property-tax exemption for Alaska seniors failed to advance out of…

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Police identify man found dead on Spit

Update: Homer Police on Tuesday identifed the man found dead on the Homer Spit last Saturday. He is…