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Outrageous Jazz performs in 2012 at Pier One Theatre. From left to right are Karen Strid-Chadwick, piano; Brenda Vulgamore Hune, vocals; Heidi Herbert-Lovern, bass; Dale Curtis, trumpet; and Curtis Bates, drums.
Bates is not playing this year, with Cameron Cartland playing drums. 
-Photo provided

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Outrageous Jazz will make Pier One pop this weekend

When Pier One Theatre goes dark between its Youth Theatre production in late July and the closing show…

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No indictment yet in Resetarits case

As of its meeting last Friday, a Kenai grand jury has not yet re-indicted the two Homer brothers…

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Alaska Supreme Court reverses food-tax referendum decision

In a decision that clarifies the rights of Alaska citizens to change law by initiative and referendum, the…

At the eighth annual Homer Documentary Film Festival in 2011, 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 theater. A digital movie projection system that allowed for the showing of 3-D films was among the improvements Jamie and Lynette Sutton made to the theater. A less high-tech improvement was adding several couches in the theater, seen at right in the photo.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Homer’s only movie theater for sale

In the 1939 movie, “Babes in Arms,” Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland created one of the classic themes…

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Teen hits police car while texting, driving

It was bad enough when a 17-year-old boy texted while driving. But when the boy then ran into…

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State closes child care facility after one child hurt by another

Following an assault on a child by another child at a Homer child care facility, the Alaska Department…

Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Homer Spit Campground: 40 years a family tradition

As long as people have been visiting the Homer Spit, they have camped outdoors. Archaeologists have found shell…

Scientist, author and musician David Montgomery plays at Cook Inletkeeper’s Splash Bash on July 31.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Scientist, author focuses on salmon at Inletkeeper’s annual Splash Bash

Not every scientist starts out a talk playing guitar, but David Montgomery, the speaker at Cook Inletkeeper’s 17th…

Joel Isaak shows a mask made of fish skin he was working on this Monday during a three-day residency at the Pratt Museum.

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Visiting artists Michael, Isaak embody modern Native Alaska art

When Homer artist Ron Senungetuk curated “Inspirations: An Alaska Native Art Exhibition” in September 2010 at the Pratt…

Jim Herold of Charleston, S.C., rides on the Homer Spit on Tuesday afternoon. Herold finished the Hoka Hey 2014 Challenge at 1:55 a.m. Tuesday. He has finished all five Hoka Hey challenges, including the first one in 2010. -Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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First riders finish Hoka Hey Challenge

Seven days and 16 hours after they left Key West, Fla., the first riders finished the 2014 Hoka…

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Resetarits brothers’ assault trial slated to start Monday in Homer

The trial date for two brothers charged with sexual assault remains scheduled for Monday, but a hearing late…

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One year later: Unsolved murder top priority for Homer police

A year after someone killed a Homer man near a popular downtown trail, Homer’s only unsolved murder remains…

Brush and trees line the path to the Homer Public Library and along Hazel Avenue.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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City makes plans to clear brush from Town Center, library land

Walk down a trail from the Homer Public Library to the Poopdeck Trail, and with brush in full…