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Terroristic threatening charge dismissed

An East End Road man arrested for second-degree terroristic threatening has had the felony charge dismissed and was…

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Police identify victim of June 13 house fire

The State Medical Examiner positively identified Paul Baylink, 46, as the person killed in a Rainbow Court house…

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First Friday is really First Weekend for arts

With First Friday in July falling on Independence Day, some Homer galleries have chosen to hold art openings…

Sage Dance-Wright stands by the Cool Juicy Bus on Monday afternoon.

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Cool Juicy Bus back in business

The Cool Juicy Bus, a smoothie and juice drink stand located in a 1960s school bus, reopened Monday…

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Homer man arrested on stalking, drug charges

Homer Police last week arrested a Homer man for stalking after a woman reported the man had started…

Pratt celebrates $900,000 grant

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Pratt celebrates $900,000 grant

From 5 to 7 p.m. today, the Pratt Museum holds an event celebrating a $900,000 grant it received…

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City settles with two in sewage backup

The city of Homer has settled with two of three property owners who filed claims in a sewer…

Dan Sullivan, left, speaks with Bob and Jan Goehringer at a campaign appearance by Sullivan last Thursday at the Kachemak Community Center. Sullivan is running for the Republican Party nomination for U.S. senator.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Sullivan: Campaign based on optimisim

Less than a week after one of his primary opponents, Joe Miller, spoke in Homer for Father’s Day,…

GOOD: Brenda White, left, her Irish water spaniel, Flutie, and Paul Lepsik cross the Homer Spit Road on a crosswalk, the painted white lines.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Bike, walking advocates push safety, awareness

Now that it’s summer and the roads and trails have been swept, walkers and bicyclists have become more…

Anchorage artist James R. Behlke demonstrates how to create paintings on his iPad at a workshop June 6 at the Bunnell Street Arts Center.                                                              -Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Anchorage artist using new creative tool: an iPad

In “Close to Home,” Anchorage artist James Behlke’s exhibit this month at Bunnell Street Arts Center, large charcoal…

White Eagle Medicine Woman plays the Grandmother Drum.-Photo provided

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Grandmother Drum ‘prayerformance’ is Saturday at Methodist Church

White Eagle Medicine Woman conducts a Grandmother Drum “prayerformance” from 3 to 7 p.m. Saturday at Homer United…

Joe Miller talks to a Homer audience Sunday.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Miller says campaign all about ‘restoring liberty’

Four years after he won the Republican Party nomination for U.S. Senate only to lose in a historic…

Homer Volunteer Fire Department, Kachemak Emergency Services and Alaska Division of Forestry firefighters respond to the Rainbow Court fire last Friday. A person died in the fire.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Positive ID of fire victim still pending

The State Medical Examiner has not yet positively identified the adult killed in a house fire last Friday.…