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A reader board sign on the Sterling Highway announces COVID-19 testing and vaccines at the South

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COVID-19 rates declining

No new deaths, hospitalizations reported for the weekend.

The cover of Madeline A. Hawthorne’s “A Christmas Parade,” published by Olympia Publishing.

Community

‘A Christmas Parade’ is local author’s first book

Just in time for Christmas, a new Homer writer and artist has published her first book. Bumblebee Books,…

Snow on Heath Street is blown into a truck, which will later be dumped near Public Works. (Photo by Sarah Knapp/Homer News)

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Storm wallops Homer

Blizzard clogged roads, shut down school and buried southern peninsula.

Diamond Ridge Road near Homer, Alaska, had been plowed on Monday morning, Dec. 5, 2021, but visibility was limited. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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School district announces 90-minute early release today.

Winter storms makes driving difficult on southern Kenai Peninsula.

A school closure announcement from the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District.

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Schools closed for Tuesday in Homer, Anchor Point

Winter storm continues through Tuesday morning, with high winds.

Ceramic art by Jeff Szarzi shows for December at Ptarmigan Arts in Homer, Alaska. (Photo courtesy of Ptarmigan Arts)

Community

First Friday art exhibit openings include pop-up weekend show at Ptarmigan Arts.

McNett also featured at Bunnell Street Arts Center.

Michael Armstrong and his dog Leia harvest a Christmas tree in December 2013 on his land on Diamond Ridge near Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Jenny Stroyeck)

Sports

If you don’t have your own tree lot, harvest trees on public lands — and stay off private property.

As I postholed through 3-foot deep snow in my Diamond Ridge driveway this Sunday, I thought back to…

Democratic Party candidate for governor Les Gara attends a Zoom meeting with Homer residents on Nov. 18, 2021, from his Anchorage, Alaska, home. (Screen capture)

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Gara makes election pitch to Homer

Democratic Party candidate for governor Gara visits virtually.

A reader board sign on the Sterling Highway announces COVID-19 testing and vaccines at the South

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Anchor Point man dies of COVID-19

Death rate of COVID-19 is now 17 since start of the pandemic.

The new Homer Police Station, as seen Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020 in Homer, Alaska. Members of the Homer Police Department officially moved into the building on Thursday. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

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K-9 trooper team finds lost girl

Prompt action by a missing girl’s family, Alaska State Troopers, Homer Police and Homer Volunteer Fire Department firefighters…

A reader board sign on the Sterling Highway announces COVID-19 testing and vaccines at the South

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No current COVID-19 patients at South Peninsula Hospital

Test rates, ER visits and admissions are dropping for Homer

Family practice physician Christina Tuomi, D.O., (right) gets Homer’s first dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine from Emergency Department nurse Steve Hughes (left) on Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020 at South Peninsula Hospital in Homer, Alaska. Tuomi has been the hospital’s medical lead throughout the pandemic. (Photo courtesy Derotha Ferraro/South Peninsula Hospital)

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Feds issue vaccine mandate to health care workers; Dunleavy joins lawsuit against the rule

Rule by CMS applies to hospitals, rural health clinics, community mental health centers.

A map of Kachemak Bay State Park shows proposed land additions A, B and C in House Bill 52 and the Tutka Bay Lagoon Hatchery. (Map courtesy of Alaska State Parks)

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HB 52 ‘cures’ land disposal issue of Tutka Bay Lagoon Hatchery

HB 52 would take hatchery out of Kachemak State Park and add also lands to park.