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House Bill 77, budget likely to be hot topics

With the second year of the 28th Alaska Legislature having started last week, Homer’s legislators are looking at…

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Council seeks consensus on Asaiah statue

For once, it wasn’t déjà vu all over again at a Homer City Council meeting. Unlike in October…

A woman walks her dog past WKFL Park on Tuesday.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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WKFL Park not new to controversy

Editor’s note: With 2014 marking the Homer News 50th anniversary, it’s the perfect time to look at Homer’s…

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Council takes food tax holiday repeal off table

In the latest version of a Homer City Council attempt to repeal a seasonal holiday on sales taxes…

Peter Larson

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Peter Larson remembered as true leader

Teacher, principal, woodworker, musician and consummate volunteer: Peter Larson, a man everyone called a natural-born leader, died Monday…

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Commission does not reconsider Quiet Creek

In a 4-2 vote against, the Homer Advisory Planning Commission last week did not pass a motion to…

In this photo provided by Alaska State Troopers of a fatal truck crash, which occurred Wednesday morning, drilling mud tanks can be seen in a field on the south side of the road near Mile 9.5 East End Road. A Soldotna truck driver, Trevor Cunningham, 29, was ejected from the truck and pronounced dead at South Peninsula Hospital.-Photo provided by Alaska State Troopers

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Truck driver hauling drilling mud dies Wednesday in East End crash

A Soldotna truck driver hauling drilling mud was killed Wednesday in a crash near Mile 9.5 East End…

This maquette, or small sculpture study, by artist Leo Vait shows what the proposed bronze statue would look like of Brother Asaiah.-Photo by Linda Smogor

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Brother Asaiah statue raises issue of how best to honor him

What would Brother Asaiah do? That question is at the heart of a dilemma many small cities would…

“Lacon de Catalonia”

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Mountainfilm

Even if you’ve never taken a Community Recreation class or played in a Community Rec sport like Pickle…

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Senior Citizens hit by check fraud

Criminals who forged fraudulent checks appearing to be from Homer Senior Citizens Inc. pushed through $10,000 in checks…

Disability rights specialist Rick Malley, left, visits with Independent Living Center director Joyanna Geisler, right, in her office. The ILC recently moved into new offices on Pioneer Avenue and held an open house last Friday.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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ILC opens at new Pioneer location

An open house last Friday offered visitors a chance to tour the new Independent Living Center offices and…

Ice racers during the first Homer Winter Carnival in 1955.-Photo provided by Ray Kranich from the Wythe family collection

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Beluga Lake Ice Racing going on 60 years

Editor’s note: With 2014 marking the Homer News 50th anniversary, it’s the perfect time to look at Homer’s…

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HEA lineman recovering from electrical accident

A Homer Electric Association lineman was medevaced to Seattle Jan. 8 following an electrical accident. Jacob Adams, 33,…