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Gas will boost area’s economy

Editor’s Note: With natural gas getting closer to Homer every day, questions abound. The last story in this…

Paul Banks Elementary School students work on their art. The school holds its annual Arts Extravaganza from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday.-Photo provided

Arts & Entertainment

Youth art featured in show

With youth art shows at the Homer Council on the Arts, the Pratt Museum and Paul Banks Elementary…

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Public testimony on anadromous stream ordinance clear: Repeal it

A political science student could have garnered good field research Monday night at the Anchor Point Senior Center…

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Hearing continued in highway shooting

A court hearing for an Anchor Point woman accused of shooting at an Alaska Wildlife Trooper on the…

Eva Saulitis-Photo by Jon Leibling

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Memoir follows loss, decline of orca group in Prince William Sound

For writers, books don’t appear whole out of thin air. Instead, like orca whales sliding underwater, they can…

A 27-foot Bay Weld boat sits outside the Bay Welding shop on East End Road.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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100 boats later, Bay Weld celebrates

From a 20-foot skiff to its newest and biggest boat, the 42-foot P/V Churchill, Bay Welding has been…

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What next? Enstar, city officials urge residents to do their homework

Editor’s note: With natural gas to Homer getting closer every day, questions abound. In a three-part series starting…

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Crashes in Ninilchik, Voznesenka injure three

Two separate car crashes, one involving a pedestrian and the other a four-wheeler, sent three people to the…

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‘Grease’ goes back to the ’50s for spring musical

If you’ve been seeing boys walking around town in black-leather jackets and rolled up jeans and girls in…

The Endeavour-Spirit of Independence jack-up rig is scheduled to leave the Deep Water Dock on Tuesday to make room for replacement of fenders on the dock. That work starts next week.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Buccaneer files counterclaim in suit

In a counterclaim responding to a $6.5 million lawsuit filed by Archer Drilling, Buccaneer Energy Ltd. charges that…

Moose browse on willow bushes near Beluga Slough in the 2011 winter.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Moose population healthy, bulls recovering

In thinking about our own backyard, the wilderness and near-wilderness surrounding us isn’t just our playground. It’s the…

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Condo owner files suit over gas line assessment

The owner of several business condominiums has filed a lawsuit in Superior Court against the city of Homer…

Dan Fischer, left, and Deb Lowney, right stand by one of their sculptures.

Arts & Entertainment

Artists combine talents in ‘Sticks and Stones’

Sticks and stones may break your bones, but when it comes to nature inspired art, they do something…