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    Articles by Michael Armstrong
    Endeavour gets shipping certificate; spill plan delayed
    Endeavour gets shipping certificate; spill plan delayed
    By Michael Armstrong • March 8, 2013 1:03 pm

    The jack-up rig Endeavour-Spirit of Independence received one of its certifications that will allow it to move soon to the…

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    Homer fish, game panel seeks more community involvement
    Homer fish, game panel seeks more community involvement
    By Michael Armstrong • March 8, 2013 1:02 pm

    With the Alaska Board of Game meeting coming up March 15 to 19 in Kenai, the Homer Fish and Game…

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    Trial in highway shooting postponed
    Trial in highway shooting postponed
    By Michael Armstrong • March 8, 2013 12:57 pm

    The trial of an Anchor Point woman accused of shooting at an Alaska Wildlife Trooper on the Sterling Highway has…

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    Trial delayed in kidnapping case
    Trial delayed in kidnapping case
    By Michael Armstrong • March 8, 2013 12:56 pm

    It wasn’t only that the defendant’s lawyer said he wasn’t ready to go to trial next week in the case…

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    Security officers check passengers leaving and returning to the Holland America cruise ship Amsterdam at the Deep Water Dock during the summer of 2010. The Amsterdam visited Homer nine times that summer after Holland America added a leg to a 14-day cruise that also took the 1,380-passenger ship to Anchorage and Kodiak in southcentral Alaska and to Ketchikan, Skagway, Sitka, Juneau and Victoria, B.C. -Homer News file photo
    Holland America’s Amsterdam to visit Homer in 2014
    By Michael Armstrong • March 8, 2013 12:46 pm

    Although Holland America has no scheduled visits to Homer this summer, the cruise ship company announced last week that the…

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    The Alibi team poses with its treasures at a previous scavenger hunt. From left to right are Mikes Bairamis, Kendall Winslow, Yarrow Jones, Kimber Leigh, Megan Palma, Jasen Cronk, Adam Season and Beau Grenwald.
    St. Pat’s Day Scavenger Hunt: A fun fundraiser...
    By Michael Armstrong • March 8, 2013 12:44 pm

    Like a lot of Homer history, the origins of the St. Patrick’s Day Scavenger Hunt are shrouded in mystery. This…

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    Tim O’Brien, right, signs books for Donna and Wayne Aderhold after the capstone address for O’Brien’s Big Read book, “The Things They Carried.”                            -Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News
    ‘The Things They Carried’ author says writing about...
    By Michael Armstrong • March 8, 2013 12:31 pm

    Lies, two-headed boys and hope. Out of the shared experience of Tim O’Brien’s Big Read book, “The Things They Carried,”…

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    No foul play suspected in Ninilchik woman’s death
    No foul play suspected in Ninilchik woman’s death
    By Michael Armstrong • March 8, 2013 12:25 pm

    The state medical examiner has ruled out foul play or anything suspicious in the case of a Ninilchik woman found…

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    Planning  commission chair resigns
    Planning commission chair resigns
    By Michael Armstrong • March 8, 2013 11:29 am

    The chairperson of the Homer Advisory Planning Commission, Shelly Erickson, resigned last month. In a letter dated Feb. 20, Erickson…

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    First Friday Events
    First Friday Events
    By Michael Armstrong • March 4, 2013 2:50 pm

    By coincidence, common themes sometimes happen at new shows opening at Homer galleries. This month, that theme is explorations in…

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    Project Jukebox makes historic Homer stories available online
    Project Jukebox makes historic Homer stories available online
    By Michael Armstrong • March 4, 2013 2:42 pm

    It’s been almost 17 years since lower Kenai Peninsula residents spoke in informal sessions for the Alaska Communities of Memory…

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    Traffic backs up at the Main Street and Sterling Highway intersection at mid-day last Friday. Crossing the highway or taking a left turn sometimes requires patience and nerves of steel.
    R – O – U – N –...
    By Michael Armstrong • March 4, 2013 2:33 pm

    Over the next few years, downtown Homer will see several intersection and road improvements that will make safer two of…

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    Troopers seize meth lab in car
    Troopers seize meth lab in car
    By Michael Armstrong • March 4, 2013 2:32 pm

    A common traffic violation– failure to signal a turn — led to an arrest last Saturday for methamphetamine possession. The…

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