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The 10 participants in season 9 of "Alone," premiering on May 26, 2022, on the History Channel. Terry Burns of Homer is the third from left, back. Another Alaskan in the series, Jacques Tourcotte of Juneau, is the fourth from left, back. (Photo by Brendan George Ko/History Channel)

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Homer man goes it ‘Alone’

Burns brings lifetime of wilderness experience to survival series.

People attend a grief circle for Anesha "Duffy" Murnane on Wednseday, May 18, 2022, at WKFL Park in Homer, Alaska. A Homer man has been charged with the murder and kidnapping of Murnane, who went missing on Oct. 17, 2019. The circle was held to give people a chance to mourn and remember Murnane. Homer artist Mavia Muller built a basket for people to place spruce cones in as tokens of memory for Murnane. Muller said the smaller basket will be place in the next Burning Basket, to be called "Breathe." "It feels like after years of holding our breath we can finally breathe," Muller said at the grief circle. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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If you’re melanin challenged and got out and about last weekend, you probably developed a case of racoon…

Eli Springer of Fairbanks does his impression of an eagle call for the Homer Brewing Company's bird calling contest during the Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival on Saturday, May 7, 2022, in Homer, Alaska. The winner of the serious bird call contest was Cohen McBride of Homer, with his eagle call. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Last weekend proved the truth in the Norwegian saying: Det finnes ikke dårlig vær, bare dårlige klær,” which…

Members of Breezy Berryman's dance troupe make an appearance for the Homer Brewing Company's bird calling contest during the Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival on Saturday, May 7, 2022, in Homer, Alaska. The troupe performed "The Ballet of the Birds" earlier that day and later that evening at the Land's End Quarterdeck. From left to right are Christina Platter, Ireland Styvar, Reilly-Sue Baker and Natalia Sherwood. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Arts briefs

Bed of Roses performs Friday

May Fekete’s portrait by Sarah Lewis is one of the photographs in the exhibit, "Pandemic Portraits," on display through Sept. 19, 2021, at Land’s End Resort in Homer, Alaska. (Photo courtesy of Sarah Lewis and Affinity Films)

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First Friday art exhibit openings feature bird-themed art

Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival featured artist Stacy Studebaker is one of many artists showing bird-themed art.

Rhubarb has begun to grow on Tuesday, May 3, 2022, on Diamond Ridge near Homer, Alaska. At about elevation 1,200 feet, from 6 inches to a foot of snow remains on the ground, proof of the hardiness of the treasured Alaska plant. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Spring sure has been slow coming to town, but now the Betster feels safe in saying that, yeah,…

Artist Amber Webb starts works on a new drawing at Bunnell Street Arts Center. Her work will be on display at the gallery through the month of May. (Photo by Sean McDermott)

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Bunnell artist in residence explore the blurred boundaries between sorrow and celebration, hardship and healing.

Webbs works explores the question: “What does it mean to honor the spirit of another being?”

Photo by Ellen Jakovich. Numerous bird tracks can be seen in this photo of a cast made of a rock slab containing ancient bird tracks discovered by Steve Friend on the Anchor Point beach east of the Anchor River.

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Ancient shorebird tracks on display for festival

Cast of shorebird tracks will be on display for Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival.

Members of the Homer Mariner baseball team wash cars for a fundraiser on Saturday, April 23, 2022, at Wells Fargo in Homer, Alaska. The Mariners play Friday vs. Redington High School in Wasila and Saturday vs. Barlett and Service in Anchorage. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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It takes nerves of steel to attempt the near-impossible during break-up: get your car washed (see above). Nonetheless,…

Writer Toni Jensen is part of the visiting faculty teaching at the 25th Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference. (Photo provided)

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It’s back: Writers’ Conference returns

20th Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference returns in new location in downtown Homer.

A humpback whale breeches in Kachemak Bay in a photo taken July 2019. (Photo by Emma Luck)

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Homer’s First Marine Mammal Forum

For marine naturalist Emma Luck, seeing whales and other wildlife in Kachemak Bay was part of growing up…

A trumpeter swan swims in open water on Beluga Lake on Thursday, April 14, 2022, in Homer, Alaska. Part of a pair, the swan was first seen the day before. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Signs of spring

Swans return and flowers bloom.

Nathan Hall (left) and Jesse Egner (right) play a duet Hall composed that was inspired by dried stalks of cow parsnips at Bunnell Streer Arts Center in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Sean McDermott)

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Screenwriting, cyanotypes and a sonic portrait

A trio of artists visit Bunnell Street Arts Center in April as Artists in residence.