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A street sweeper on Tuesday, April 19, 2022, cleans the bike and pedestrian lane on Ocean Drive in Homer, Alaska. Cleaning sand and debris off the side of the road will make Ocean Drive safer for Homer's growing bicycle community. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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After decades of living in Alaska, the betster knows not to second guess the weather. Heck, you don’t…

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The new Anchor River Bridge spans the river next to the road to the old bridge, as see on Thursday, April 9, 2022, in Anchor Point, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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The Betster isn’t too sure about if spring really has come, but you know what you can be…

David Rosenthal describes work from his travels around the Arctic Ocean and through the Northwest Passage from his show, "Painting at the Edge of the Ice Age," at the Pratt Museum & Park in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Sean McDermott)

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A Chronicle of Vanishing Ice

A Chronicle of Vanishing Ice: A new exhibition at the Pratt Museum by painter David Rosenthal

McNeil Canyon Elementary School student Cedar Galbraith's watercolor and ink painting. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Jubilee! art show highlights youth talent

The Homer Council on the Arts annual Jubilee! Youth Art show runs through the end of April at…

Mutlidisciplinary and performance artist Jesse Egner speaks Friday, April 1, 2022, at Bunnell Street Arts Center in Homer, Alaska, for the start of his residency. (Photo provided)

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The kids are all right in First Friday shows

New exhibits opening this month show the talents of Homer’s emerging artists — youth artists from kindergarten through…

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Homer High School students rehearse on Thursday, March 24, 2022, for their production of "Schoolhouse Rocks!" The musical showed last weekend. (Photo by Mariah McGuire/Homer High School Mariner Year Book)

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If you’ve lived in Alaska at least one winter, you know that on Friday we’ll experience the biggest…

Tela O'Donnell Bacher speaks at a TedX talk in Anchorage on Saturday, March 19, 2022. (Photograph by Charly Savely. Used under a Creative Commons license at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0)

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‘You don’t know what you don’t know’

Homer Olympian Tela O’Donnell Bacher speaks at TEDx talks in Anchorage.

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Unhinged Alaska: Here we go again …

If memory serves, the years leading up to 2008 inflation had quite a run

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It takes a cosmic village Kachemak Nordic Ski Club volunteers Roy Wilson, left, and Carl Brinkerhoff, right, keep a snow bridge over Diamond Ridge Road in shape for skiers competing in the Kachemak Marathon race on Saturday, March 19, 2022, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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The Russians have a marvelous word for what we here in Alaska call “break up”: rasputitsa. Loosely translated,…

Bunnell Street Arts Center visiting artist-in-residence Berith Stennabb poses next to one of her pieces, "Anomicholistic ar.35." (Photo by Sean McDermott)

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Connected Threads: A Swedish and Alaska Artist Exchange

By Sean McDermott