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Homer Farmers Market: Beauty of buying fresh veggies — better taste

This manic time of the year is so different from the dark times of the winter when I…

Homer’s Bishop’s Beach Park was the location for an enactment of public participatory art on Sunday, Aug. 1, 2021, in Homer, Alaska. A ground design of colored fabric was created to convey a message of “Alaska United,” “Teamwork Makes the Dream Work” and “Thank You Water Protectors.” The public was invited to be part of the art by standing and sitting around the central design. Salmon sculptures, raven and sandhill crane puppets, Alaska flags and colored bandanas were an added touch to the overhead image depicting salmon solidarity.  The project was led by Mavis Muller and was the finale to her series of 12 annual aerial group photos for the protection of Alaska’s Bristol Bay. Photographer Russell Campbell captured the photo from a bucket lift at 35 feet high.
“Art is communication. With our creativity and imagination we can inspire new possibilities, and we can have fun doing it,” Muller said. (Photograph by Russell Campbell)

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A friend calls the end of the tourist season “Augusts,” as in “Oh boy, it’s been a long…

Spectators relax while listening to a musician at the Ocean Stage at Salmonfest on Friday, Aug. 2, 2019 in Ninilchik, Alaska. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

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Salmonfest returns — cautiously and in expanded space

10th festival will be more spread out and completely outdoors.

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Bodett, Yoshida and Howard were first donors to foundation

Three donations helped create Homer Foundation.

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Homer Farmers Market: Liven up your salads

I have a friend visiting right now who is on a quest to make salads beautiful. It’s not…

Mavis Muller, center, with bull horn, arranged Salmonfest attendees for an aerial art event in the rodeo arena at Kenai Peninsula Fairgrounds near Ninilchik, Alaska. (Photo courtesy of Mavis Muller)

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Aerial art circles back to its origins

Human mosiac art project happens Sunday at Bishop’s Beach.

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Homer Foundation at 30: Foundation anticipated Exxon Valdez ‘spillionaires’

If upheld, $5 billion in civil suit damages from Exxon Valdez would have made many locals wealthy and…

Veronica in full vibrant bloom is a welcome sight in the perennial border. (Photo by Rosemary Fitzpatrick)

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Kachemak Gardener: Be patient with gardening and have hope

Sun, rain have cause perennials and shrubs to bloom magnificently.

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Homer Farmers Market: More to see than food vendors

Services include blade sharpening, canner gauge testing.

Lupines bloom along the Homestead Trail on Diamond Ridge, as seen Sunday, July 11, 2021, near Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Wildflowers bloom in the hills

Diamond Ridge hike offers wildflowers, views of Kachemak Bay and Cook Inlet.

The cover of Doug Dodd's "Hero Unaware" features a photo of Walter Dodd in his U.S. Navy uniform at the start of World War II.

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‘Hero Unaware’ based on author’s compilation of father’s war correspondence.

Letters home span the entire length of World War II from a Navy corpsman’s perspective.

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Homer Foundation at 30: Foundation born from need to manage endowments

Another in a series of short historical reminiscences to mark the 30th anniversary of the Homer Foundation, Alaska’s…

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Homer Farmers Market: Market helps build relationships

Even though the rain came down Saturday morning, the Homer Farmers Market still had plenty of folks streaming…