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Little Fireweed students collect beach clay north of Bishop’s Beach with artist David Kauffman on Feb. 20 for their week with the artist in the school.

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Making art from the earth

Artist in the School David Kauffman and Little Fireweed students create with local clay

High tide on the Homer Spit, late February, photo by Christina Whiting.

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Best Bets

Written by English author Thomas Fuller in 1732 and regularly included in The Farmer’s Almanac, the saying “March…

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Cops and Courts

Cops &courts

Posing stiffly in the bow of the M.S. Hygiene, along the Alaska coast, is Nurse Grace Heutink, clad in a warm fur parka. (Photo courtesy of the Fenger Family Collection)

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Medical establishment comes to Homer — Part 1

In the early days of formal medicine in Homer, doctors and dentists were often forced to improvise.

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Phoebe is a 7-year-old female.

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Pet of the Week: Phoebe

Phoebe has been here for 66 days! She’s our current longest stay and we can’t figure out why!…

Ann-Margaret Wimmerstedt heats a plywood board for painting with encaustics on July 20, 2018 at Wimmerstedt’s home as artist Carla Klinker-Cope watches.

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Bringing art back to life

Longtime Homer artist values process over product, shifts from painting to mending

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Phoebe is a 7-year-old female.

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Pet of the Week: Phoebe

Phoebe is still here! She’s our current longest stay and we can’t STILL figure out why! She’s sweet…

Baklava. (Photo by Tressa Dale)

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Accidental baklava

A while back, someone accidentally grabbed three boxes of phyllo dough instead of the puff pastry they were…

Jennifer Gibbons and her dog Tiptoe enjoy the Homer Winter Carnival parade on Saturday, Feb. 11, 2023. (Photo by Christina Whiting/Homer News)

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Best Bets

While Lower 48’ers are making plans for spring break, we Alaskans are making plans for spring breakup, as…

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Cops and Courts

Information about fire, police, and troopers is taken from public records consisting of logbooks and press releases.

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“The Student,” a painting by Counsel Langley, is on display at the Homer Public Library through March, acrylic, graphite on canvas, 40” x 30”. Painted in 2023.

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On the edge, questioning boundaries

Homer artist Counsel Langley exhibits at library

Fia, 1 year old female at Homer Animal Shelter.

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Pet of the Week: Fia

Fia, 1-year-old female, is a little gal with a big heart. She is gentle, affectionate, easy going, and…

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Deadline for Anchorage Symphony music scholarship March 15

Alaska high school music students have until March 15 to apply for a scholarship supporting young Alaska musicians,…