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Nick Varney

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Thanksgiving memories of the unhinged kind

Let’s take a first look at the oncoming day of feasting

Valentine

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Pet of the Week: Valentine

Valentine, a 7-year-old female, is being very patient as she waits for her furever home. She is a…

"Raven Berry" by Susan Watkins is one of the pieces in the 5x7 show opening Friday at the Homer Council on the Arts. (Photo provided)

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November exhibits warm up town with the fire of creativity

First Friday for November shows that as the season grows colder, Homer’s art scene continues to warm with…

The hull of a wrecked boat lies on the Homer Spit beach on Friday afternoon, Oct. 21, 2022, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Best Bets

A lone boat washed ashore, torn asunder. It looks pitiful and decrepit, with a stern completely annihilated and…

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Cops and Courts

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

Artemis

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Pet of the Week: Artemis and Moo Moo

This 1-year-old brother-sister duo are just the sweetest. They’re about a year old and ready for their furever…

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A still photo from digital video, “The Runner,” by Sussanah Webster and Michael Walsh.

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‘All Souls Night’: A pop-up cinema event of performance and moving image art

“All Souls Night” will be an evening extravaganza of experimental and avant-garde film, music, and performance art. Curated…

There’s no shortage of pumpkins and gourds at local stores, just in time for the Halloween season. (Photo by Christina Whiting/Homer News)

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Best Bets

Across the Peninsula, and beyond, parents are in all stages of creating, mending, and/or shopping for their kid’s…

A Homer Youth Orchestra Club rehearsal is conducted by Abimael Melendez. (Photo Courtesy Kim Fine)

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Youth orchestra to bring the sounds of Halloween to costume concert

Homer OPUS’s Homer Youth String Orchestra Club will bring seasonal sounds and storytelling to the city on Sunday…

The masthead for the Homer Weekly News as sketched by Alathea Clymer of Fritz Creek Studios.

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Years Ago

Homer happenings from years past

Elizabeth Chilson of Soldotna reads an excerpt of her first place fiction piece, “Signe and the Snow,” om October 2021 at Homer Council on the Arts as part of 24th Kenai Peninsula Writer’s Contest. (Photo provided)

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Writing, sharing, connecting

Peninsula Writers Contest returns for its 25th year

Sunday’s 21-foot afternoon tide and 50-mile-an-hour winds closed the Homer Spit Road for several hours so that City plows could remove rocks and debris as the water splashed over boulders and onto the road, with hundreds of community members watching from local beaches. This week, crews are moving soil from the City’s dredge pile to replace lost soil at the boardwalks. (Photo by Christina Whiting/Homer News)
Collins Construction workers rebuild soil damaged during Sunday’s storm, paid by private businesses on the boardwalk, with material coming from the City dredge pile free of charge, Oct. 11, 2022. (Photo by Christina Whiting/Homer News)

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Best Bets

Holy howling winds and talk about surf’s up! Did you race to a local beach to take in…

Candy pecans make a roadtrip sweet snack. (Photo by Tressa Dale/Peninsula Clarion)

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Sweet treats for the road

Candied pecans accompany more subued wandering