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The Kachemak Bay Birders’ next trip is to Seaside Farms, Mile 5 East End Road on Sunday, March…

On the first day of Daylight Saving Time on Sunday, March 11, 2018 seagulls fly over the Homer Spit, Alaska. Fresh snow covered the beach to the high tide line. (Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News)

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Best Bets

If you’re reading this online from your Maui vacation cottage, Betsteroids, congratulate yourself on escaping for spring break…

Tom Collopy, left, and Mary Frische, right. (Photo provided)

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Wildlife photographers close life chapter

Just like a hobbit can take a second breakfast, some people get a second retirement — a closing…

Pet of the Week: Sarah

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Pet of the Week: Sarah

Pet of the Week Sarah is an 8-year-old female cat. A strong, independent feline who knows what she…

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Juniper Eve Fonkert

Editor’s note: This birth announcement has been updated to correct spellings of several names. Juniper Eve Fonkert was…

Raspberry lemon corn muffins (Photo by Teri Robl)

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Spicy soup and muffins will cheer you up during flu season

The influenza bug hit the Other fisherman and I hard this last week. I don’t think I have…

TOP: Artist in Residence Jaimie Warren, center, discusses how to make a log costume with Mila Stickrod, left, and Alex Franklin, right, at her temporary studio at Bunnell Street Arts Center. The Brooklyn, New York, artist visits Homer this month. (Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News)

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Bunnell artist residency aims to make a big mess — and something cool

In artist residencies sponsored by Bunnell Street Arts Center over the past few years, a clear pattern seems…

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Cops and Courts

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

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Rowan Bethany Hilterbrand

Rowan Bethany Hilterbrand was born at 5:21 p.m. on Wednesday, March 1, 2018 at South Peninsula Hospital to…

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Johannes Steven Beile

Johannes Steven Beile was born at 7:32 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2018 at South Peninsula Hospital to…

Announcements

Town Crier

The Homer Fish &Game Advisory Committee will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 13 at the KBRR building…

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Arts briefs

Marilyn Sigman launches book Author Marilyn Sigman visits Homer this weekend for the launch of her book, “Entangled:…

A cow moose munches on some bushes Thursday, March 1, 2018 on Ohlson Mountain Road outside Homer, Alaska. She, another moose and a calf browsed just along the side of the road, where the snow was slightly less deep. With March bringing with it the whiplash of repeated snow falls and thawing, many moose are gravitating toward roads to give themselves an easier time navigating. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

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Best Bets

Parents, brace yourselves. If you thought figuring out what to do with your various offspring for an extra…