‘pH’ novel takes new tack to novel: fiction about science

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‘pH’ novel takes new tack to novel: fiction about science

Science fiction as predictive literature has its limits, but the writer Frederik Pohl noted one value to the…

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Kilchers to host benefit concert for John Colia Jr. The Kilcher family will play a preview concert in…

Kendall Dellasperanza, a teacher at McNeil Canyon Elementary School, helps some of her fourth grade students transfer trash from one bag to another Friday, Sept. 22, 2017 during the Kachemak Bay CoastWalk at Mariner Park in Homer, Alaska. Citizen groups, including classes from multiple schools, adopt a section of Kachemak Bay shoreline to clean up during the annual event hosted by the Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News.)

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CoastWalk cleans up beaches and monitors ecology

Students from McNeil Canyon Elementary School walking the Homer Spit beaches last Friday have become the latest generation…

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Tsunami Potential of Grewingk Glacier Lake – A First Look. This presentation will take place at 7 p.m.…

Pet of the Week: Jazzy

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Pet of the Week: Jazzy

Pet of the Week Jazzy is an 8-week-old kitten and is here with her siblings, and yes they…

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Cops and Courts

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

Foma Reutov, a freshman, ties up his shoes before a Cougars football practice Friday, Sept. 1, 2017 at McNeil Canyon Elementary in Fritz Creek, Alaska. The team, usually made up of a mix of students from the Russian Old Believer Villages Voznesenka, Razdolna and Kachemak-Selo, is in its fifth year as a varsity, 11-man program. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

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Russian Old Believer football program forges ahead into fifth season

The Head of the Bay Cougars have five seasons and just about as many wins under their belt.…

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For those keeping track, the signs that summer might be ending continue. Kids back in school? Check? Most…

Dar Williams’ “What I Found in a Thousand Towns” (Basic Books, September 2017, $27)

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‘Thousand Towns’ looks at what some cities do right

On her visits to Alaska over the past 20 years, like a lot of visitors to Homer, singer-songwriter…

Zaya McKinley Robinson

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Zaya McKinley Robinson

Zaya McKinley Robinson was born at 11:41 p.m. Sept. 8, 2017, at Homer Birth and Wellness Center to…

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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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Best Bets

Even though the Betster toils in the word mines here at the Homer News and has a modest…

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Arts Briefs

Lord debuts new novel Homer writer Nancy Lord launches her new novel, “pH,” at 6 p.m. Friday at…