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Area greenhouses offer broad, beautiful selection
What a stunning day. We three friends did a commercial greenhouse tour and really, why does anyone start…
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Arts Briefs
Bear Creek Music Fest is Saturday The Bear Creek Music Festival begins at 1 p.m. Saturday at Bear…
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Two new memoirs raise bar for Alaska writing
Editor’s note: This article has been updated to correct a mix up between the title of Ralph Galeano’s…
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Quilters win awards at 33rd annual show
About 300 people attended the Kachemak Bay Quilters’ 33rd annual quilt show, held last Mother’s Day weekend at…
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Pet of the Week: Norm
Pet of the Week Sol: “I am Siamese if you please, and my best friend is, well, not.…
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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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Town Crier
The Kenai Peninsula Borough Solid Waste Department Central Peninsula Landfill and Transfer Facilities and Sites summer operating hours…
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Shorebirds visit right on time
As if turning a switch, thousands of shorebirds arrived May 3, pushed north and west by a storm…
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Arts Briefs
Pier One holds Shakespeare mash-up reading May 18-19 Start the summer season of Pier One Theatre with a…
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Jewel to play at Salmonfest
Continuing a tradition of featuring women musicians to close out the final night, Salmonfest this year brings back…
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Years Ago
20 years ago in the Homer News Work on a Spit erosion project started when a barge with…
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Best Bets
Who loves you, Betsteroids? That’s right — your mama. Don’t forget the annual celebration of mothers this Sunday,…
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Strawberries worth the effort
Strawberries are fraught with enemies. For you to have a bowl of these beauties on your kitchen counter…