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Homer High School students rehearse on Thursday, March 24, 2022, for their production of "Schoolhouse Rocks!" The musical showed last weekend. (Photo by Mariah McGuire/Homer High School Mariner Year Book)

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If you’ve lived in Alaska at least one winter, you know that on Friday we’ll experience the biggest…

Tela O'Donnell Bacher speaks at a TedX talk in Anchorage on Saturday, March 19, 2022. (Photograph by Charly Savely. Used under a Creative Commons license at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0)

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‘You don’t know what you don’t know’

Homer Olympian Tela O’Donnell Bacher speaks at TEDx talks in Anchorage.

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Unhinged Alaska: Here we go again …

If memory serves, the years leading up to 2008 inflation had quite a run

The Homer Police Station as seen Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020 in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

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Cops and Courts

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Hatcher James Olson

Hatcher James Olson was born at 1:45 a.m. March 17, 2022, at South Peninsula Hospital to Stevie Audrey…

Pets of the Week: Diva and Smokey. (Photo by Alaska Mindful Paws)

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Pets of the Week: Diva and Smokey

Smokey and Diva have been through a lot of big changes recently, but they’re ready to find a…

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Alaska State Parks is currently accepting applications for vacancies on three Kenai Peninsula state park advisory boards. The…

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Kachemak Nordic Ski Club volunteers Roy Wilson, left, and Carl Brinkerhoff, right, keep a snow bridge over Diamond Ridge Road in shape for skiers competing in the Kachemak Marathon race on Saturday, March 19, 2022, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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The Russians have a marvelous word for what we here in Alaska call “break up”: rasputitsa. Loosely translated,…

Bunnell Street Arts Center visiting artist-in-residence Berith Stennabb poses next to one of her pieces, "Anomicholistic ar.35." (Photo by Sean McDermott)

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Connected Threads: A Swedish and Alaska Artist Exchange

By Sean McDermott

Pet of the Week: Topanga. (Photo by Alaska Mindful Paws)

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Pet of the Week: Topanga

Look at this sweet gal, Topanga! Boy does she have our hearts down here at the shelter. We…