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The Anchor Point Fire &Emergency Medical Service Area Board will hold its next board meeting at 6:30 p.m.…

A cow moose and newborn twin calves graze in the grass on the side of Diamond Ridge Road near Shelton Drive on Saturday evening, June 2, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Best Bets

The dog days of summer are here, folks. Do you, like the Betster, find yourself scrambling about the…

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Festival of Literary Reading is this weekend

In conjunction with the 17th annual Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference, visiting faculty present readings this weekend, June 9…

Pets of the Week: Barney and Wilma

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Pets of the Week: Barney and Wilma

Barney and Wilma are 9-month-old siblings. Yabba dabba doo! Meet this comical full-of-energy pair. Barney (bottom) is very…

Saint-Malo, France, in April 2018, as seen at low tide. The setting of Anthony Doerr’s “All the Light We Cannot See,” the town on the coast of Breton was heavily destroyed in the liberation of France in World War II. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Writers conference keynote speaker considers time, setting and the control of information

In his novels and short stories, Anthony Doerr, this year’s keynote speaker at the Kachemak Bay Writers Conference,…

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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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Suzanna Lily Lasiter

Suzanna Lily Lasiter was born at 12:12 p.m. on Thursday, May 24, 2018 at South Peninsula Hospital to…

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Benjamin Tyler Bottineau

Benjamin Tyler Bottineau was born at 7:57 p.m. Thursday, May 24, 2018 at South Peninsula Hospital to Kristina…

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Delilah Irene Wells

Delilah Irene Wells was born at 4:36 a.m. on May 22, 2018 at South Peninsula Hospital to Devyn…

Announcements

Town Crier

The Anchor Point Fire &Emergency Medical Service Area Board will hold its next board meeting at 6:30 p.m.…

Start summer with a taste of seafood

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Start summer with a taste of seafood

It’s “sun-officially” summer. The rivers on the lower Kenai Peninsula are open for salmon fishing and we enjoyed…

Members of the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars hold flags on Memorial Day, May 28, 2018, at Hickerson Memorial Cemetery, Homer, for services there. (Photo by Michael Armstrong / Homer News)

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Best Bets

This past Monday, Homerites young and old took time to remember the veterans who gave their lives for…

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First Friday

Art Shop Gallery 202 W. Pioneer Ave. Original Collages by Linda Guitta Corey 5-7:30 p.m., First Friday Reception…