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Pet of the Week: Toto

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Pet of the Week: Toto

Pet of the Week Meet Toto, a neutered male though to be 5-7 years old. Toto is a…

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Keene Zachary Johnson

Keene Zachary Johnson was born at 9:54 p.m. Aug. 22, 2017, at South Peninsula Hospital to Samantha and…

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Kachemak Crane Watch needs participation during Kachemak Crane Watch’s annual Count Days. Kachemak Crane Watch would like to…

Pianist Miki Siwada plays at Bunnell Street Arts Center, Homer, Alaska, on Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017 during her Gather Hear Alaska tour. From New York, Sawada has been touring Alaska in a van with a piano, and visited Kenai and Soldotna. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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It’s official. Sadly, with Labor Day just around the bend, we Homorites can no longer pretend our summer…

A Tahitian drumming workshop in Nanwalek was standing room only (Photo provided)

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Te`arama group visits peninsula

Between Aug. 14 and 19, Seattle-based Tahitian performance group Te`arama conducted cultural exchanges with communities around the lower…

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Arts briefs

Pratt seeks art donations for Ritz The Pratt Museum seeks donations or art for Ritz, the museum’s annual…

Art from Deb Lowney’s “Going with the Flow.” (Photo provided)

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September shows feature last summer exhibits

First Friday kicks off the Labor Day weekend with the last summer showing of art shows. At the…

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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…

Pet of the Week: Possum

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Pet of the Week: Possum

Pet of the Week Meet Possum, a 3-year-old female. Good news my friend Sully was adopted this weekend…

A row of skin kayaks is on display at a previous Kachemak Bay Wooden Boat Festival last Saturday. (Homer News file photo)

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Wooden boat fest celebrates big 2-5

Since its start in May 1993, the annual Kachemak Bay Wooden Boat Society Festival has moved in both…

Clouds parted briefly over Homer, Alaska, at about 8:45 a.m. during a partial eclipse of the sun in this view taken from Diamond Ridge on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017. (Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News)

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As we all know, Homer along with the rest of the country was recently subject to a solar…

Hundreds participated in the 7th annual Salmonfest Action of Art on Aug. 5, 2017 and led by installation artist Mavis Muller. Volunteers helped Muller create the installation art. Muller said the art “was meant to send a strong message of advocacy for Alaska’s waterways and the salmon which are ‘canaries in the coal mine.’ alerting us to the impact of climate change on the health of our communities and entire ecosystem.” (Aerial drone photo taken by John Newton)

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Arts briefs

Basket build starts Sept. 2 The 14th annual Homer Burning Basket project of community interactive, impermanent art runs…

Visitors to the Pratt Museum look at “Wild Alaska,” above, by Karla Moss Freeman, and a 1900 map of the Cook Inlet Coal Fields railroad, one of the historic pieces included in cARTography exhibit Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2017 at the Pratt Museum, Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News)

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cARTography exhibit blends art, mapmaking

The Pratt Museum’s latest exhibit, cARTography, makes a typeface play, emphasizing “art” in the word. That also pays…