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April ‘First Friday’ could be called ‘First Weekend’

So much happens with arts events this weekend, the monthly preview of First Friday should be called First…

August Kilcher and the cast of Working: A Musical sing the opening song of the first act, All the Livelong Day, to kick off the start of the show during a Saturday, March 25 rehearsal.-Photo by Anna Frost, Homer News

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Working: A Musical focuses on the average-joe

The latest musical performed by Homer High School students is a departure from the typical production. Instead of…

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Court Report

Court records show the following actions taken in Homer District Court through March 18: Judgments Joseph Kuzmin, 40,…

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Trooper Report

March 12 Alaska State Troopers at 12:03 a.m. went to a report of the death of an 80-year-old…

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Homer Police

March 14 A caller at 6:41 p.m. reported an injured bird. Police provided the caller with the phone…

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Kachemak Emergency Services

March 14-20 Firefighters and emergency medical technicians went to three medical calls and three fire calls.

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Homer Fire

March 14-20 Firefighters and emergency medical technicians went to 12 medical calls, one smoke investigation and one fire…

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Anchor Point Fire and Emergency Services

March 14-20 Firefighters and emergency medical technicians went to three medical calls.

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Hayden Marie Toner

Hayden Marie Toner was born at 12:13 a.m. March 19, 2016, at South Peninsula Hospital to Carissa and…

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Annoumcements

Girl Scout troops will be selling cookies in Homer from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday at Redden Marine-Kachemak Gear…

The Easter Bunny arrives by Maritime Helicopters at a previous Easter Egg Hunt at the Homer Elks Lodge. The aerial arrival of the Easter Bunny has been a longtime tradition for the Elks Easter event.-Homer News file photo

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Homer’s Best Bets

To seasoned Alaskans it should come as no surprise that spring started with a pleasant little flurry of…

The Arts in Brief

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The Arts in Brief

Artist Julianne Tomich holds talk at library   Homer artist Julianne Tomich’s paintings of birds are featured in…

Valisa Higman, left, and Erin McKittrick, right, with McKittrick’s children, Katmai, left, amd Lituya, right. Katmai was the boy who inspired their book, “My Coyote Nose and Ptarmigan Toes.”-Photo povided

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Seldovia writer, artist debut new children’s book

In April 2013, starting from their Seldovia home, Erin McKittrick and Bretwood Higman and their two children, Katmai,…