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Letters Aloud sheds light on flip side of being famous

Three months before “Born to Run” was released, Bruce Springsteen scrawled a note to his landlady explaining that…

Jed

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Pet of the Week

Pet of the Week Jed is a handsome little short-haired tuxedo. At four-months-old he has his whole life…

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Court Report

Court records show the following actions taken in Homer District Court through Nov. 6: Judgments Bret A. Herrick,…

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Homer Police Report

Nov. 4 A caller at 1:04 p.m. reported a dump-truck driver following too close on East End Road…

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Kachemak Emergency Services

Nov. 2-8 Firefighters and emergency medical technicians went to three medical calls and one fire call.

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Homer Fire

Nov. 2-8 Firefighters and emergency medical technicians went to 15 medical calls and three fire calls.

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Anchor Point Fire and Emergency Services

Nov. 2-8 Firefighters and emergency medical technicians went to five medical calls and two fire calls.

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Hadley Claire Siekaniec

Hadley Claire Siekaniec was born at 12:20 p.m. Nov. 4, 2015, at South Peninsula Hospital to Britni and…

Ensign Karl Swanson

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Military News

ENS Karl Swanson graduated Oct. 15 from Navy Nuclear Power School in Charleston, S.C. He is a 2010…

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Announcements

The Kachemak Emergency Service Area Board holds its regular monthly board meeting at 7 p.m. today. The meeting…

Homer City Council member Heath Smith takes the oath of office at a special meeting on Monday. Smith was elected in a run-off election on Nov. 3 when he defeated incumbent council member Beauregard Burgess. In final election results, Smith won with 401 votes, or 64 percent, to 227, or 36 percent, for Burgess. With 633 out of 4,520 registered voters, the election turnout was 14 percent. The council also selected council member David Lewis to be Mayor Pro-Tempore.-photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Homer’s Best Bets

Now that we’ve dumped Daylight Saving Time for the season, we’ve entered that time when Alaska gets dark…

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The Arts in Brief

KBC art show opens  Students in Asia Freeman’s fall Kachemak Bay Campus painting class show their work in…

Homer Maker Space creator Daniel Zatz helps West Homer Elementary fifth-grader Nick Barber design his first boat at the Maker Space after school on Monday, Nov. 9. From 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Monday-Wednesday and 10 a.m. until noon on Saturdays, fourth- through eighth-graders can use the Space’s 3D printers for free to print a variety of inventions, from boats to rockets to rings.-photo by Annie Rosenthal, Homer News

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Maker Space combines creativity, high tech

At 5:30 p.m. Monday, when his mother told him it was time to leave the Homer Maker Space…