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TorQ percussion group performs

Canadian quartet TorQ performs on concert marimba and vibraphone in a concert at 8 p.m. Feb. 14 at…

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Masquerade mask workshops set

In conjunction with “Marie Antoinette’s Mardi Gras Masquerade Ball,” ticket holders can attend free mask-making workshops from noon-4…

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Poems in Place seeks poems

Poems in Place, a collaboration between the Alaska Center for the Book, Alaska State Parks and a steering…

From left to right, Selina Mach, Kara Bakken-Clemens, Jocelyn Shiro, Lisa Nordst-Photo by Aaron Carpenter, Homer News

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Jazzline celebrates youth in the arts

At Bunnell Street Arts Center’s annual Jazzline dance performance, choreographer and director Jocelyn Shiro puts together a show…

A bald eagle strikes a distinguished pose while sitting on a light pole near the Homer Spit Trail on Tuesday afternoon. Although feeding eagles is banned in Homer, bird watchers and photographers can still see eagles on the Spit.-Photo by McKibben Jackinsky, Homer News

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Homer’s Best Bets

The Betster always finds the Lower 48 response to a big East Coast blizzard amusing. If a winter…

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Rasmuson offers grants to writers, other artists

Artists working in the media of choreography, crafts, folk and traditional arts, literary arts/scriptworks, and performance art can…

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Chugach Arts Council seeks pet, animal art

Chugach Arts Council in Seward invites artists and arts groups to join in “Art With a Heart” art…

Children and adults roast marshmallows and stand around a bonfire at the kickoff for the Big Read last Friday at the Homer Public Library parking lot. Ray Bradbury’s dystopian science fiction novel about firemen who burn books, “Fahrenheit 451,” is the featured novel. -Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Big Read, big ideas

“Fahrenheit 451 – The temperature at which book paper catches fire and burns…”  On Friday night a crowd…

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Court Report

Court records show the following actions taken in Homer District Court through Jan. 23: Judgments Alexander W. McFarland,…

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State Trooper Report

Jan. 3 Alaska State Troopers at 7:03 p.m. went to a Tall Tree Road home in Anchor Point…

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Homer Police Report

Jan. 19 A caller at 10:25 a.m. reported a theft of a battery charger at a Pioneer Avenue…

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Fire Company Reports

Anchor Point Fire and Emergency Services Jan. 19-25 Firefighters and emergency medical technicians went to two medical calls…

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Kaylana Ali Romanoff Ukatish

Kaylana Ali Romanoff Ukatish was born at 3:04 a.m. Jan. 20, 2015, at South Peninsula Hospital to Tania…