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Olympic swimmers do clinic

Olympic swimmers Karalyn Joyce, Kleat Keller and Robert Margalis visit Homer for the Fitter and Faster Swim Tour,…

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Sports physical clinic to be held Aug. 2

South Peninsula Hospital holds a sports physical clinic for high school students needing a physical for participation in…

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Golf supports Hospice of Homer

The fifth annual “Holes ‘Fore’ Hospice Golf Tournament Fundraiser” will be held at TIPS Homer Golf Course, East…

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Rain shortens softball schedule

The Homer Softball Association experienced close competition at the highest level of the league last week. The Growlers,…

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Yacht club races on halfway through season

In the fifth of 10 events scheduled for the 2014 sailing season, the Homer Yacht Club timed its…

Renner, Pat Irwin and Joe Martin celebrate Martin’s first-place finish.-Photo Provided

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Homer cyclist first in Fireweed 400

What do you get for being first across the finish line of the Fireweed 400, a grueling bicycle…

Photo by David Hanson

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Birders seek to identify mysterious Spit bird

The Kachemak Bay Birders are seeking help in identifying this mystery bird photographed by visitor David Hanson on…

Kharacters/Cups co-ed softball team celebrates its third place D bracket trophy after the Kenai Firecracker Tournament last weekend. Homer's Spenard Builders Supply won first in the same league and Beluga Lake Lodge scored sixth place in the C bracket. Top row from left to right: Adam Treweiler, Jason Boyd, Britni Johnson, Patrick Cashman, Mike Zelinski, Theresa Tilter, Steve Rich, Hez Tilter, Mike Werts holding Brady Werts

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Homer shines in softball

Last weekend’s statewide Kenai Firecracker Tournament offered great competition and great weather to the 27 competing teams from…

With the tag securely clenched between his teeth, Jim Morgan shows off his catch worth $1,000. -Photo provided

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Anchorage angler catches tagged fish worth $1,000

As last year’s third-place winner in the Homer Jackpot Halibut Derby, Jim Morgan wasn’t in the running for…

Catches not spectacular, but anglers enjoy success

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Catches not spectacular, but anglers enjoy success

The Fourth of July celebration was enveloped by such a superb three-day weather forecast that northern worker bees…

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Softball action heats up for Fourth of July

By Shannon Reid For the Homer News In addition to playing scheduled games at the Jack Gist Park…

More than 200 runners and walkers soak up the sun during the 2014 10K Run to the Bay Spit Run on Saturday.-Photo by Heather Ericson

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Homer High runners finish first in Spit Run

Eighteen-year old Pedro Ochoa, a 2014 Homer High School graduate who was on the school’s cross country and…

The Arctica is the first boat across the starting line in the Sunday portion of the Homer Yacht Club-Land’s End Resort Regatta. The Arctica, with Captain Craig Forrest of Homer, was the overall winner of the two-day event.-Photo by McKibben Jackinsky, Homer News

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Arctica wins 18th annual regatta

Two days of sunshine, but more importantly two days of an accommodating wind on Kachemak Bay drew eight…