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Nick Varney

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Reeling ‘Em In: Guidance for the filleting impaired

The following offers a rudimentary approach that will, hopefully, produce identifiable fillets instead of lumps of salmon sausage.

Poster for the 2024 Jakolof Bay 10 Miler. Photo courtesy of Seldovia Arts Council

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Jakolof Bay 10 Miler takes place Saturday

The course is described as “ten tough miles of hilly gravel road.”

Runners line up at the start of the Seldovia Fourth of July Salmon race.  Photo provided by Tania Spurkland.

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210 participate in 4th of July Seldovia Salmon Shuffle

The 5K Seldovia Salmon Shuffle race took place on Thursday, July 4.

Nick Varney

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Reeling Em’ In: Cherishing an old fishing friend

Time now for the fishing report for the week of July 15, 2024.

Ethan Smith (center) participates in the men's open group for the weight-over-bar event during the 12th annual Kachemak Bay Scottish Highland Games on Saturday, July 6, 2024, at Karen Hornaday Park in Homer, Alaska. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)

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‘Scottish culture at its best’

Annual Kachemak Bay Highland Games provide a day of community, culture and family entertainment

Kristen Faulkner is pictured in her official Olympic portrait photo. (Photo by Evan Kay with Climb High Productions, provided by Kristen Faulkner)

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Homer’s Faulkner now will compete in 2 Olympic events

Faulkner had previously been selected to compete in the Women’s team pursuit

Photo provided by Nicole Markelz
Todd Markelz rides for the international Everesting Challenge on Homer’s West Hill Road on Tuesday, July 2.

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California man climbs Mount Everest, in Homer

The Everesting Challenge is an event in which athletes climb the equivalent vertical height of Mount Everest, 29,032…

The junior race starts Thursday, July 4, 2024, at the Mount Marathon Race in Seward, Alaska. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)

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Norris smashes his own record on fast day at Mount Marathon

Anchorage’s Rhodes wins women’s race by becoming 4th to go under 50 minutes

Nick Varney

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Reeling ‘Em In: Hunting beasts

By the time you read this, lingcod season will be open and I just ran across a draft…

Nick Varney

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Reeling ‘Em In: One man’s trash fish, another’s tasty treasure

The Spit was rockin’ over the Fourth of July weekend.

Runners participating in the Homer Spit Run 10K to the Bay wait for the start gun to fire on Saturday, June 29, 2024, at Homer High School in Homer, Alaska. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)

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Run down to the bay

The Homer Spit Run on Saturday drew over 160 participants

Anchorage’s Lars Arneson, a 2009 graduate of Cook Inlet Academy, competes in the men’s Mount Marathon Race on Tuesday, July 4, 2023, in Seward, Alaska. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)

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Mount Marathon Race 2024: Norris, Christy Marvin, Coby Marvin, Boonstra aim for repeat wins

For the first time since 2014, there will be a returning champion in both the men’s and women’s…

Kristen Faulkner is pictured in her official Olympic portrait photo. (Photo by Evan Kay with Climb High Productions, provided by Kristen Faulkner)

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Homer athlete qualifies for Olympic Cycling team

Faulkner said her youth in Alaska contributed to her position with the Olympics now.