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"Doing our part to be bear smart" keeps bears behaving naturally on the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. Photo taken with a 600mm zoom lens. (Photo by Colin Canterbury/FWS)

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Refuge Notebook: It takes a village to keep bears wild on the Kenai

It has been a while since I have been up close and personal with a bear. It happened…

Former Homer High School athletic director poses on Friday, July 1, 2022, at the high school athletic field in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Work ethic, grit and teamwork

After two decades, Homer athletic director says goodbye to program he helped build

Anna waits in traffic in Cooper Landing, Alaska, on June 9, 2022. (Camille Botello/Peninsula Clarion)

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Out of the Office: Time well spent

There really only seem to be two seasons in Alaska: winter season and construction season.

People in an inflatable kayak fish off the end of the Homer Spit on Thursday, June 23, 2022, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Reeling ‘Em In: Fishing gets exciting with snagging opener

Snagging opener runs through 11:59 p.m. Friday at Nick Dudiak Fishing Lagoon

Silas Firth, left, Emily Knight, center, and Craig Albers, right, run past lupines in the 2022 Homer Spit Run 10k and Half Marathon on Saturday, June 25, 2022, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
Silas Firth, left, Emily Knight, center, and Craig Albers, right, run past lupines in the 2022 Homer Spit Run 10k and Half Marathon on Saturday, June 25, 2022, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Markelz wins Spit Run 10k

2022 Spit Run honors former Homer mayor, avid runner

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Central peninsula teams wins Kenai Invite fastpitch tourney

The AK Riptide, a team of players from Soldotna and Kenai, won the Under-18 portion of the Kenai…

A moose browsing on birch on the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. (Photo by Colin Canterbury/FWS)

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Refuge Notebook: Moose and pizza: A matter of taste?

Special note from Kris Inman, refuge supervisory wildlife biologist: From time to time, we look back at previous…

After driving through the Kenai Mountains from Turnagain Pass past Cooper Landing, the Sterling Highway opens up here in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge going through the Swan Lake fire burn, as seen on Sunday, May 22, 2022. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Out of the Office: Road trippin’

You know how you’ve done something so long and so often it becomes routine, and yet it still…

Nick Varney

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Reeling ‘Em In: Kings acting ‘a bit schizoid’

It’s hard to tell what’s worse: thieving seals or *%$@#0# snaggers

More than 140 runners participated in the 10K to the Bay run on Saturday, June 26. The race began at Homer High School and finished at Land's End on the Spit. (Photo by Sarah Knapp/Homer News)

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Spit Run 10K and Half Marathon is next weekend

The Annual Homer Spit Run – 10k Run to the Bay and the Cosmic Hamlet Half Marathon will…

Nick Varney

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Reeling ‘Em In: River closures means best fishing is by the sea

What a morning. The changing zephyrs have finally dispersed the coverlet of smoke masking the inlet and exposing…

Representatives of Team Sweaty Bettys were awarded the traveling trophy at the awards event on Saturday, June 4 at SPARC. Pictured here from left to right, and joined by their children for the photo, team members: Jen Liston, Mary Liston, Devry Garity, Lilia Johnson, Juley Kalugen. (Photo provided)

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Sweaty Bettys win Homer Steps challenge

Out of 658 participants on 60 teams who walked a total of 168,440,076 steps in the annual Homer…

Soldotna’s Dylan Dahlgren wins the discus at the SoHi Invitational on Saturday, April 30, 2022, at Soldotna High School in Soldotna, Alaska. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)

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SoHi’s Dahlgren nabs athlete of meet at Brian Young Invitational

Soldotna graduate Dylan Dahlgren led the Kenai Peninsula at the Brian Young Invitational in Homer on June 3…