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This illustration from the May 9, 2022, Homer City Manager's Report shows a draft map from a proposed tsunami brochure being developed by the City of Homer to educate visitors and residents about tsunami hazards in Homer, Alaska. The yellow line suggests the borders of the area people should leave in the event of tsunami evacuation order, but some places within that area are not in an inundation zone, such as the Homer Police Station. (Photo courtesy of City of Homer)

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City to revise tsunami brochure

After council criticism, city will revise tsunami brochure to exclude police station from evacuation zone.

A 2019 photo of Anesha “Duffy” Murnane, missing since Oct. 17, 2019, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo provided, Homer Police Department)

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Police arrest man in murder, kidnapping of Anesha “Duffy” Murnane.

Ogden, Utah, man knew Murnane when he lived in Homer in 2019.

The new location of Classic Cook on Pioneer Avenue in the former Orca Plumbing and K-Bay Caffe building on May 5, 2022, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Classic Cook sets an easterly course to new location

The Classic Cook

A recent photo of Anesha "Duffy" Murnane, missing since Oct. 17, 2019, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo provided, Homer Police Department)

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Police arrest man in murder, kidnapping of Anesha “Duffy” Murnane.

Ogden, Utah, man knew Murnane when he lived in Homer in 2019.

A vintage Underwood typewriter sits on a table on Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022, at the Homer News in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Peninsula media win Alaska Press Club awards

Awards include sweep of COVID-19 reporting category.

Writer Toni Jensen is part of the visiting faculty teaching at the 25th Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference. (Photo provided)

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It’s back: Writers’ Conference returns

20th Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference returns in new location in downtown Homer.

A humpback whale breeches in Kachemak Bay in a photo taken July 2019. (Photo by Emma Luck)

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Homer’s First Marine Mammal Forum

For marine naturalist Emma Luck, seeing whales and other wildlife in Kachemak Bay was part of growing up…

Cooper Landing Fire and Emergency Medical Services respond to a trailer fire on Tuesday, April 26, 2022, near Mile 38 Seward Highway near Cooper Landing, Alaska. The fire destroyed the trailer carrying U.S. Mail from Anchorage to the Southern Kenai Peninsula. (Photo courtesy of Cooper Landing Fire and EMS)

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Trailer fire destroys some peninsula-bound mail

Fire in semi-tractor trailer destroys mail bound for some Southern Kenai Peninsula towns.

A trumpeter swan swims in open water on Beluga Lake on Thursday, April 14, 2022, in Homer, Alaska. Part of a pair, the swan was first seen the day before. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Signs of spring

Swans return and flowers bloom.

(From left) Mike Frost, Monica Frost, Tara Sweeney and Sue Carter attend a campaign meet and greet at Addie Camp on Saturday, April 16, 2022 in Soldotna, Alaska. Sweeney is running to fill the seat of former U.S. House Rep. Don Young, who died in March. (Photo courtesy Karina Waller)

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Sweeney brings Congressional campaign to the central peninsula

She is one of 48 candidates vying for Alaska’s vacant U.S. House seat

Gregg Brelsford, an independent candidate for Alaska's U.S. House of Representatives seat, poses for a photo on Friday, April 15, 2022, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer New)

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‘No drama’ Brelsford running for Congress

Former Republican running as an undeclared candidate touts civic experience.

David Rosenthal describes work from his travels around the Arctic Ocean and through the Northwest Passage from his show, "Painting at the Edge of the Ice Age," at the Pratt Museum & Park in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Sean McDermott)

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A Chronicle of Vanishing Ice

A Chronicle of Vanishing Ice: A new exhibition at the Pratt Museum by painter David Rosenthal

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Homer soccer sweeps Nikiski

The Homer and Nikiski soccer teams opened up their seasons with the host Mariners notching a Peninsula Conference…