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    Homestead kids tell their tales
    Homestead kids tell their tales
    By Megan Pacer • December 19, 2018 2:43 pm

    Editor’s note: This article has been updated to add information.

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    A bull moose munches on vegetation after making a quick job of someone’s “Keep Out” sign in Kasilof, Alaska. (Photo courtesy Ed Marsh)
    Alaska moose poacher fined $100,000, sentenced to jail
    By DAN JOLING Associated Press • December 12, 2018 5:38 pm

    ANCHORAGE — An Alaska man who poached three moose and left most of the meat to rot has been sentenced…

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    Homer City Hall.
    Homer City Council passes 2019 budget
    By Megan Pacer • December 12, 2018 5:25 pm

    Homer has a budget to work from for the coming year.

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    The HERC Building as seen in a 2010 file photo from the upper parking lot at Woodside Avenue. At the time the Kachemak Bay Campus used the building as temporary office and classroom space while the Pioneer Avenue building was being remodeled, one of several uses of the HERC since the city acquired it from the Kenai Peninsula Borough in 2000. (Homer News file photo)
    Task force makes final HERC recommendations
    By Megan Pacer • December 12, 2018 5:24 pm

    After about six months of work and research, members of the Homer Education and Recreation Complex Task Force presented their…

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    Laurie Daniel, left, and Alaska State Parks specialist Eric Clarke, right, discuss the Diamond Creek trails portion of the Kachemak Bay State Park and State Wilderness Park draft management plan at an open house on the plan on Oct. 29, 2018, at the Alaska Islands and Ocean Visitor Center in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
    DNR commissioner rescinds adoption of new Kachemak Bay...
    By Michael Armstrong • December 7, 2018 4:01 pm

    The new Department of Natural Resources commissioner on Friday rescinded a last-minute adoption of the Kachemak Bay State Park and…

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    <span class="neFMT neFMT_PhotoCredit">Photo credit Juneau Empire</span>                                Robert Monteith, General Manager of the Juneau Empire.
    Empire, CCW get new general manager
    By Mollie Barnes • December 5, 2018 8:11 pm

    His first journalism job was in Alaska.

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    The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly stands in silence while Assembly President Wayne Ogle offers an invocation before the meeting, Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2018, in Soldotna, AK. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)
    Borough has openings for next year’s invocation providers
    By Victoria Petersen • December 5, 2018 8:07 pm

    At the Dec. 4 Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly meeting, President Wayne Ogle announced there were eight openings to give invocations…

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    Photos: Chamber’s Holiday Tree Lighting
    Photos: Chamber’s Holiday Tree Lighting
    By Megan Pacer • December 5, 2018 7:19 pm

    By Megan Pacer

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    Mike Dunleavy, left, is sworn into office as Alaska’s governor by Superior Court Judge Paul Roetman in Kotzebue, Alaska, on Monday, Dec. 3, 2018. Poor visibility forced Dunleavey’s swearing-in ceremony to be held in Kotzebue instead of Noorvik, Alaska, his wife’s hometown. (Stanley Wright/Alaska Governor’s Office via AP)
    Dunleavy sworn in as Alaska governor after location...
    By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press • December 5, 2018 6:33 pm

    JUNEAU — Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy was sworn into office Monday, taking his oath in a school gym in the…

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    Nurse Judy Dean, right, gives Molly Brann, left, a flu shot at the Rotary Health Fair in 2011 in Homer, Alaska. (Homer News file photo).
    Free flu shots offered as part of pandemic...
    By Michael Armstrong • December 5, 2018 5:21 pm

    As part of a pandemic emergency response exercise, free flu shots will be offered to the community from 9 a.m….

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    Highway workers and spectators look at Sulczynski’s car stuck on a section of an off-ramp that collapsed during an earthquake Friday morning, Nov. 30, 2018 in Anchorage, Alaska. Sulczynski was not injured attempting to exit Minnesota Drive at International Airport Road. Back-to-back earthquakes measuring 7.0 and 5.8 rocked buildings and buckled roads Friday morning in Anchorage, prompting people to run from their offices or seek shelter under office desks, while a tsunami warning had some seeking higher ground. (Photo by Dan Joling/Associated Press)
    Alaska continues to recover from 7 magnitude earthquake
    By Megan Pacer • December 5, 2018 4:48 pm

    Homer residents got a rough wake-up call at 8:29 a.m. Friday in the form of a 7 magnitude earthquake that…

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    From left to right: Public Works Director Carey Meyer, Water and Sewer Superintendent Todd Cook, City Manager Katie Koester, Richard Klopp, lead water distribution and wastewater collection operator, and Mayor Ken Castner celebrate Klopp being named Wastewater Operator of the Year award by the Alaska Rural Water Association during the Monday, Nov. 26, 2018 Homer City Council meeting at Homer City Hall in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)
    City worker named wastewater operator of the year
    By Megan Pacer • December 5, 2018 11:08 am

    Homer’s lead water distribution and wastewater collection operator has earned a top honor for his work with the city.

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    Homer Volunteer Fire Department Chief Terry Kadel waves to the crowd gathered on Pioneer Avenue during Homer’s Independence Day parade Wednesday, July 4, 2018 in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)
    Homer Volunteer Fire Department Chief Terry Kadel ‘no...
    By Michael Armstrong • December 5, 2018 12:00 am

    Homer Volunteer Fire Department Chief Terry Kadel is no longer with the department, Homer City Manager Katie Koester said in…

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