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    Homer Chamber of Commerce 2024 logo.  Image provided by Homer Chamber of Commerce.
    Chamber updates rotary on new staff, holiday events...
    By Emilie Springer • November 15, 2023 1:30 am

    Homer Chamber of Commerce hosted a luncheon on Wednesday, Nov. 8 to introduce new staff members, discuss benefits that the…

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    Adam Bertoldo testifies in opposition to a resolution only permitting certain chaplains to deliver invocations before Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly meetings on Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023, in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)
    Assembly OKs changes to borough invocation policy
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • November 15, 2023 1:30 am

    The new policy says only chaplains may give assembly invocations

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    Bowls created by local ceramic artists will be available for purchase at the Homer Food Pantry Empty Bowl fundraiser event on Nov. 10 at Homer United Method Church.  Photo provided by Tracy Asselin.
    Food bank serves up ‘Empty Bowl’
    By Emilie Springer • November 8, 2023 1:30 am

    Homer Community Food Pantry annual lunch fundraising event will take place Friday

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    Homer musician Sunrise Sjoberg stands in front of the home she was born in near Thurston Drive on East End Road in Homer . Sunrise is the November featured musician at Bunnell’s Arts by Air program. (Emilie Springer/Homer News)
    Sunrise Sjoberg to perform in Arts by Air...
    By Emilie Springer • November 8, 2023 1:30 am

    A partnership between Bunnell Street Arts Center and KBBI, the radio event marks three years of performances

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    Volunteers help organize more than 200 boxes of food Saturday morning, part of the Lions Club Thanksgiving Basket program. Homer News file photo.
    Lions Club to distribute Thankgiving food baskets
    By Finn Heimbold • November 8, 2023 1:30 am

    The yearly tradition returns Nov. 18

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    Connecting dots
    By Christina Whiting For Homer News • November 8, 2023 1:30 am

    Self-taught landscape painter showcases 30 years of work in local exhibit

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Ashe Dias, left front, and Sofia Loboy, right front, hold a community meeting to share their goal of creating an event calendar and resource guide for community youth.
    Coalition seeks ways to expand youth spaces
    By Emilie Springer • November 8, 2023 1:30 am

    Homer students initiate efforts to create a youth event calendar and resource guide

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    Brianna Hetrick (right). Photo courtesy of GoFundMe
    Fundraiser open for family of Homer woman killed...
    By Homer News Staff • November 3, 2023 1:30 am

    Brianna Hetrick was fatally shot on Saturday, Oct. 28 in Homer

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    Image via westernipm.org.
    Conservation Corner: Experiments with chicken tractors to manage...
    By Casey Greenstein • November 1, 2023 2:30 am

    Orange hawkweed is unlike many invasive plants in that it spreads by rhizomes, stolons (runners), and seeds, secretes chemicals that…

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    Photo from Homer News Oct. 2018
It was a humble beginning 45 years ago for Kate Mitchell and the Homer, Alaska business that became NOMAR.
    NOMAR celebrates 45 years of business and service...
    By Emilie Springer • November 1, 2023 1:30 am

    Homer’s NOMAR has been producing and providing fishing gear and other outdoor gear and clothing for their shop in Homer…

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    Photo provided by South Peninsula Hospital
Fair goers browse the 2022 Rotary Health Fair.
    Rotary health fair returns for 40th year
    By Emilie Springer • November 1, 2023 1:30 am

    Now in its 40th year, Homer’s Rotary Health Fair returns on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the…

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    November First Friday art features community works, stories...
    By Christina Whiting For Homer News • November 1, 2023 1:30 am

    Homer’s galleries and public art spaces showcase work by local and Kenai Peninsula artists during their November First Friday events….

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    Photo provided by Kachemak Bay Campus
Dr. Debbie Tobin and Marc Webber and the Semester by the Bay students conducting field work this fall in Kenai Fjords National Park heading for Northwestern Glacier.
    Students wrap up Semester by the Bay with...
    By Emilie Springer • November 1, 2023 1:30 am

    Students participating in the Kachemak Bay Campus Semester by the Bay will provide presentations Friday, Nov. 3, at the 2023…

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