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    Mary Bee Kaufman did the 21st annual Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival poster, above, also used on this year’s T-shirt design. The painting shows several red knot shorebirds and illustrates this year’s theme, “From Baja to Beaufort: Every Wingbeat Counts!”-Illustration provided
    Namesake mountain drew shorebird artist to Alaska
    By Michael Armstrong • May 8, 2013 7:13 pm

    The Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival featured artists have much in common in their choice of subject — shorebirds, of course…

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    The Arts In Brief
    The Arts In Brief
    May 8, 2013 7:12 pm

    Connections grad holds recital Homer graduating senior Lydia Arndt, who attends the Kenai Peninsula Borough Connections home school program, performs…

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    Be prepared for a late gardening start
    Be prepared for a late gardening start
    By Rosemary Fitzpatrick • May 8, 2013 3:27 pm

    It is cold. Really cold. So as I bundled up and reminded myself that I do indeed live at latitude…

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    Homer Chamber of Commerce executive director Monte Davis and GCI sponsor representatives Kelly Snow, Mary Hart and Keith Sopp fish for halibut during the Homer Jackpot Halibut Derby tagging cruise May 2.-Photo by Jim Lavrakas
    Halibut Derby Offers More Than One Prize
    By McKibben Jackinsky • May 8, 2013 3:11 pm

    When angler James “Jimmie” Peeples of Chico, Calif., hooked into a 323.2-pound halibut last August, he and his fishing buddies…

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    Pet of the Week
    Pet of the Week
    May 7, 2013 7:11 pm

    Shasta is a gentle spirit, a home body through and through. No loud rock ’n’ roll for this girl, thank…

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    Cassidy Wylde, left, Calvin Anderson, center, and Ty Etzwiler, right, stand by bags of trash they picked up along the Sterling Highway on Monday. They were part of a Homer Wilderness Adventures Discount Rates to Boys and Girls cleanup this week, and added to the pile, photo above.-Photos by Michael Armstrong, Homer News
    Cleanup day is annual rite of spring
    By Michael Armstrong • May 1, 2013 6:28 pm

    Some nations celebrate the start of May with Beltane, the Celtic festival marking the halfway point between the spring equinox…

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    Homer Police Officer Stacey Luck on Tuesday morning talks to a motorist who had stopped to look at a moose feeding on the lawn by the Homer Education and Recreation Complex on the Sterling Highway.-Photos by Michael Armstrong, Homer News
    Best Bets
    May 1, 2013 5:56 pm

    You can tell it’s spring because the calendar now says May. Seriously. In some parts of the world people celebrate…

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    Buddy
    Buddy
    May 1, 2013 4:49 pm

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    Courts
    Courts
    May 1, 2013 4:44 pm

    Judgments Sigmund L. Grant Jr., 54, pleaded guilty to second-degree criminal trespass for an April 13 charge. He was sentenced…

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    Homer Police Reports
    Homer Police Reports
    May 1, 2013 4:42 pm

    April 22 A caller at 7:30 p.m. reported house flooding in the Mariner Drive area. Police notified Public Works. April…

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    Fire Company Reports
    Fire Company Reports
    May 1, 2013 4:41 pm

    Anchor Point Fire and Emergency Services April 22-28 Firefighters and emergency medical technicians went to five medical calls and two…

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    Dillon Patrick McAnelly
    Dillon Patrick McAnelly
    May 1, 2013 4:36 pm

    was born at  11:30 p.m. April 28, 2013, at South Peninsula Hospital to Tahlah and James McAnnelly of Anchor Point….

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    Tobias Richard Porter
    Tobias Richard Porter
    May 1, 2013 4:33 pm

    was born at 6:29 a.m. April 24, 2013, at South Peninsula Hospital to Joleigh and Robert Porter. He weighed 10…

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