The Lumen Christi boys and Nikolaevsk girls won Peninsula Conference titles Friday night at Cook Inlet Academy. Lumen Christi defeated Ninilchik 51-28, while Nikolaevsk defeated… Continue reading
Now in its second year, Homer’s Native Youth Olympics invitational saw a jump in participants and interest this past weekend at Homer High School. The… Continue reading
Upcoming events Spring break practice schedule: Spring sport practices will be held in the high school gym during spring break. Thursday and Friday practices: 8… Continue reading
Kenai Peninsula endurance athletes put together a host of top finishes Sunday at the Tour of Anchorage, a series of ski and fat bike races… Continue reading
What makes a successful season of Nordic skiing? Is it the miles you put in? How fast you go? Measurable improvement in technique? I’ve had… Continue reading
Capping off their last home game of the season — and the last home game ever for a handful of seniors — the Homer girls… Continue reading
Upcoming events Spring break practice schedule: Spring sport practices will be held in the high school gym during spring break. 8 a.m. Track 10 a.m.… Continue reading
Soldotna’s Megan Youngren, 28, finished 230th with a time of 2 hours, 50 minutes, 27 seconds, Saturday in the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials in Atlanta.… Continue reading
In my ongoing quest to shake off my Florida roots and achieve the illustrious title of “Real Alaskan,” I recently managed to cross an important… Continue reading
Let us start with a riddle. There are 11 frogs sitting on a log. Five of the frogs decide to jump off the log. How… Continue reading
The host Homer girls’ basketball team topped Southcentral Region foes the Kenai Kardinals last Wednesday in the Alice Witte Gymnasium. The Lady Mariners topped the… Continue reading
Upcoming events Girls basketball: The Lady Mariners will host Nikiski this Friday at 6:30 p.m. in the Alice Witte Gymnasium for senior night, before going… Continue reading
The Soldotna girls and boys basketball teams rolled to victory over the host Homer Mariners during a non-conference matchup Tuesday in the Alice Witte Gymnasium… Continue reading
The relentless snowflakes falling didn’t deter Alaska’s best high school skiers this weekend at the expansive Kincaid Park trails that line the west coast of… Continue reading
This past weekend I spent my Saturday night waxing skis. Sunday, I woke up before the crack of dawn, at 7:30 a.m., to make the… Continue reading
The Soldotna relay team of Quinn Cox, Cameron Blackwell, Erika Arthur and Bradley Walters won the Kenai Peninsula Borough Nordic ski championships at Tsalteshi Trails… Continue reading
Adult basketball players sponsored by South Peninsula Hospital battled it out for the win against another community recreation team on Monday in the championship game… Continue reading
Upcoming events Cross-country skiing: The Nordic ski team will compete in the state championships this weekend at Kincaid park in Anchorage. The start at 11… Continue reading
Fresh off a Division II state hockey championship title — the first in Homer High School history — the Homer Mariners got to see some… Continue reading
My friend Joseph is a Scrabble savant by my standards and, I would think, by many other’s standards too. He excels at anagrams, staring at… Continue reading
