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Ever since last week’s election, the Betster has been noticing people wearing safety pins. Holy Johnny Rotten! Is…

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Seventy-eight years ago yesterday and today, gangs of Nazi thugs raged through Germany. In two days of terror…

Jade Campbell aims to toss marbles in plastic pumpkins during a game as McNeil Canyon parent Tela Bacher watches at the McNeil Canyon Elementary fall festival.-Photo by Anna Frost, Homer News

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Type in “cute kitten videos” and Google shows 3 million hits. Type in “Trump Clinton” and 450 million…

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Who could have imagined it, Betsteroids? For the first time since women got the vote, something extraordinary could…

Fresh snow covers boats and ramps at the Homer Harbor on Monday. The first snowfall of the season hit Homer on Oct. 17, causing numerous accidents on the lower Kenai Peninsula.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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For the past few days a car has laid on its side by a hairpin curve on West…

Homer City Council member and mayor pro tempore David Lewis, right, presents a fire-wise flag from Teshio, Japan, to Homer Volunteer Fire Department Chief Robert Painter, left, as Homer Police Chief Mark Robl, center, watches. Lewis recently returned from a trip to Japan where he visited Homer's sister city, Teshio. Lewis also gave Robl a Teshio police pin. "Our sister city really outdoes itself when you are there," Lewis said. "I have never been treated so well in my whole life."

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As we toil here at Homer News election central into the wee dark hours of the morning, the…

A bald eagle perches in a birch tree along the Anchor River last Thursday.

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Surprise, Homerites. If you thought you could pop into your Subaru and dash to work this week, oops.…

Nadine Pence smiles at her 100th birthday party at the Homer Senior Center on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016. Pence's great-granddaughter - still unnamed - was born in Anchorage on her birthday. Pence was born in Ottawa, Kansas, on Sept. 20, 1916. She came to Homer in 1933. Her late husband, Edward, was a territorial police officer. She offered some advice for living a long life. "Just keep going," she said. "Don't let 'em get you down."

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Almost as regular as the closure of businesses on the Spit and the last cruise ship of the…

James Lack takes Hope Stearns for a sail in his Chesapeake Lighthouse sailing pram during the Kachemak Bay Wooden Boat Festival on the Spit on Saturday.

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Some of you seemed surprised recently when a big howling rainstorm blew in over town last week. Whoa!…

Bean Bag beach bash

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Hurrah! Congratulations, Betsters. You’ve survived the big August primary election. After weeks of debates, robocalls, push polls and…

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If you’ve been paying attention to nature lately, you might have noticed that all the little birds born…

A Steller's jay fledgling sits on a deck railing on Diamond Ridge.

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Why is it that just when you get into the groove of summer it starts to end? The…

Fireweed is in full bloom on Diamond Ridge.

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For the past two weeks as the Republicans and Democrats have selected their presidential candidates, it has been…