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Assistant Chief Doug Loshbaugh of the Anchor Point Emergency Services moves a “patient” out of a field hospital Friday as part of an emergency response exercise with South Peninsula Hospital, Central Peninsula Hospital and the Alaska Division of Public Health’s Section of Emergency Programs. The patient was taken to the Homer Airport to be evacuated by Alaska National Guard Pavehawk helicopters.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Go to any meeting around town and you’re likely to hear the call of Homerus cruditis — that…

Brenda Hays holds a third-place winner in the 2010 Winter King Salmon Tournament. Her fish tipped the scales at 29.4 pounds and was worth a total of $9,515. This year’s tournament runs 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday.-Homer News file photo

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Friday at 2:45 p.m. the sun crosses the celestial equator, an imaginary line in the heavens above the…

A bald eagle keeps watch at the mouth of the Homer Harbor last Friday. -Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Recently the Betster took a sojurn to Anchorage for a refresher course, “Why We Live in a Small…

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This week marks a momentous occasion. After many long years of struggle, after thousands of hours of hard…

Not all shorebirds visit Kachemak Bay in the spring. One species, rock sandpipers, spends the winter here. They can be seen in large flocks on the Homer Spit or sometimes alone, as this sandpiper feeding on the beach at Mariner Park.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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With all the weird weather back east, Homerites have been tempted to gloat. It’s 19 degrees in Washington,…

The costumed Thoning family gets ready for the start of Sunday’s Ski For Women. From left are Brightly Thoning as Little Red Riding Hood, Beka Thoning as a wolf, and Lucas Thoning, who was crowned Mr. Homer at the 2014 Homer Winter Carnival.-Photo by McKibben Jackinsky, Homer News

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This week we had an important celestial event: Groundhog Day, or as we call it in Alaska, Marmot…

A bald eagle strikes a distinguished pose while sitting on a light pole near the Homer Spit Trail on Tuesday afternoon. Although feeding eagles is banned in Homer, bird watchers and photographers can still see eagles on the Spit.-Photo by McKibben Jackinsky, Homer News

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The Betster always finds the Lower 48 response to a big East Coast blizzard amusing. If a winter…

Homer Mayor Beth Wythe, center, reads a proclamation at the Jan. 12 Homer City Council meeting declaring Friday as Big Read Day and encouraging people to take part in the Homer Public Library’s Big Read for Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451.” The Big Read starts with a kick-off bonfire at 7 p.m. Friday at the Homer Public Library. Watching are Marylou Burton, treasurer, Friends of the Homer Public Library; Library Advisory Board student member Sabina Karwowski; Library Director Anne Dixon; and Friends of the Homer Public Library Coordinator Erin Hollowell.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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If you looked up in the sky lately and can see past the downtown light pollution, you might…

Artist and poet Jo Going, left, visits with Homer poet Eva Saulitis through a Skype connection at the opening of Going’s show, “Still and Again,” last Friday at Bunnell Street Arts Center. Saulitis is in Hawaii, and Michael Walsh of Bunnell Street Arts Center set up the Skype session so Saulitis could see the show and hear Going’s poetry reading.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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We American journalists like to think we’re tough. Cover up a political scandal and we’ll go all Woodward…

The full moon rises over the Bridge Creek Reservoir and Crossman Ridge last Saturday night. Recent days of clear and cold weather turn into a predicted chance of snow this weekend, with lows in the low 30s and highs in the mid-30s.

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Thanks to the services of the U.S. Government, and in particular the Naval Observatory, we’ve figured out how…

Sam Young shovels the sidewalk in front of Fireweed Gallery and Ptarmigan Arts on Monday afternoon. The weekend outlook calls for more snow on Christmas and sunshine on Friday.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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We’ve been working hard here at the Homer News, putting out not just this issue, but our super-mega-ginormous…

The mariner statue holds a Christmas tree at the Seafarer’s Memorial on the Homer Spit. Part of a Homer Harbor tradition, some mariners also put trees in the masts of fishing boats.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Now comes the time in the holiday season when … well, don’t panic. OK, panic. See the date…

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Over the Betster’s decades in Alaska, yours truly has learned a few tricks about living in the Last…