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Jewel Curtis, Tara Walter and Elisha Howard, from left, check out a brick cenotaph, or memorial, last Thursday built on Bishop’s Beach by Old Town artists in residence Jimmy Riordan, Jesus Landin Torrez III and Michael Gerace. The community art project was made with local clay and fired on the spot.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Heat. Frost. An earthquake. Wildfires. Smoke. High winds. Snow. Aren’t you glad to see the end of May?…

Chloe Pleznac makes a sale at the Snowshoe Hollow booth at the Homer Farmers Market on Saturday. -Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Years ago the Betster visited West Palm Beach, Fla., for a wedding of a friend. A couple of…

Beach walkers enjoy a sunny day earlier this month before smoke rolled over Kachemak Bay. The forecast calls for sunshine today, with cloudy skies this weekend.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Well, we all knew it couldn’t last. Here we’ve been on an awesome super sunny day roll, and…

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Here at the News it takes a Cray supercomputer to keep track of everyone’s summer vacation schedules. We’re…

Passengers disembark from the M/V Silver Shadow on Wednesday at the Deep Water Dock. The Silver Shadow is the first cruise ship in Homer since 2012. The M/V Amsterdam arrives May 26.-McKibben Jackinsky

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A sandhill crane feeds in Beluga Slough last week with a flock of greater-white fronted and cackling Canada geese, evidence that not just shorebirds are migrating through or nesting in Homer. -Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Warm weather, soft spring rains, trees turning green, thousands of shorebirds arriving and businesses opening on the Homer…

Homer Cycling Club’s Martin Renner provides the energy to operate a blender and Adele Person pours the resulting smoothies for guests at Saturday’s Safe Kids Fair.-Photo by McKibben Jackinsky, Homer News

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If we were commissars, we’d be polishing our medals and fluffing up our big fur for the big…

Members of the Kachemak Bay Wooden Boat Society pose with Homer Boat Yard owner Mike Stockburger after he moved the Indomita from West Hill to the boat yard on Kachemak Drive last Friday. A Homer man donated the ketch to the society. From left to right are Jim Lunny, John Miles, Bummpo Bremicker, Dave Seaman and Stockburger.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Recently our reporters made two separate forays to Portland, Ore. No, this wasn’t a big story investigating the…

Two blue herons are seen at the Homer Harbor. Blue herons are the largest of the North American herons. They can be found throughout North America and Central America shorelines and wetlands. -Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Some have been blaming the Post Office’s long lines of late to “T” time.  We’re not talking “tee”…

With ice still covering Beluga Lake, this pair of swans spent a recent morning sailing on the warmer water of Beluga Slough.-Photo by McKibben Jackinsky, Homer News

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To the Betster, it looks like 2014 has two themes at work: weather and history.  Let’s take the…

A truck drives past waves crashing on the Homer Spit Road last Friday afternoon as the high tide comes in. Winds were 35 to 40 mph with seas up to 7 feet on a 17.6-foot high tide. This weekend’s forecast calls for better weather, with sunshine and temperatures in the low 30s and high 20s.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Let us suppose you lived in a far northern climate. Let’s say that you expect cold temperatures and…

A bald eagle sits in a nest by the motorhome dump station across from the Homer Post Office last Thursday. A pair of eagles built the nest in 2012, and might be the same pair that had a nest in a tree by the Lake Street stoplight before a storm blew the tree down.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Sometimes the Betster isn’t tuned in to all the action going on in the world. On Monday while…

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The fun thing about living in Alaska is that it challenges us to get out of our comfort…