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    The icy view of Kachemak Bay and the Homer Spit is enough to make any person shiver from the recent cold weather. (Photo by Sarah Knapp/Homer News)
    Homer’s Best Bets
    January 5, 2022 1:30 am

    The Juneau artist William Spear designed a special pin for 2020: a flaming trash Dumpster. That seemed to be the…

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    Snow covers surplus newspaper boxes at the Homer News earlier this mont, a reminder of how much snow fell in Homer before a post-Christmas warm spell melted the snow and turned streets icy. The weather forecast calls for snow and then cold, clear weather for the new year. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
    Homer’s Best Bets
    December 29, 2021 1:30 am

    It’s been a rough two years, Betster persons. Last year turned into isolation and despair as a worldwide pandemic washed…

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    At mid-day on Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2021, as seen at Bishop’s Beach the sun is as low to the horizon as it will be all year in Homer, Alaska. After the Winter Solstice, the sun will rise higher and higher at solar noon each day, with daylight hours also increasing. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
    Homer’s Best Bets
    December 22, 2021 1:30 am

    Whew. Christmas is coming and New Year’s Day is on its way, all the more reason to get out and…

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    Odin Rathnam and Mannfried Funk performed a variety of arrangements that made many members of the audience smile, cry and even laugh during the Pratt Museum & Park’s Glacier Salon benefit on Friday, Dec. 10. Rathnam and Funk performed in the Ron Senungetuk: A Retrospective exhibit. (Photo by Sarah Knapp/Homer News)
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    December 16, 2021 1:30 am

    This month has been chock full of palindrome dates. If you write the date numerically and in American style, we’ve…

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    Ice lies scattered on the beach on Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021, at Mariner Park on the Homer Spit, Alaska. Extreme high tides last week pushed ice bergs from the bay up on the beach. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
    Homer’s Best Bets
    December 8, 2021 1:30 am

    Years ago when the Betster’s nephew got married and the family discussion turned to how bad that winter had been,…

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    Jim Levine, left, watches as his Diamond Ridge driveway gets plowed on Monday, Nov. 29, 2021, near Homer, Alaska. Over the Thanksgiving Day weekend, some areas of the southern Kenai Peninsula got up to 3 feet of snow. The weekend forecast calls for clear and cold on Friday, with a 70% chance of snow on Sunday, (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
    Homer’s Best Bets
    December 2, 2021 1:30 am

    Buckle up, Betster persons. It’s Dec. 2, and Homer holiday fun starts with a bang this weekend. Put down that…

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    The moon rises over the Kenai Mountains and Beluga Lake at about 5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
    Homer’s Best Bets
    November 24, 2021 1:30 am

    We’re going into another cold week, Betster persons, all the more reason to gather together (safely!) with family an friends…

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    Ice has begun to fill Mud Bay, as seen from the Homer Spit on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2021, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
    Homer’s Best Bets
    November 18, 2021 1:30 am

    What can we say? It’s cold but beautiful, the perfect weather to enjoy cozy, indoor events like these best bets:

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    Snow has fallen on the higher elevations of Poot Peak and the Kenai Mountains, as seen from the Homer Harbor on Friday, Nov. 5, 2021, in Homer, Alaska. The snow also makes visible the image of the bear on the side of Poot Peak. Poot Peak and China Poot Bay were named for Henry "China" Poot. According to Janet Klein's "A History of Kachemak Bay," she wrote that Clem Tillion said Poot was an Alaska Native of mixed heritage who associated with Chinese workers in the area who packed salmon. Poot's nickname was "China." (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
    Homer’s Best Bets
    November 11, 2021 1:30 am

    If you’re keeping track of the latest weather developments at Latitude 59 degrees and some change, here’s what’s up:

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    The sun shines on Yukon Island on Thurday, Oct. 28, 2021, as seen from Bishop's Beach in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
    Homer’s Best Bets
    November 4, 2021 1:30 am

    Having once spent some time in Florida, the Betster naively believed yours truly could escape the wrath of tropical depressions…

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    A little girl shows off the rock she found during the Homer Rocks Halloween scavenger hunt at the Islands and Oceans Center on Sunday, Oct. 24. (Photo by Sarah Knapp/Homer News)
    Homer’s Best Bets
    October 28, 2021 1:30 am

    Barring a last-minute, not forecasted blizzard, Homer kids may enjoy a rare pleasure on Sunday, Halloween: trick or treating in…

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    Sara and Ed Berg retracing their daughter’s, Anesha “Duffy” Murnane, last known steps before disappearing two years ago on Oct. 17. The memorial walk is a way for the parents to keep her with them. “We don’t have anything left. This is one of the few things we have,” Sara Berg said. (Photo by Sarah Knapp/Homer News)
    Homer’s Best Bets
    October 21, 2021 1:30 am

    If a sudden influx of visitors shows up this month, credit yet another article in a big national paper proclaiming…

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    The sunrise shines on Mt. Redoubt Sunday, Oct. 10, creating hues of pinks, yellows and blues as it lights up the sky. (Photo by Sarah Knapp/Homer News)
    Homer’s Best Bets
    October 14, 2021 1:30 am

    “Always getting ready” goes a saying of the Yu’pik people of coastal western Alaska. That’s an ancient lesson we Alaskans…

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