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Birds find nooks and crannies in the rock to perk on Gull Island in Kachemak Bay on Saturday, April 14, 2018 on Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

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“Are we out of the woods yet?” “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back…

It’s all about the view A bald eagle sits on a tree branch while another eagle watches their nest on Monday morning, April 2, near the Lake Street and Homer Bypass intersection. Since 2010, a pair of bald eagles has built four nests in the area near Beluga Slough south of the Lake Street and Sterling Highway intersection. This pair returned to the nest earlier in March. The first nest was destroyed when the tree fell down in a winter storm. In 2012 the eagles built a new nest across from the Homer Post Office by the motorhome dump station. In 2014 they built another nest in a new tree closer to the slough. In 2016 they built another nest, but in 2017 moved to the post office location. This nest is the same one built in 2016. (Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News)

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“Here comes the sun — doo doo doo doo.” Or so we thought. Maybe the rest of Homer…

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Earlier this week the Betster drove by a big Bypass parking lot and saw sweepers in action. “Ruh-roh,”…

Charlie Edwards of the Optimist holds his trophy after winning this year’s Winter King Salmon Tournament on Saturday, March 24, 2018 on the Spit in Homer, Alaska. His winning fish weighed 24.6 pounds. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

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As we Alaskans know, living here brings many benefits: an Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend, no state sales or…

BOLO A bald eagle watches over the Homer Spit in March 2018 from the tsunami warning tower near Mariner Park in Homer, Alaska. “BOLO” is police slang for “be on the lookout.” (Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News)

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The Betster saw something rather amusing the other day: a saying, proclaiming that “It’s like winter is really…

On the first day of Daylight Saving Time on Sunday, March 11, 2018 seagulls fly over the Homer Spit, Alaska. Fresh snow covered the beach to the high tide line. (Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News)

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If you’re reading this online from your Maui vacation cottage, Betsteroids, congratulate yourself on escaping for spring break…

A cow moose munches on some bushes Thursday, March 1, 2018 on Ohlson Mountain Road outside Homer, Alaska. She, another moose and a calf browsed just along the side of the road, where the snow was slightly less deep. With March bringing with it the whiplash of repeated snow falls and thawing, many moose are gravitating toward roads to give themselves an easier time navigating. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

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Parents, brace yourselves. If you thought figuring out what to do with your various offspring for an extra…

High waves blow on Kachemak Bay about 6 p.m. Monday, Feb. 26, 2018 as seen from West Hill Road in Homer, Alaska. The storm caused power outages on the lower Kenai Peninsula and high winds caused drifts on area roads, including Ohlson Mountain Road. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Was there ever a friend so fickle as the weather? The Betster thinks not. Just when she lulls…

A young moose browses on a bush by Homer City Hall on Friday morning, Feb. 9, 2018. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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The other night the Betster drew the short straw and had to cover one of those important community…

Jay Green, second from left, and Andrew Hodnik, second from right, hold up Quilts of Valor given to them and made by Dana Moore, far left, and Connie Isenhour, far right. The quilts are a project of Faith Friday Friends, a group at Faith Lutheran Church. Under the national program volutneers make quilts to honor service members and veterans touched by war. Green flew 196 combat missions in Vietnam as a U.S. Navy pilot from 1967-68 and Hodnik served in the U.S. Army as a combat engineer from 1989-93, including tours in Operation Desert Storm and Somalia. In the middle is Hodnik’s mother, Dr. Vicky Hodnik. The quilts were presented at Hodnik’s dental office on Feb. 6 in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News)

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At Monday’s Homer City Council meeting, council member Shelly Erickson suggested a little snow jujitsu. “I’m just thinking…

A man enjoys an afternoon of snowkiting, or kite skiing, across Beluga Lake with his dog Saturday, Feb. 3, 2018 in Homer, Alaska. It was one of the last cold, clear crisp days for outdoor enthusiasts before a temperature spike and a snow dump on Tuesday. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

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Hold onto wool hats, people, we are nearly up to 9 hours of beautiful, bountiful, blessed light a…

Marian Aplin, Sue Mauger and Heather Renner pose in their “Gaggle of Gagged Scientists” costume at the Ski for Women event on Feb. 5, 2017 at the Lookout Ski Trails in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Anna Frost, Homer News)

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In light of President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address this week, the Betster got to thinking…

Homer Volunteer Fire Department firefighters and Homer Police responded about 6 p.m. Monday, Jan. 22, to a single-vehicle rollover at the east end of Beluga Lake. EMTs in an Argo ATV drove out to the scene to treat and transport the male victim to the staging area at the bottom of the float plane launch ramp near the Homer Airport. According to police, the rollover ejected the man from the truck. The crash is not related to an earlier incident on Monday where a truck got stuck in thin ice on the northeast end of the lake. In that incident, Alaska Department of Fish and Game officials said the driver had strayed into the Homer Airport Critical Habitat area, an area prohibited to motorized vehicles. (Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News)

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Quake. Shaker. Tremblor. Shock Wave. Rumbler. Whatever you like to call that seismic shifting of our tectonic plates…