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The Japanese Self Defense Force ship Kashima, DD-3508, left, passes by its sister ship, Harusame, DD-102, as they prepare to anchor off the Homer Spit on Monday morning. A training cruise for newly commissioned officers, the ships arrived in Homer on their way to a visit in Anchorage. (Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News)

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The Betster has an announcement this week of utmost importance — it’s here. Our most beloved National Coffee…

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For those keeping track, the signs that summer might be ending continue. Kids back in school? Check? Most…

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Even though the Betster toils in the word mines here at the Homer News and has a modest…

A rainbow appears over Kachemak Bay and Poot Peak on Monday, Sept. 4, 2017 in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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The Betster wonders how many other Homerites were kept awake the other night by the gale force winds…

Pianist Miki Siwada plays at Bunnell Street Arts Center, Homer, Alaska, on Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017 during her Gather Hear Alaska tour. From New York, Sawada has been touring Alaska in a van with a piano, and visited Kenai and Soldotna. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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It’s official. Sadly, with Labor Day just around the bend, we Homorites can no longer pretend our summer…

Clouds parted briefly over Homer, Alaska, at about 8:45 a.m. during a partial eclipse of the sun in this view taken from Diamond Ridge on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017. (Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News)

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As we all know, Homer along with the rest of the country was recently subject to a solar…

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Brace yourselves: the school year is coming. Gone are the mornings when a Homerite can drive through town…

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As idyllic as our little corner of the world can be, sometimes one finds oneself in need of…

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The other day the Betster dared to attempt a left turn on Ocean Drive at mid-day. Holy Gridlock!…

A bald eagle sits near its nest by the Homer motorhome dump on June 24, 2017, across the Sterling Highway from the Homer Post Office. Since 2010, a pair of bald eagles has nested in the area near Beluga Slough south of the Lake Street and Sterling Highway intersection. 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 back to the post office location. Photo by Peter MacDonald for the Homer News

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Alaska has sure seen its fair share of celebrities of late. Former President Barack Obama graced the state…

Lost in the mist: Fog shrouds a campground on the Homer Spit beach last Saturday. Tents and motorhomes crowded the beaches and Spit.

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“Try to remember the kind of September when grass was green and grain so yellow.” Try to remember,…

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At the Battle of Little Round Top on July 2, 1863, at Gettysburg, Pa., as Union troops rallied…

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Once again we get the great gift of a day off in the middle of the week, thanks…