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Two sandhill cranes block the road on Diamond Ridge Road early Wednesday morning.

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The other day while shopping the Betster noticed a disturbing trend. S-c-h-o-o-l supplies are on sale. For you…

Sophia Park, left, and Eryn Field, right, play in the big mud puddle at the 2015 Mud Wallow at Cottonwood Park. The event is 1-3 p.m. Sunday at Cottonwood Park.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Remember in winters past when it snowed so much you had to keep a snow shovel inside the…

She's a jolly good fellow

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Recently in the newsroom we got talking about an issue once not a problem in Homer: traffic. OK,…

(left to right) Craig Matkin and Bill Jirsa gaze at the Cook Inletkeeper sponsored mural that will be placed in front of the dilapidated building between Bay Realty and Captain's Coffee on Pioneer Avenue. The salmon-filled mural leaning on the back wall is sponsored by Ulmer's Drug and Hardware.

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Here’s the problem of living in a small town that grows by a few hundred people in the…

Slow down!

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While driving home to Chez Betster, yours truly passed a caravan of Land Rover campers with French flag…

Edythe "Edy" Mitchell celebrated her 100th birthday on June 5 with friends, family from Florida, and family in Homer. Mitchell was a successful real estate broker in Alameda, Calif. She had one child, a daughter, with her husband, Grover Cleveland, the great-grandson of President Grover Cleveland. -Photo provided

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If you lived in Homer on Dec. 21 and wondered where the heck all that daylight had gone,…

Just in time for Epperson Day

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Forget the cruise ship passengers, the foreign adventurers and the production staffs of Alaska’s 47 reality TV shows.…

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Recently one of our hard working reporters took a vacation to Paris. Sacre bleu! It’s a good thing…

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The Shorebird Festival goers have come and gone after the weekend, during which they enjoyed temperatures in the…

Visitors of the non-feathered variety are also flocking to Homer for the town’s other attractions. Brad Warner, a doctor from St. Louis, Missouri, takes a photo of the Spit Beach at low tide on May 9. Warner came to Homer to fish with friends.-Photo by Anna Frost, Homer News

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The birds have been back in town for a couple of weeks, surely but surely arriving in time…

The 24th Annual Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival starts Thursday, May 12. Get out your binoculars and get ready to watch a pulse of birds — like these Western sandpipers and dunlins that flew by Mud Bay in May 2015 — and tourists who traveled from afar to view Homer’s notable bird populations.-Homer News file photo

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If it slipped your mind, like it almost did the Betster’s, this serves as an official reminder that…

Simon Lopez, left, and Marina Co, right, perform a clown skit, “Fast Food,” last Saturday at the Homer Council on the Arts Jubilee Performing Arts Show. The show featured musical, theater, circus skills, dance and other acts by local youth.-Photo by Aaron Carpenter, Homer News

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If you drove out to the Spit  this week and happened to see a cluster of people huddled…

Amanda Dorough, right, shows Homer High School senior Griffin Scero how to listen to breathing in Sim Man, a robotic teaching mannequin, at the Homer College, Career and Job Fair last Friday at Kachemak Bay Campus. Dorough is a student in the paramedic program at the Kenai Peninsula College, Kenai River Campus. The $125,000 teaching tool can simulate thousands of medical situations, including heart attacks. -A full recovery is expected

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As the Betster writes this, 93 days have passed and the Alaska Legislature still hasn’t passed a budget…