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    Best Bets
    Homer’s Best Bets
    Homer’s Best Bets
    July 23, 2015 12:21 pm

    OK, Besteroids, here’s something the Betster bets you didn’t know: This is National Moth Week. In celebration of that event,…

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    Visitors to Homer look at an eagle nest near Lake Street and by Beluga Slough.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News
    Homer’s Best bets
    July 16, 2015 10:54 am

    On an early morning walk this week, the Betster, observant as always, noticed a couple of things: 1. In the…

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    Flowers in teapots add some color to the boardwalk by Coal Town Coffee and Tea on the Homer Spit.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News
    Homer’s Best Bets
    July 9, 2015 10:47 am

    Recently while walking the Spit, the Betster noticed an odd phenomenon: Homer cars sure do have a lot of bumper…

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    Two savannah sparrows fly around a sign at the Mariner Park Beach on the Homer Spit near the storm berm. Over the past years, the berm has built up, improving habitat for birds.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News
    Homer’s Best Bets
    July 2, 2015 10:27 am

    You know how in all the hip cities neighborhoods have cool names? There’s Soho in New York for “south of…

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    Kathy Buys, left, on fiddle, and Lief Sorbye, right, on mandolin, perform with Tempest last Friday at Karen Hornaday Park for the opening of CeltFest and the Highland Games. They played several songs based on Robert Burns poems. For photos and results of the games, see page 12.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News
    Homer’s Best Bets
    June 25, 2015 10:18 am

    Lately it seems like Homer has had some really important people come to visit. Earlier this month King Harald V…

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    A bald eagle flies away with a Dolly Varden on a stringer it snatched from a fisherman last week at Land’s End on the Homer Spit. The eagle took three fish, but two fell off, as did the stringer. The bird flew around the Spit for several hours showing off his catch, said photographer Russell Campbell. For more, see “Reelin’ ’Em In” by Nick Varney.-Russell Campbell, Wandering Nomad Photography
    Homer’s Best Bets
    June 18, 2015 9:38 am

    As the latest whining about our heat wave shows, you just can’t please Homerites. Let the temperature fall below 5…

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    Cancer survivors start Relay for Life in 2013. The annual fundraiser starts at 6 p.m. Friday with the Survivors Walk at its new location of West Homer Elementary School. Closing ceremonies are at noon Saturday. Proceeds benefit American Cancer Society research and patient support programs.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News
    Homer’s Best Bets
    June 11, 2015 10:51 am

    Next Wednesday the Homer Advisory Planning Commission holds a public hearing on how to connect Waddell Way from Lake Street…

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    Homer’s Best Bets
    Homer’s Best Bets
    June 4, 2015 10:44 am

    What with graduation, climate change  and the state budget, there’s been a lot of talk about the future. OK, make…

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    The P/V Augustine passes by the M/V Statendam as the Alaska Public Safety boat leaves the Homer Harbor on Tuesday. Troopers provided security for King Harald V on his visit to Homer.-Photo by Michael Armstrong; Homer News
    Best Bets
    May 27, 2015 5:49 pm

    If you’re like the Betster, you might have been putting in some extra hours lately. Hey, it’s summer, and you…

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    Jay Calvert left, and Meagan DeBenedetto, right, hold a pipe distributing silver salmon fry into pens at the Nick Dudiak Fishing Lagoon last Thursday. About 130,000 fry were put into the pens. Calvert is a doctoral student at the Ulster University in Northern Ireland. He is a Fulbright Scholar and is here Alaska working with Alaska Pacific University biology environmental science professor Bradley Harris of on a seabed mapping project. DeBenedetto is an undergraduate student at APU. They were with a group of 14 APU students working with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game on various projects.
    Best Bets
    May 21, 2015 10:29 am

    Senators, governors and distinguished congresspeople have visited Homer. Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon, came here…

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    Best Bets
    Best Bets
    May 14, 2015 10:11 am

    Here’s the thing about living in a magical place people pay lots of money to visit. Sometimes we work so…

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    Volunteers deliver trash and recyclables for the annual Cleanup Day on Saturday afternoon at the Homer Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Center. About 800 bags of trash were picked up.-Photo by Aaron Carpenter, Homer News
    Homer’s Best Bets
    May 7, 2015 12:10 pm

    After decades living in Homer, the Betster can finally admit it. Yours truly has succumbed to birder fever. Consider the…

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    Four sandhill cranes fly over Beluga Slough last Thursday, the advance scout of a wave of cranes that arrived on the lower Kenai Peninsula over the weekend.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News
    Homer’s Best Bets
    April 30, 2015 9:38 am

    Last Thursday the Betster took a photo safari looking for sandhill cranes at Beluga Slough. The B. got a solid…

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