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    Anna Stewart, left, and Sarah Bodary, right, sell flowers last month at the Saturday Homer Farmers’ Market. The Homer Farmers’ Market is 3-6 p.m Wednesdays and 10 a.m-3 p.m. Saturdays on Ocean Drive, with kids activities and music. The market features vegetables, flowers, seafood and other food and crops from local producers. Locally made arts and crafts also are on sale.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News
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    August 7, 2013 6:36 pm

    Some want to blame the Betster for this recent stretch of soggy weather. “So seize that sun again and again…

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    Greensky Bluegrass performs at Salmonstock 2012. The three-day festival starts Friday at the Kenai Peninsula Fairgrounds in Ninilchik.-Photo by Tim Steinberg for Salmonstock
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    July 31, 2013 5:37 pm

    It might seem like a distant memory, but remember in May when it snowed? Remember how miserable we were, shivering…

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    Atz Kilcher drives a truck towing a historic cabin on East End Road on Monday afternoon. The cabin was built by Francis Byer, the builder of the Homestead Restaurant building. Kilcher was moving the cabin to property on West Hill Road where it will be an artist’s studio. -Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News
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    July 24, 2013 4:39 pm

    What with all this road construction and utility work, the Betster hasn’t had so much fun driving since the summer…

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    Homer experienced a big city traffic jam last Thursday when the Sterling Highway repaving project and gas line utility work caused traffic to back up from Lake Street west.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News
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    July 17, 2013 4:55 pm

    The other day the Betster noticed a large, saucer shaped cloud hovering over Homer. Sometimes a cloud is just a…

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    A fox sparrow perches on top of a spruce tree near a meadow on Diamond Ridge.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News
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    July 10, 2013 4:35 pm

    The other day as the Betster drove by yet another crew of lime-green vested pipeline dudes playing with big plastic…

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    July 2, 2013 3:30 pm

    A national holiday on Thursday? That is like so Thanksgiving, but there you go. This year, we celebrate the Fourth…

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    June 26, 2013 3:45 pm

    Here in Betsterland we run into a contradiction every summer: The more stuff that happens, the less space we have…

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    Beach walkers wait for kite surfers to hit the waves last Saturday as fog shrouds the Homer Spit during KiteFest.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News
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    June 19, 2013 4:22 pm

    Based on the number of people with reddish tints to their faces around town, not all of you listened to…

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    National Public Radio puzzlemaster Will Shortz, second from left, and Robert Roberts, fourth from right and the top ranked U.S. table-tennis player, join Homer ping-pong players last weekend at Homer High School. From left to right are Dan Kroph, Shortz, Jimmy and Gary Gao, Roberts, Dale Banks, Matt Faris and Kyle, last name not known. Shortz visited Alaska as part of his goal to play ping pong in all 50 states.-Photo by Mary Kate Green
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    June 12, 2013 3:50 pm

    “A screaming comes across the sky,” starts Thomas Pynchon’s “Gravity’s Rainbow.” Pynchon wrote about V-2 rockets in London during World…

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    June 5, 2013 3:39 pm

    If you had taken a three-week vacation recently and just gotten back in town, you might wonder if you missed…

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    It’s a great time to see moose and their calves.  This family was photographed Tuesday night in the McNeil Canyon area off McBride Avenue.-Photo by Martie Krohn
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    May 29, 2013 5:25 pm

    How does that adage go? Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans. That’s what’s happening this week…

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    May 22, 2013 5:11 pm

    Just to continue this bizarre spring, it snowed 3 inches in the hills last Thursday. For you flatlanders, that’s why…

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    Campers relax at Mariner Park last Saturday for the first busy weekend of the summer tourist season.-Photo by McKibben Jackisnky, Homer News
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    May 15, 2013 6:51 pm

    We silly humans think that just because we set a schedule the world will follow. Hah! You know how that…

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