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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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    An early morning snowfall and chilly temperatures weren't enough to dampen the May Day Celebration at Fireweed Academy on Saturday. Crafts, a silent dessert auction, musicians and a May Day dance performed by the charter school's younger students kept the festivities going.-Photo by McKibben Jackinsky, Homer News
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    May 8, 2013 7:42 pm

    Yowzah, has spring finally arrived in this year’s Not Current In This Time Zone season.The other day the Betster broke…

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    Homer Police Officer Stacey Luck on Tuesday morning talks to a motorist who had stopped to look at a moose feeding on the lawn by the Homer Education and Recreation Complex on the Sterling Highway.-Photos by Michael Armstrong, Homer News
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    May 1, 2013 5:56 pm

    You can tell it’s spring because the calendar now says May. Seriously. In some parts of the world people celebrate…

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    A flock of about 25 lesser Canada geese fed at Beluga Slough while passing through Homer on Monday, Earth Day.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer  News
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    April 24, 2013 5:38 pm

    Recently the Betster went up to Anchortown for a big journo conference. Periodic trips to Alaska’s big city are worthwhile,…

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    A pile of buoys adds some color to the Homer Spit until flowers start blooming.-Photos by Michael Armstrong, Homer News
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    April 17, 2013 4:50 pm

    It’s kinda hard to get silly and sarcastic when the week starts with a bombing in Boston that kills three…

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