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"The Cold Millions," this year’s NEA Big Read book, is available for check-out at the Homer Public Library in Homer, Alaska. Photo provided by the Homer Public Library

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Homer’s Big Read wraps up with a final week of events

Homer Public Library hosted 6 weeks of community reading

Kris Holderied, event coordinator, and Holly Atkins at the 2024 Ski for Women at Lookout Mountain ski trails on Feb. 11, 2024 in Homer. (Photo provided by Nicole Bray)

Sports

Ski for Women finds fun and funds on the slopes

Homer’s annual Ski for Women took place on Sunday, Feb. 11, at the Lookout Mountain ski trails on…

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What’s old is new at annual Winter Carnival parade

Homer celebrates 70 years of coming out of hibernation with the Winter Carnival this year

Homer artist Carla Cope crafts a mask at Bunnell’s ‘Maker’s Space’ session on Jan. 28 for parade art construction. (Emilie Springer/Homer News)

Community

What’s Old is New! Homer Winter Carnival parade coming up this weekend

Community organizations in Homer have been making plans for the annual Homer Winter Carnival Celebration, which marks its…

The Anchor Point Snow Rondi Parade proceeds down School Street on Saturday, March 4, 2023 in Anchor Point, Alaska. Photo by Delcenia Cosman

Community

Snow Rondi promises fun, fundraising

The annual Anchor Point winter festival is scheduled for Feb. 28-March 3

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From left: RJ Nelson, Jaclyn Rainwater, Debbie Vantrease, Wendall Cummings stand at the Homer Community Food Pantry booth at the Community Resource Connect event on Jan. 30 at the SPARC in Homer.

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Supplies and services offered at Community Resources Connect event

The Jan. 30 event coincides with the nationwide Project Homeless Connect effort

The Krewe of Gambrinus dances down Pioneer Avenue in the 69th Annual Winter Carnival Parade on Saturday, Feb. 11, 2023 in Homer, Alaska. Photo by Delcenia Cosman

Community

Winter carnival parade deadline approaching

Participants should register by Feb. 5

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Community

Bunnell to host Maker’s Spaces for parade

The Bunnell Street Arts Center exhibit gallery may be closed for the month of January, but that doesn’t…

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Community

Nutcracker Ballet opens next weekend

Longtime Homer holiday tradition promises magic and surprises

Community

Turkey trot to support food pantry, celebrate community

Homer’s 5K Turkey Trot Fun Run/Walk returns this year on Thanksgiving Day, along with a food drive supporting…

Homer musician Sunrise Sjoberg stands in front of the home she was born in near Thurston Drive on East End Road in Homer . Sunrise is the November featured musician at Bunnell’s Arts by Air program. (Emilie Springer/Homer News)

Community

Sunrise Sjoberg to perform in Arts by Air radio series

A partnership between Bunnell Street Arts Center and KBBI, the radio event marks three years of performances

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Fair goers browse the 2022 Rotary Health Fair.

Community

Rotary health fair returns for 40th year

Now in its 40th year, Homer’s Rotary Health Fair returns on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.…

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Dr. Debbie Tobin and Marc Webber and the Semester by the Bay students conducting field work this fall in Kenai Fjords National Park heading for Northwestern Glacier.

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Students wrap up Semester by the Bay with symposium

Students participating in the Kachemak Bay Campus Semester by the Bay will provide presentations Friday, Nov. 3, at…