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The cover of Atz Kilcher’s “Son of a Midnight Son.” (Cover photo by Scott Dickerson)

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Atz Kilcher gets personal, introspective in new memoir

Atz Kilcher has been a storyteller for decades. Whether through his music, art or other projects, his preferred…

Jay Green, second from left, and Andrew Hodnik, second from right, hold up Quilts of Valor given to them and made by Dana Moore, far left, and Connie Isenhour, far right. The quilts are a project of Faith Friday Friends, a group at Faith Lutheran Church. Under the national program volutneers make quilts to honor service members and veterans touched by war. Green flew 196 combat missions in Vietnam as a U.S. Navy pilot from 1967-68 and Hodnik served in the U.S. Army as a combat engineer from 1989-93, including tours in Operation Desert Storm and Somalia. In the middle is Hodnik’s mother, Dr. Vicky Hodnik. The quilts were presented at Hodnik’s dental office on Feb. 6 in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News)

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At Monday’s Homer City Council meeting, council member Shelly Erickson suggested a little snow jujitsu. “I’m just thinking…

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Brandi Carlile will headline Salmonfest Singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile has been added as a major headliner to the 2018…

The Young Dubliners, pictured here, will play at the Down East Saloon on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018. (Photo courtesy Young Dubliners)

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For longtime Irish rock band, Homer is one of a few constants over the years

When musicians or bands who have enjoyed as long and varied a career as the Irish rock group…

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Try special treats for someone sweet

Treat those you love this Valentine’s Day with a special sweet. I don’t believe one needs a specific…

A man enjoys an afternoon of snowkiting, or kite skiing, across Beluga Lake with his dog Saturday, Feb. 3, 2018 in Homer, Alaska. It was one of the last cold, clear crisp days for outdoor enthusiasts before a temperature spike and a snow dump on Tuesday. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

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Hold onto wool hats, people, we are nearly up to 9 hours of beautiful, bountiful, blessed light a…

Olivia Glasman and Delta Fabick perform in the 2016 Jubilee. (Photo provided)

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‘Tic Toc’ gives new twist — and time — to Jubilee

If it seems like Jubilee! is happening a bit early this year, it is. Traditionally, the annual youth…

The Squirrel Nut Zippers perform 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 11, at the Homer Mariner Theatre. (Photo provided)

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Squirrel Nut Zippers aim to make America weird again

In modern American music, running counterpoint to overproduced pop there often has been something raw and original to…

Marian Aplin, Sue Mauger and Heather Renner pose in their “Gaggle of Gagged Scientists” costume at the Ski for Women event on Feb. 5, 2017 at the Lookout Ski Trails in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Anna Frost, Homer News)

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In light of President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address this week, the Betster got to thinking…

From left to right to are Melanie Firth, Aspen Firth, Silas Firth, Aurora Firth, Sarah Firth. Members of the Firth family perform instrumental and vocal music at the 2016 Cabin Fever Variety Show at Chapman School in Anchor Point, Alaska. (Photo courtesy of Sarah Firth)

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AP Cabin Fever Variety Show offers cure for winter blues

Editor’s note: The price for general admission tickets has been corrected. The cost is $7. As any Alaskan…

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HCOA holds Salon Series The Homer Council on the Arts presents “Short Stories on Heated Moments,” at 7…

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Mountainfilm Fest returns

The Telluride Mountainfilm Festival is returning to Homer once again, for the 16th time, to share tales of…

Homer Volunteer Fire Department firefighters and Homer Police responded about 6 p.m. Monday, Jan. 22, to a single-vehicle rollover at the east end of Beluga Lake. EMTs in an Argo ATV drove out to the scene to treat and transport the male victim to the staging area at the bottom of the float plane launch ramp near the Homer Airport. According to police, the rollover ejected the man from the truck. The crash is not related to an earlier incident on Monday where a truck got stuck in thin ice on the northeast end of the lake. In that incident, Alaska Department of Fish and Game officials said the driver had strayed into the Homer Airport Critical Habitat area, an area prohibited to motorized vehicles. (Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News)

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Quake. Shaker. Tremblor. Shock Wave. Rumbler. Whatever you like to call that seismic shifting of our tectonic plates…