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CoastWalk cleans up beaches and monitors ecology
Students from McNeil Canyon Elementary School walking the Homer Spit beaches last Friday have become the latest generation…
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For those keeping track, the signs that summer might be ending continue. Kids back in school? Check? Most…
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‘Thousand Towns’ looks at what some cities do right
On her visits to Alaska over the past 20 years, like a lot of visitors to Homer, singer-songwriter…
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Even though the Betster toils in the word mines here at the Homer News and has a modest…
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Arts Briefs
Lord debuts new novel Homer writer Nancy Lord launches her new novel, “pH,” at 6 p.m. Friday at…
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Homer Doc Fest returns with films that seek to enlighten
Next week, Homer film buffs will escape reality for an hour or two during the weeklong 14th annual…
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Pinks run in places never seen before in bay
All around Kachemak Bay the past weeks, people have reported large runs of pink salmon in places never…
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The Betster wonders how many other Homerites were kept awake the other night by the gale force winds…
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Burning Basket is Sunday
The 14th annual Homer Burning Basket project of community interactive, impermanent art, is presented to Homer this coming…
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‘Root’ shows make everyone an artist
Tree roots. Root causes. Square roots. Getting to the root. Root beer. Grass roots. Root chords. Anything about…
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Erdrich speaks today Nationally known writer Louise Erdrich starts the annual Kachemak Bay College Visiting Writers Series with…
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It’s official. Sadly, with Labor Day just around the bend, we Homorites can no longer pretend our summer…
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Te`arama group visits peninsula
Between Aug. 14 and 19, Seattle-based Tahitian performance group Te`arama conducted cultural exchanges with communities around the lower…