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Telluride Mountainfilm next week For the 16th year, Telluride Mountainfilm shows in Homer. Two evenings of films show…

Homer High School Nordic ski team members gather together at the finish line at a recent meet. Kenai Peninsula schools compete in the Homer Invitational Ski Meet starting at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Ohlson Mountain Lookout Ski Trails. Recent rainy weather didn’t ruin the trails in the Homer hills.-photo by Alan Parks

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Seven days into the new year, and already it’s shaping up to be a doozy. To recap the…

Suraj “White Eagle” Holzwarth performs a song from her latest CD,“Holy Ground” on Sunday, Dec. 20, 2015 at the Sterling Community Center in Sterling. Holzwarth and other performers are on a tour to promote the album, which was recorded to honor the foreign countries they visited over the last 20 years.

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Healing rhythms: Homer residents part of CD release concert

If Anchorage Symphony Orchestra violinist Daniel Perry had been told a few weeks ago he would be chanting…

Seashells and kelp decorate a driftwood tree at Mariner Park on the Homer Spit. An unknown artist made the sculpture, and beach walkers have been embellishing the tree since it was first put up earlier this month.-photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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As our planet rounds the point on its revolution that we arbitrarily call a new year, you might…

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the Arts In Brief

HCOA offers new classes The Homer Council on the Arts offers several new classes this winter. Upcoming classes…

Lights and holiday figurines brighten up a home on Tuesday night near Mile 15 East End Road. -Photo by Michael Armstrong

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By one of those odd coincidences, today marks not just Christmas Eve, but Eid Milad ul-Nabi, the birthday…

Gundega Snepste’s Puzuri sculptures decorate the Homer Council on the Arts.

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Ancient Latvian solstice art at HCOA through January

Hanging from the ceiling of the Homer Council on the Arts, a 4-foot wide, multifaceted sculpture looks like…

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New Year’s events

From Old Town to downtown to the Homer Spit, Homer’s bars offer New Year’s Eve celebrations from the…

Kachemak Bay Campus instructor Lee Post makes a final adjustment to “Belugie,” a beluga whale skeleton, before it was hung on the ceiling of Bayview Hall last Friday. Post taught a class on whale articulation this semester, and students prepared and put together the skeleton. It’s the second whale hung at KBC and the sixth in Homer.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Congratulations, citizens. If you’re a new Alaska resident and you’ve stuck it out this long, hurrah. On Monday…

Homer United Methodist Church will present this Nativity play at 6 p.m. Monday. Pictured at left, clockwise standing, are Joan Evans as Colomba, Jim Hornaday as Melchior (descendant of one of the three wisemen, King Melchior,) Dick Dunn as Joey, their son; Falcom Greear as Bruno and Savanna Bradley as Maria.

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Homer celebrates Christmas with services, singing, performances

As the northern hemisphere turns toward the winter solstice and the Christian Advent proceeds, through the next week…

Judy Mullikin sweeps snow off the labyrinth at St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church last Saturday. The church at 619 Sterling Highway holds a Labyrinth Meditation walk at 4:30 p.m. every Saturday during advent. Following the walk, the Rev. Judith Lethin of Seldovia leads a sung Compline service. -photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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On Monday the Homer City Council passed the budget for 2016, thus showing that unlike the Alaska Legislature…

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The Arts in Brief

HCOA holds Second Friday show The Homer Council on the Arts holds a Second Friday show from 5-7…

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With the holiday season in full swing, odds are you’re on the hunt for gifts for friends and…