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Kim McNett, the featured artist for this year’s Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival, canoes an Alaska lake.-Photo by Bjorn Olson

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Environment inspires shorebird artist’s work

A  red squirrel splitting open a nut. A giant Pacific octopus nestled in the tide. Kachemak Bay Shorebird…

Colin Tolman, drums

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Shorebird Festival concert celebrates water and wildlife

Take six musicians who have played everything from Cajun to classical to blues, add original compositions by Homer’s…

Volunteers deliver trash and recyclables for the annual Cleanup Day on Saturday afternoon at the Homer Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Center. About 800 bags of trash were picked up.-Photo by Aaron Carpenter, Homer News

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Homer’s Best Bets

After decades living in Homer, the Betster can finally admit it. Yours truly has succumbed to birder fever.…

Gardening should be enjoyed; pick your battles

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Gardening should be enjoyed; pick your battles

Busy. This is the point in the gardening season that so much happens at once. We have had…

Four sandhill cranes fly over Beluga Slough last Thursday, the advance scout of a wave of cranes that arrived on the lower Kenai Peninsula over the weekend.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Homer’s Best Bets

Last Thursday the Betster took a photo safari looking for sandhill cranes at Beluga Slough. The B. got…

Members of The Second City touring group ham it up in a publicity photo. From left to right are Jo Feldman, Chucho Pérez, Lisa Barber, Nick Rees, Rachel LaForce and Adam Schreck.

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Second City improv troup performs

Acclaimed improv group The Second City performs at 7 p.m. Friday at the Mariner Theatre. Started in 1959…

Peggy Paver

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HCOA hires new director, program coordinator

The Homer Council on the Arts board of directors has hired a new executive director, Peggy Paver of…

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Kachemak Bay Celtfest seeks volunteers

With KBBI’s Concert on the Lawn and Homer Council on the Arts Street Fair taking a break this…

Sunrise Sjoeberg directed and performs in “On the Wing.”-Photo provided

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‘On the Wing’ is next Thursday

“On the Wing,” Homer’s annual celebration of birds and spring through poetry and music, starts off the Kachemak…

A photo from Kate Henry’s show at the Homer Council on the Arts.-Photo provided

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First Friday Events

Art Shop Gallery 202 W. Pioneer Ave. Collages by Guitta Corey 5-7:30 p.m., First Friday Opening Reception Artist…

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May features Paul Banks, West Homer art and writing

May’s First Friday includes one of the livelier openings, when the students of Paul Banks Elementary School hold…

A bald eagle feeds on a small mammal while sitting on a driftwood tree in Beluga Slough last Thursday. Another eagle watched from the nest across from the Lake Street stoplight.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Homer’s Best Bets

Just when you think the world might be getting back to normal, shazam, things have to go all…

Visitors view art at the Jubilee Youth Art Exhibit at the Homer Council on the Arts on April 3.-Photo provided

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Annual Jubilee arts celebration ends with big show Friday

Earlier this month for First Friday, visual artists had their moment with receptions honoring their work for the…