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Over the past few weeks, Facebook has been mixing up its status questions. One week it was “How…

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Homer Bookstore holds World Book Night

The Homer Bookstore participates in the second annual World Book Night on April 23, with the sign-up deadline…

Alan Heathcock

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Visiting writer speaks at KBC

Award winning fiction writer Alan Heathcock will read from his work and hold a craft talk at 6:30…

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National Geographic holds casting call

The National Geographic Channel holds an open casting call for Russian Old Believer families working in the fishing…

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HCOA announces Art Awards

The Homer Council on the Arts announced the winners of the 2012 Art Awards. The awards are given…

The 700-year old Milnholm Cross at Castleton, Scotland, is one of the most ancient Clan Armstrong relics.

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Cultural talk looks at link between names, clans and lands

What is the link between a land and a name? In 2006 on a tour of the Scottish…

Will Files finds talking points in the writings of

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community conversation: thou shalt kill?

Read the headlines and see new stories about murders, shootings and all manner of violence and it’s easy…

Dolls reflect artist’s heritage, viewers’ impressions

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Dolls reflect artist’s heritage, viewers’ impressions

“First Alaskans” is artist Pamela “Asiak” Nolcini’s name for her exhibit that debuted as a First Friday exhibit…

The town of skinny shoulders

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You know how in the police blotter sometimes cops pull over motorists because they crossed the center line?…

Mountainfilm: Armchair adventure

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Mountainfilm: Armchair adventure

BY MICHAEL ARMSTRONG STAFF WRITER All your Facebook buddies might be posting photos of themselves surfing in Maui…

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Yours truly does not like to be the town scold, always grumping about something  that really doesn’t matter.…

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Big Read about Vietnam War novel starts this month

BY MICHAEL ARMSTRONG STAFF WRITER For the next two months, in messenger bags, backpacks, briefcases and purses, Homer…

Students in a North America Outdoor Institute avalanche education seminar in Seward learn how to use probes to find avalanche victims.          -Photo provided

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Avalanche know-how offered for youth, adults

Homer may not be nestled in the shadow of a cornice lining the ridge of a snow-covered mountain…