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Larry Yazzi performs a dance for a small crowd Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018 in the Homer High School Mariner Theatre in Homer, Alaska. Yazzi’s group, the Native Pride Dancers, traveled from Minnesota to performs in several schools and venues on the Kenai Peninsula. Their visit was made possible by the by the Native Youth Community Project. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

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Photos: Native Pride Dancers visit Homer

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Northern lights glow about 2:30 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018, over Diamond Ridge near Homer, Alaska. At times the aurora spread in a long arc from east to west. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Everyone talks about the Ides of March, but does anyone care about the Ides of September? That would…

The 2018 Burning Basket, Dream, catches fire on Sept. 9, 2018 at Mariner Park in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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An intimate view of the Burning Basket from formation to flames

The image came via text in early June: a lilac-painted 1972 Volkswagen van set against a picturesque backdrop…

New Anchor Point writer publishes second novel

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New Anchor Point writer publishes second novel

When a former journalist writes a novel with an unreliable narrator about the editor of a weekly newspaper…

David Pettibone’s “Year of the Tree” exhibit features a single tree painted at the Eagle River Nature Center painted over the span of a year. His show opens Sept. 7, 2018, at the Homer Council on the Arts, Homer, Alaska. (Photo provided) David Pettibone’s “Year of the Tree” exhibit features a single tree painted at the Eagle River Nature Center painted over the span of a year. His show opens Sept. 7, 2018, at the Homer Council on the Arts, Homer, Alaska. (Photo provided)

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Participants in a pre-performance silent estuary walk contemplate Wendy Erd’s poetry on Sept. 2, 2018 at the Beluga Slough in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Mira Klein)

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Beluga Slough inspires a new creative collaboration

Ten minutes before the performance was set to start, an at-capacity audience at Bunnell Street Arts Center already…

Kachemak Gardener: Jade the Dog inspires garden innovations

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Kachemak Gardener: Jade the Dog inspires garden innovations

Jade the Dog, at 9 years old, has been bypassing one of the stone paths through the perennial…

Shine, the 2017 Burning Basket, burns on Sunday, Sept. 10, 2017 at Mariner Park on the Homer Spit. (Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News)

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The annual Burning Basket build week starts Sunday, Sept. 2 and runs noon to 8 p.m. daily through…

Erin Searcy-Dudgeon Wells of Rogues & Wenches, center, leads a sing along at the Kachemak Bay Wooden Boat Society Festival on Saturday at the Nick Dudiak Fishing Lagoon campground. At left are Lucia Woofter and Lena Gonzales. At far right is Hunter Woofter, Devin Frey, second from right, and Bob Woofter. (File photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News)

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Take a break from fishing, waiting on tables, washing dishes, nursing, doctoring and fighting fires, and listen up,…

<span class="neFMT neFMT_PhotoCredit">File photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News</span> In this photo taken on Aug. 24, 2018, a pile of gravel behind the Homer Council on the Arts offices on Pioneer Avenue shows the general area planned for the Mary Epperson Performing Arts Center in Homer. HCOA has put aside plans to build a large yurt for the center and instead will build a more permanent building.

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HCOA scraps yurt idea for Epperson PAC

Over the past few years, the Homer Council on the Arts has been exploring and raising money for…

Big, colorful salads made with fresh ingredients from the garden are a summer staple. (Photo by Teri Robl)

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Kachemak Cuisine: Savor the bounty and freshness of summer gardens

Each visit I make to our little Alaskan garden surprises me as I am not much of a…

Janet Klein, left, holds her grandson, Silas Reising, 4, while she visits with her daughter, Deborah Klein, center, and son-in-law George Reising, right, at Bishop’s Beach, Homer, Alaska, on Aug. 9, 2018. Not shown is Kai Reising, 6. Sylas and Kai were the inspiration for the Klein’s “color and learn” book, “Alaska’s Dinosaurs and Other Cretaceous Creatures.”

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Kleins publish new book on Alaska dinosaurs

A new children’s book out this month fulfills a request made by two Seward boys to their mother.…

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We have now entered the limbo days of summer. Yes, children, we understand vacation ended for you on…