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Recently one of our hard working reporters took a vacation to Paris. Sacre bleu! It’s a good thing…

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The Arts in Brief

‘Made of Salmon’ reading is Friday Authors from the anthology “Made of Salmon: Alaska Stories from the Salmon…

Jennifer Moss’ “42 Bears.” Moss was inspired by biologist John Morton’s presentation on bear population. He noted the Kenai Peninsula has 42 bears per 390 square miles.

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Artists inspired by science in new Pratt exhibit

Birch trees, bugs and now bears. For more than a decade, the Pratt Museum has brought together scientists…

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Homer’s Best bets

The Shorebird Festival goers have come and gone after the weekend, during which they enjoyed temperatures in the…

Pulitizer prize winner and former Poet Laureate of the United States Natasha Trethewey is the keynote speaker for the 15th annual Kachemak Bay Writer’s Conference on June 10-14.-Photo by Nancy Crampton; Blue Flower Arts

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Writers’ conference includes graphic narrative in the mix, celebrates 15th year

The Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference will mark changing tides in the literary world and the Homer community with…

Evergreen primula auricula thrives here at latitude 59 and 1/2 degrees. These have found a home under the lilacs.-Photo by Rosemary Fitzpatrick

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Annuals fulfill purpose by adding color, punch to garden

I talk too much. Three times this past week I have invited interested gardeners over to look at…

Visitors of the non-feathered variety are also flocking to Homer for the town’s other attractions. Brad Warner, a doctor from St. Louis, Missouri, takes a photo of the Spit Beach at low tide on May 9. Warner came to Homer to fish with friends.-Photo by Anna Frost, Homer News

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Homer’s best bets

The birds have been back in town for a couple of weeks, surely but surely arriving in time…

Brian Payne, left, and Skywalker Payne, right, pose with their recent publications.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Marrying life, art

T he partnership of Homer artists Skywalker and Brian Payne sounds like a romance novel tease. Can a…

The 24th Annual Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival starts Thursday, May 12. Get out your binoculars and get ready to watch a pulse of birds — like these Western sandpipers and dunlins that flew by Mud Bay in May 2015 — and tourists who traveled from afar to view Homer’s notable bird populations.-Homer News file photo

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Homer’s Best Bets

If it slipped your mind, like it almost did the Betster’s, this serves as an official reminder that…

Gearing Up for Spring is a collaborative watercolor piece created by members of the Kachemak Bay Watercolor Society and will be shown at the Fireweed Gallery's First Friday exhibit on May 6 from 5-7 p.m.

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First Friday events

Alaska Islands and Ocean Visitor Center 95 Sterling Highway Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival Art, paintings by various artists…

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Leaving it all behind

Seattle artist Julia Harrison aims to leave Homer a little more beautiful than how she found it. Bunnell…

The daffodils Liz Johnson gave the Kachemak Gardener a decade ago are blooming for the first time this year. -Photo by Rosemary Fitzpatrick

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Your garden is about so much more than blooms, veggies

T here is more than meets the eye in a garden. Liz Johnson and I shared many a…

Simon Lopez, left, and Marina Co, right, perform a clown skit, “Fast Food,” last Saturday at the Homer Council on the Arts Jubilee Performing Arts Show. The show featured musical, theater, circus skills, dance and other acts by local youth.-Photo by Aaron Carpenter, Homer News

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Homer’s Best Bets

If you drove out to the Spit  this week and happened to see a cluster of people huddled…