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‘Les Miserables’ opens Oct 10

The Pier One Theater season ends with a showing of “Les Miserables” starting at 7 p.m. Oct. 10…

One of Elizabeth Emery’s prints on exhibit at Bunnell Street Arts Center.-Photo provided

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First Friday Events

Alaska Islands and Ocean Visitor Center 95 Sterling Highway Voices of the Wilderness, poetry, paintings, photography, fiber art,…

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Fall First Friday opens with new venues

As the season changes, so too do First Friday openings. Some galleries go on hiatus, with no new…

A leaf and berries lie on a boulder in the Pratt Museum’s botanical garden last Friday — one of the best places in town to do some fall “leaf peeping,” as they call it in New England.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Homer’s Best Bets

Every October we enter the cusp of winter, or winter as we Alaskans define it. Alaska doesn’t cycle…

Homer’s Best Bets

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Homer’s Best Bets

You know that metaphor about trying to nail Jell-O to a table? The Betster has had a week…

An April 1976 Homer News photo shows two cars stuck in mud on East End Road.-Homer News file photos

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East End Road: Under construction since 1925

For the past summer, residents and visitors driving East End Road past Kachemak Drive have had to endure…

11th annual Homer Documentary Film Festival Sept. 25-Oct. 2

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11th annual Homer Documentary Film Festival Sept. 25-Oct. 2

The festival runs for a full week and the individual movies are scheduled so that attendees can see…

Two musicians play in a still from “This Ain’t No Mouse Music.”-Photo provided

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Doc Fest brings eclectic batch of films this weekend

What’s become a fall tradition as sure as the migration of sandhill cranes continues this weekend with the…

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HHS seniors perform Oct. 3

At 7:30 p.m. Oct. 3 at the Homer Council on the Arts, Homer High School seniors Robert Hockema…

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Cline signs Paul Banks book Saturday at Homer Bookstore

Dorothy “Dotty” Cline signs her new book, “Paul Banks: Alaskan Musical Man” from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday…

Jackson Hobb, 16, is the winner of the 2014 Homer Jackpot Halibut Derby. He caught the 335-pound halibut Aug. 19 while fishing with Capt. Travis Larson of Alaska Premier Sportfishing.

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Homer Jackpot Halibut Derby: 29 Seasons, Going Strong

By McKibben JackinskyStaff writerDuring the summer of 1986, the Homer Jackpot Halibut Derby wasn’t the only fishing game…

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Artists invited to submit works for Bunnell 10×10 show

Bunnell Street Arts Center invites artists to submit works for its upcoming Community Supported 10×10 Art Show. Art…

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Earthquake exhibit opens Friday at Pratt Museum

“Communities, Disaster and Change,” a traveling exhibit coordinated by the Valdez Museum and Historical Archive, opens with a…