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KBC student art reception Friday

A reception for Student Art Showcase 2014 is 5-6:30 p.m. Friday in the Kachemak Bay Campus Commons Gallery.…

Guitar frames stand ready to be assembled.-Sarah Richardson

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Ray DeMeo, Anchor Point’s hidden luthier

Hidden away about a mile off the Old Sterling Highway in Anchor Point is a musician’s paradise. On…

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Get your ducks in a row, be ready to plant

This is the very most excellent time of year. I found myself in the unenviable position of cooling…

Carla Cope’s painting on a Marie Herdegen plate is the Plate Project.-Photo Provided

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The Arts in Brief

Cabaret theater opens Friday“Broadway Babies,” a musical theater cabaret, opens at 7 p.m. Friday with a second show…

Members of the Kachemak Bay Wooden Boat Society pose with Homer Boat Yard owner Mike Stockburger after he moved the Indomita from West Hill to the boat yard on Kachemak Drive last Friday. A Homer man donated the ketch to the society. From left to right are Jim Lunny, John Miles, Bummpo Bremicker, Dave Seaman and Stockburger.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Homer’s Best Bets

Recently our reporters made two separate forays to Portland, Ore. No, this wasn’t a big story investigating the…

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‘Bears’ highlights bears of Hallo Bay, opens Friday

The bears of Hallo Bay and other Alaska locations can be seen on the silver screen Friday, when…

Peter Zollars displays the Russian Orthodox cross found on an island in Kachemak Bay.-Photos by McKIbben Jackinsky, Homer News

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Cross raises questions, offers few answers

It’s been almost a year since Peter Zollars came upon the metal cross along the beach of a…

Two blue herons are seen at the Homer Harbor. Blue herons are the largest of the North American herons. They can be found throughout North America and Central America shorelines and wetlands. -Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Homer’s Best Bets

Some have been blaming the Post Office’s long lines of late to “T” time.  We’re not talking “tee”…

Christina Whiting poses by a “Don’t Stop Walking” sign during her adventure on the El Camino de Santiago.-Photo by Christina Whiting

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Homer artist travels ‘The Way’

With backpack, hiking boots and camera, local adventurer Christina Whiting set out on a journey in September of…

Lorraine Haas, Lorene Tepa Hansen Rogers and Joan Gordon Edens compare stories.-Photo by McKibben Jackinsky, Homer News

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‘Meet the People’ spotlights Homer’s pioneering women

Stories about Homer’s bygone days fill the pages of books. On April 3, the public had an opportunity…

“Fish Call” is one of the paintings by Marian Beck on display at Fireweed Gallery.-Photo provided

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First Friday Events

Bunnell Street Arts Center 106 W. Bunnell Ave. Installation by Jarod Charzewski 5-7 p.m., First Friday Opening Reception;…

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Student artists celebrated for spring

From downtown to East End Road and even at South Peninsula Hospital, young artists display their work for…

With ice still covering Beluga Lake, this pair of swans spent a recent morning sailing on the warmer water of Beluga Slough.-Photo by McKibben Jackinsky, Homer News

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Homer’s Best Bets

To the Betster, it looks like 2014 has two themes at work: weather and history.  Let’s take the…