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Jackie Forster and Amy Lower of the South Peninsula Hospital Pediatric Therapy Clinic stand by more than 100 pounds of trick-or-treat candy at the Great Candy Exchange at the health fair. The candy will be put in Christmas stockings sent to deployed Alaska National Guard members.-Photo by Maynard Gross

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Homer’s Best Bets

Jump into the Betster’s wayback machine and travel a year ago to the magical time of fall 2012.…

Winter: Time to plan for next gardening season

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Winter: Time to plan for next gardening season

Yes, I am still watering the window box. Yes, I regret pulling the tuber begonias out of said…

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ASCA seeks nominations for Governor’s Awards for the Arts

Nominations are now open for the 2013 Governor’s Awards for the Arts in the following categories: Margaret Nick…

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Homer-based filmmakers finalists in music video contest

Homer-based filmmakers Tehben and Jebarri Dean are one of five finalists in F Magazine’s F-Action music video contest.…

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‘Muscle Shoals’ wins Homer Doc Film Fest award

“Muscle Shoals,” a film about an Alabama music recording studio, won the Audience Award for the 10th annual…

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TheatreShakes to perform ‘Taming of the Shrew’ Nov. 16

TheatreShakes, the youth theater program of the Homer Council on the Arts and Pier One Theatre, presents William…

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Live at Met movie series starts

The 2013-14 Metropolitan Opera Live in HD series opens 6 p.m. Nov. 7 at the Homer Theatre with…

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Soldier-novelist Abrams reads at KBC

Retired U.S. Army military journalist and Butte, Mont., novelist David Abrams reads from his work and holds a…

“Stairway Icefall” by Rita Pfeninger is one of the works at the Homer Council on the Arts Emerging Artists show.-Photo provided

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First Friday Events

Ben Firth Studio Mile 161 Sterling Highway Learning Experience, art by Emily Coble, Ben Coble and Anna Firth…

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Work in Progress performs Friday at HCOA

Work in Progress, the ever-changing Homer musical group, performs ecletic bluegrass rock in a gallery concert 8 p.m.…

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Group shows featured for November First Friday

For November’s First Friday exhibits, a wide variety of artists creating in diverse media dominate exhibits from East…

Randy Pine, Olympia Piedra and Lupin Pine add a little green to their lives at the Homer Public Library book and plant sale last Saturday. -Photo by McKibben Jackinsky, Homer News

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Homer’s Best Bets

If you’re one of those grumpy Homer curmudgeons who don’t like kids and live downtown, you might want…

Michael McGuire comes down a muddy hill during the Halloween Hustle on Sunday at the Diamond Creek Demonstration Trail.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Halloween Hustle inaugurates new multi-use trail

BY MICHAEL ARMSTRONG STAFF WRITER In the fall of 2012 when contractors cleared dead spruce trees from the…