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    Mary Bee Kaufman did the 21st annual Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival poster, above, also used on this year’s T-shirt design. The painting shows several red knot shorebirds and illustrates this year’s theme, “From Baja to Beaufort: Every Wingbeat Counts!”-Illustration provided
    Namesake mountain drew shorebird artist to Alaska
    By Michael Armstrong • May 8, 2013 7:13 pm

    The Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival featured artists have much in common in their choice of subject — shorebirds, of course…

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    The Arts In Brief
    The Arts In Brief
    May 8, 2013 7:12 pm

    Connections grad holds recital Homer graduating senior Lydia Arndt, who attends the Kenai Peninsula Borough Connections home school program, performs…

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    Be prepared for a late gardening start
    Be prepared for a late gardening start
    By Rosemary Fitzpatrick • May 8, 2013 3:27 pm

    It is cold. Really cold. So as I bundled up and reminded myself that I do indeed live at latitude…

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    Homer Chamber of Commerce executive director Monte Davis and GCI sponsor representatives Kelly Snow, Mary Hart and Keith Sopp fish for halibut during the Homer Jackpot Halibut Derby tagging cruise May 2.-Photo by Jim Lavrakas
    Halibut Derby Offers More Than One Prize
    By McKibben Jackinsky • May 8, 2013 3:11 pm

    When angler James “Jimmie” Peeples of Chico, Calif., hooked into a 323.2-pound halibut last August, he and his fishing buddies…

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    Cassidy Wylde, left, Calvin Anderson, center, and Ty Etzwiler, right, stand by bags of trash they picked up along the Sterling Highway on Monday. They were part of a Homer Wilderness Adventures Discount Rates to Boys and Girls cleanup this week, and added to the pile, photo above.-Photos by Michael Armstrong, Homer News
    Cleanup day is annual rite of spring
    By Michael Armstrong • May 1, 2013 6:28 pm

    Some nations celebrate the start of May with Beltane, the Celtic festival marking the halfway point between the spring equinox…

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    Homer Police Officer Stacey Luck on Tuesday morning talks to a motorist who had stopped to look at a moose feeding on the lawn by the Homer Education and Recreation Complex on the Sterling Highway.-Photos by Michael Armstrong, Homer News
    Best Bets
    May 1, 2013 5:56 pm

    You can tell it’s spring because the calendar now says May. Seriously. In some parts of the world people celebrate…

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    Student art from the Flex School show, opening May 10 at the school.-Photo Provided
    First Friday Events
    May 1, 2013 4:22 pm

    Art Shop Gallery 207 W. Pioneer Ave. New Work by Nancy Wise 5-7 p.m., First Friday Reception New to the…

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    Wildlife art shows  preview shorebird festival
    Wildlife art shows preview shorebird festival
    By Michael Armstrong • May 1, 2013 4:19 pm

    As hundreds of geese, dozens of cranes and a few shorebirds descended on Homer last weekend, and with the Kachemak…

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    Improv class is May 18
    Improv class is May 18
    May 1, 2013 4:15 pm

    Improvisational performer and teacher Martin Zeller offers a 5-hour improvisational theater workshop from 9:30 a.m. to noon and 1 to…

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    Show opens at Cosmic Kitchen
    Show opens at Cosmic Kitchen
    May 1, 2013 4:15 pm

    While there is no First Friday reception, Anchor Point artist Gary Sheridan will visit Cosmic Kitchen from 5 to 7…

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    Mossy Kilcher, left, and Sunrise Sjoeberg, right, are two of the performers in “On the Wing.”-Photo Provided
    ‘On the Wing’ concert starts off shorebird weekend
    May 1, 2013 4:14 pm

    To kick off the 21st annual Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival, “On the Wing,” a musical celebration of birds, holds its…

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    Homer High School Choir Director Kyle Schneider sings a solo during rehearsals on Sunday.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News
    Requiem holds personal meaning for concert director
    By Michael Armstrong • May 1, 2013 4:12 pm

    In the grand arc of Mark Robinson’s teaching and musical career, Johannes Brahms’ “Requiem” serves as a personal touchstone from…

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    A flock of about 25 lesser Canada geese fed at Beluga Slough while passing through Homer on Monday, Earth Day.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer  News
    Homer’s Best Bets
    April 24, 2013 5:38 pm

    Recently the Betster went up to Anchortown for a big journo conference. Periodic trips to Alaska’s big city are worthwhile,…

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