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Arctic Winter Games holds theme song contest

The Fairbanks 2014 Arctic Winter Games host society is holding a theme song contest. Song writers are invited…

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HCOA seeks vendors, performers for Street Faire

The Homer Council on the Arts seeks vendors and performers for its annual Street Faire, to be held…

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‘The Clean House’ opens at Pier One Theatre

“The Clean House,” Pier One Theatre’s latest play, opens this weekend, with shows at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Saturday…

The Holy Santos Gang from Homer has just released its first full-length album, “Twain.”-Photo provided

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Holy Santos Gang releases album, Twain

The Holy Santos Gang has just released its first full-length album, “Twain.” After four years as a group,…

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Fireweed: Songwriter celebrates first CD

“I think it’s a genetic thing,” says Sharon Friesen Schulz with a smile. “My mother, daughter and I…

Jenni Medley looks through an assortment of plants and seedlings available Saturday at the Homer Garden Club’s annual plant sale. -Photo by Lori Evans, Homer News

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Damage from winter’s ice presents Homer gardeners with all sorts of opportunities

It is a tad difficult to be upbeat when the majority of the plants in my perennial beds…

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ASCA holds art application workshop

The Homer Arts and Culture Alliance sponsors an Online Art Application Workshop  with Shannon Daut  from 1-3 p.m.…

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Registration going on now for HCOA music, circus camps

Registration is going on now for music and circus camps sponsored by the Homer Council on the Arts.…

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‘Up’ continues at Pier One

Now in its second weekend, “Up” continues at Pier One Theatre on the Homer Spit. Performances are 7:30…

This photo from the exhibit “Wind and Water: Beauty Portraits of Alaska Models” is on display at Fireweed Gallery.-Photo by Joshua Veldstra

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First Friday Events

Whether they come from reading Jack London novels, watching “Bering Sea Gold” or just hearing snippets of Sarah…

Radiocarbon dating, as well as the condition and location where this chunk of woolly mammoth was found, indicates it came from somewhere other than the Kenai Peninsula.         -Photo Provided

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Radiocarbon dating raises questions about mammoth tusk

While gathering coal on Mariner’s beach with her husband and friends one day in 1976, Judy Winn of…

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Homer’s Best Bets

If you had taken a three-week vacation recently and just gotten back in town, you might wonder if…

It’s a great time to see moose and their calves.  This family was photographed Tuesday night in the McNeil Canyon area off McBride Avenue.-Photo by Martie Krohn

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Homer’s Best Bets

How does that adage go? Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans. That’s what’s happening…