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Members of the Homer Mariner baseball team wash cars for a fundraiser on Saturday, April 23, 2022, at Wells Fargo in Homer, Alaska. The Mariners play Friday vs. Redington High School in Wasila and Saturday vs. Barlett and Service in Anchorage. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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It takes nerves of steel to attempt the near-impossible during break-up: get your car washed (see above). Nonetheless,…

Writer Toni Jensen is part of the visiting faculty teaching at the 25th Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference. (Photo provided)

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It’s back: Writers’ Conference returns

20th Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference returns in new location in downtown Homer.

A humpback whale breeches in Kachemak Bay in a photo taken July 2019. (Photo by Emma Luck)

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Homer’s First Marine Mammal Forum

For marine naturalist Emma Luck, seeing whales and other wildlife in Kachemak Bay was part of growing up…

A trumpeter swan swims in open water on Beluga Lake on Thursday, April 14, 2022, in Homer, Alaska. Part of a pair, the swan was first seen the day before. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Signs of spring

Swans return and flowers bloom.

Nathan Hall (left) and Jesse Egner (right) play a duet Hall composed that was inspired by dried stalks of cow parsnips at Bunnell Streer Arts Center in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Sean McDermott)

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Screenwriting, cyanotypes and a sonic portrait

A trio of artists visit Bunnell Street Arts Center in April as Artists in residence.

A street sweeper on Tuesday, April 19, 2022, cleans the bike and pedestrian lane on Ocean Drive in Homer, Alaska. Cleaning sand and debris off the side of the road will make Ocean Drive safer for Homer's growing bicycle community. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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After decades of living in Alaska, the betster knows not to second guess the weather. Heck, you don’t…

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Homer happenings from years past

The new Anchor River Bridge spans the river next to the road to the old bridge, as see on Thursday, April 9, 2022, in Anchor Point, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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The Betster isn’t too sure about if spring really has come, but you know what you can be…

David Rosenthal describes work from his travels around the Arctic Ocean and through the Northwest Passage from his show, "Painting at the Edge of the Ice Age," at the Pratt Museum & Park in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Sean McDermott)

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A Chronicle of Vanishing Ice

A Chronicle of Vanishing Ice: A new exhibition at the Pratt Museum by painter David Rosenthal

McNeil Canyon Elementary School student Cedar Galbraith's watercolor and ink painting. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Jubilee! art show highlights youth talent

The Homer Council on the Arts annual Jubilee! Youth Art show runs through the end of April at…

Mutlidisciplinary and performance artist Jesse Egner speaks Friday, April 1, 2022, at Bunnell Street Arts Center in Homer, Alaska, for the start of his residency. (Photo provided)

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The kids are all right in First Friday shows

New exhibits opening this month show the talents of Homer’s emerging artists — youth artists from kindergarten through…

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Homer High School students rehearse on Thursday, March 24, 2022, for their production of "Schoolhouse Rocks!" The musical showed last weekend. (Photo by Mariah McGuire/Homer High School Mariner Year Book)

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If you’ve lived in Alaska at least one winter, you know that on Friday we’ll experience the biggest…