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    Homer City Council
    Three things to watch for at the next Homer City Council meeting
    Three things to watch for at the next...
    By Megan Pacer • March 6, 2019 5:30 am

    Editor’s note: This article has been updated to delete incorrect information about a resolution of the city council to approve…

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    Legality of city giving money to faith-based addiction treatment program questioned
    Legality of city giving money to faith-based addiction...
    By Megan Pacer • February 27, 2019 5:30 am

    After lengthy debate, the Homer City Council seems to have settled on an agreement for how to help fund construction…

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    Homer News file photo                                The Homer Education and Recreation Complex at the corner of the Sterling Highway and Pioneer Avenue.
    City seeks third-party manager for the HERC
    By Megan Pacer • February 27, 2019 5:30 am

    The city of Homer could be looking at a third-party property manager to take over much of the responsibility for…

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    City mulls funding for faith-based program that could bring addiction treatment center to Homer
    City mulls funding for faith-based program that could...
    By Megan Pacer • February 13, 2019 5:30 am

    The city of Homer is taking a step back after initial steps to help fund a nonprofit that wants to…

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    Homer Mayor Ken Castner, center, questions ENSTAR Natural Gas officials Lindsay Hobson, left, foreground, and David Bell at the Feb. 11, 2019 Homer City Council meeting in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
    Council grills ENSTAR on tariff proposal
    By Michael Armstrong • February 13, 2019 5:30 am

    Following recent revelations that ENSTAR Natural Gas had recalculated how long it would take to pay off its share of…

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    Homer City Hall.
    Homer council talks police station, voting
    By Megan Pacer • January 16, 2019 8:20 pm

    Members of the Homer City Council had plenty to discuss after a several-week break from business over the holidays.

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    Homer City Hall.
    Homer City Council passes 2019 budget
    By Megan Pacer • December 12, 2018 5:25 pm

    Homer has a budget to work from for the coming year.

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    The HERC Building as seen in a 2010 file photo from the upper parking lot at Woodside Avenue. At the time the Kachemak Bay Campus used the building as temporary office and classroom space while the Pioneer Avenue building was being remodeled, one of several uses of the HERC since the city acquired it from the Kenai Peninsula Borough in 2000. (Homer News file photo)
    Task force makes final HERC recommendations
    By Megan Pacer • December 12, 2018 5:24 pm

    After about six months of work and research, members of the Homer Education and Recreation Complex Task Force presented their…

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    From left to right: Homer City Council members Rachel Lord, Caroline Venuti, Heath Smith, former Mayor Bryan Zak, council members Tom Stroozas and Shelly Erickson, Homer Mayor Ken Castner and City Manager Katie Koester celebrate an official recognition of Zak and his time serving the city during the council’s Monday, Nov. 26, 2018 meeting at Homer City Hall in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)
    Council talks 2019 budget
    By Megan Pacer • November 28, 2018 9:40 pm

    It’s budgeting season at the city of Homer once again, and Homer City Council members devoted much of their time…

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    Homer City Council member Caroline Venuti compares a thicker plastic shopping bag, left, with a thinner, single-use plastic shopping bag, right, during an ordinance on a proposal to ban single-use plastic bags in Homer. The council approved an ordinance putting the question to the voters at the October 2019 city election. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
    Council puts bag ban question to voters
    By Michael Armstrong • October 24, 2018 6:36 pm

    A proposition on whether or not to prohibit retailers from giving out single-use plastic bags will once again be on…

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    Council approves funding for Karen Hornaday Park improvements
    Council approves funding for Karen Hornaday Park improvements
    By Megan Pacer • October 10, 2018 5:39 pm

    Karen Hornaday Park will get some needed adjustments, but not everything the Parks, Art, Recreation and Culture Advisory Commission originally…

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    Aderhold, Smith look forward to next terms on city council
    Aderhold, Smith look forward to next terms on...
    By Megan Pacer • September 26, 2018 8:20 pm

    Donna Aderhold and Heath Smith are gearing up to continue their work on the Homer City Council after the Oct….

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    Single-use plastic bags litter the side of Lake Street on Sept. 25, 2018, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
    City takes another stab at banning single-use plastic...
    By Megan Pacer • September 26, 2018 8:18 pm

    The merits and dangers of single-use, disposable plastic bags are once again up for debate in Homer.

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