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Jody Patosky tosses the sheaf.

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CELTFEST bigger than ever for 7th year

Don’t be surprised to hear the haunting refrain of bagpipes as musicians gear up for the upcoming Kachemak…

Norway’s King Harald V

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Norwegian king scheduled to visit Homer next week

His Royal Highness King Harald V of Norway visits Anchorage and Homer next week for the first visit…

Daisy Lee Bitter poses with a magazine cover featuring the log cache that presides over the driveway to her peony farm. The cache is particularly significant to Bitter, as her late husband, Conrad, was quite proud of it. The spruce logs were first recycled by the Bitters from the old Kenai Burn. They used them to build a garden fence, which a cow moose destroyed. After that, they asked Barrett Fletcher to recycle them again, by constructing the log cache. On Thursday, Oct. 14, 1999, the cache appeared on the front page of the Homer News. The irony of that, says Bitter, was that her husband died that same day. The cache was more recently featured in December 2011 on the cover of Alaska Magazine, trimmed with clear lights and covered in snow. -Photo by Toni Ross

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Homer legend loves to learn, share

She’s been named a master gardener, lifelong learner and citizen of the year — and the list goes…

Outhouse racers compete last year at the Homer Winter Carnival. -Photo by McKibben Jackinsky, Homer News

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Homer Winter Carnival: A Tradition for 61 Years

Feeling February’s chill now that the temperature has dropped?  Warm up with the 61st annual Homer Winter Carnival…

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900 people ‘take day to be well’

The 31st Annual Rotary Health Fair is over and it was a terrific success. We welcomed more than…

Obituaries

Jerry Scholes

Jerry Scholes, a longtime Homer resident, died July 14, 2014. “He joined his parents and his beloved wife…

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NONPROFIT NEEDS

Editor’s Note: In conjunction with the monthly “Pay It Forward” column, the Homer News is printing a list…

Farmers Market

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Farmers Market

The summer is moving along at an incredible pace. The fireweed is already blooming, rather than waiting for…

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Many contribute to success of event

The Kachemak Bay Campus of Kenai Peninsula College would like to extend its sincerest appreciation and gratitude to…

The two-story Kachemak Community Center, at the corner of East End Road and Bear Creek Drive, includes offices for Kachemak City’s part-time staff — a mayor and city clerk — and meeting rooms, as well as storage space for firefighting equipment. An outdoor recreation area includes tennis courts.-Photo by McKibben Jackinsky, Homer News

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Kachemak City: East of Homer, where less is better

The current residents of Kachemak City — all 472 of them according to the 2010 census — weren’t…

The A-frame building, right, with pressure reduction valve that gives the historic water tank its name is next to the tank at the top of Main Street.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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A-Frame water tank: Homer’s first water system

Editor’s note: With 2014 marking the Homer News’ 50th anniversary, the newspaper is looking at some milestone events…

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14th Annual Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference

June 13-17 Land’s End Resort Register at: writersconference.homer.alaska.edu Festival of Literary Readings   8 p.m. June 14, Mariner…

Part of the Homer News crew in the mid-1980s takes a break and poses for this photo. From left are Publishers Howard and Tod Simons, Managing Editor Joel Gay, Business Manager Jill Morse, Editor Tom Gibboney and Reporter Hal Spence. The Homer News was located on Pioneer Avenue in those days, in the building now occupied by Cafe Cups.

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Job at Homer News pays dividends in life lessons

Editor’s Note: As part of its 50th anniversary celebration, the Homer News has asked former “Newsies” to reminisce…