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From left: Megumi Beams, Rachel Tussey and Steve Yoshida attend an event harvesting part of a ginkgo tree at the Homer Public Library on Sunday.
    Growing peace
    By Emilie Springer • August 10, 2023 1:30 am

    Homer Public Library harvests part of Peace tree on Hiroshima anniversary

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    Emilie Springer/ Homer News
David Scheel at Homer Public Library Tuesday, June 20, discussing his experiences with octopuses across Alaska.
    Homer Public Library presents author talk with David...
    By Emilie Springer • June 29, 2023 1:30 am

    A behavioral ecologist’s account of his Alaska career studying octopuses

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    Photo by Emilie Springer/Homer News
Jessica Golden rehearses for Friends of the Homer Public Library’s “Our Favorite Poems” event, which takes places Thursday<ins>, April 6</ins> at 6 p.m. at the library.
    Homer writers to present favorite poems in library...
    By Emilie Springer • April 6, 2023 1:30 am

    The event is inspired and coordinated by Homer author Jessica Golden

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    Brown bear, Ursus arctos, on the Alaska Peninsula in 2021. Photo provided by Derek Stonorov.
    Homer author to give talk on bears
    By Emilie Springer • March 9, 2023 1:30 am

    Homer community resident Derek Stonorov is an Alaska brown bear expert. He started to watch and study the animal as…

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    Homer Public Library celebrates lifelong learning
    By Emilie Springer • March 2, 2023 1:30 am

    2 honored with annual award

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    Homer Public Library Director Ann Dixon, left, poses for a photo with incoming Library Director David Berry, right, on April 15, 2019, at the library in Homer, Alaska. (Photo provided)
    City of Homer hires new library director
    By Michael Armstrong • April 17, 2019 5:30 am

    The City of Homer has hired David Berry to be the new Homer Public Library Director, the city announced in…

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    Lifelong, youth learners to be honored
    Lifelong, youth learners to be honored
    By Megan Pacer • April 10, 2019 5:30 am

    The time’s come again for the Friends of the Homer Public Library to recognize two community members for their dedication…

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    Susan Ann Gibson
    Susan Ann Gibson

    Susan Ann Gibson March 12, 1952-Aug. 23, 2015 Susan Ann Gibson died at home on Aug. 23, 2015, in the…

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    NONPROFIT NEEDS
    NONPROFIT NEEDS
    June 25, 2015 10:09 am

    Friends of the Homer Public Library needs volunteers to help clean up/landscape the western lot and the use of a…

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    Thanks to Homer Foundation
    Thanks to Homer Foundation
    May 14, 2015 11:48 am

    Dear Homer Foundation, The City of Homer received a grant from the Homer Foundation to connect the fireplace at the…

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    Reading gets a helping hand
    Reading gets a helping hand
    April 23, 2015 9:27 am

    Homer Homemakers FCE thanks Ulmer’s Drug and Hardware for special ordering books suitable for the Raise-a-Reader packets that the club…

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    Big Read, big success
    Big Read, big success
    April 23, 2015 9:25 am

    One of the things that makes Homer unique is its sense of community. The Big Read sponsored by the Friends…

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    John Straley
    Lifelong Learning event celebrates Homer
    By Aryn Young • April 8, 2015 4:54 pm

    How a community nurtures learning, and how libraries inspire that, kept coming up in speeches last Saturday for the Friends…

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