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Kim McNett, the featured artist for this year’s Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival, canoes an Alaska lake.-Photo by Bjorn Olson

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Environment inspires shorebird artist’s work

A  red squirrel splitting open a nut. A giant Pacific octopus nestled in the tide. Kachemak Bay Shorebird…

Colin Tolman, drums

Community

Shorebird Festival concert celebrates water and wildlife

Take six musicians who have played everything from Cajun to classical to blues, add original compositions by Homer’s…

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School Events

Kenai Peninsula Borough school District May 20: Last day of school for most students. June 1: School board…

Cindy Sisson, left, and Jason Sodergren look for birds at Mud Bay on the Spit during a shorebird monitoring session last Friday. A group of birders identifies species and counts numbers every five days in late April and May during the shorebird migration.-Michael Armstrong

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Shorebird Festival: Birds and Fun Abound

Now in its 23rd year, the Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival has settled into a weekend- long wildlife festival…

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Workshop’s message: Work together

Homer Council on the Arts (HCOA) was recently awarded city funds through the Homer Foundation as part of…

Sports

Migration Run is for everyone

Last year more than 170 entrants took to the Spit Trail for the Migration Run, a 5K USATF-certified…

Mariner Crystal Crane takes a running leap during the Kenai Invitational last weekend.-Photo provided

Sports

Kards clean up at home invite

It is hard to duplicate the kind of weekend that the Kenai Central track and field team enjoyed…

Sunrise Sjoeberg directed and performs in “On the Wing.”-Photo provided

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‘On the Wing’ is next Thursday

“On the Wing,” Homer’s annual celebration of birds and spring through poetry and music, starts off the Kachemak…

A truck heads east on Kachemak Drive from the Homer Spit Road about 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. The road reopened that night after workers repaired a mudslide that happened April 19. The mudslide pushed a clump of spruce trees into Mud Bay, seen at right in the photo.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Kachemak Drive reopens to traffic

Just nine days after a mudslide took out part of Kachemak Drive on the west end, repairs have…

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Announcements

The Parkinson’s Support Group meets 1 p.m. Friday at the Homer Senior Citizens Center Conference Room. The speaker…

Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities workers inspect a repaired section of Kachemak Drive on Tuesday afternoon. The road should reopen Tuesday night.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Kachemak Drive to open Tuesday night

With the last bit of work to be done this afternoon, the west end of Kachemak Drive should…

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Big Read, big success

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

D.J. Marsengill and Halle E. Sinn

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William Dale (D.J.) Marsengill, Jr. and Halle Elizabeth Sinn

Paul and Lara Fleenor and Jeff and Rose Sinn of Homer announce the engagement of their daughter, Halle…