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New view of harbor

The new Harbormaster’s Office is taking shape overlooking the Homer harbor. Project Engineer Dan Nelson of the city…

Homer High School opened its doors to an estimated 400 students in 1985. There are approximately 390 students enrolled for the 2014-2015 school year. -Photo by McKibben Jackinsky, Homer News

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Homer High School: A place to be yourself

A tiny front-page entry in the Sept. 23, 1983, Homer News, announced bids for construction of a new…

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Homer sewer rates unfair

Homer sewer rates discriminate against Kachemak City residents, especially those who travel extensively. We are longtime residents of…

Obituaries

Virginia Mae Marks

Virginia Mae Marx, 90, died Sept. 30, 2014, at South Peninsula Hospital.  A celebration of life was held…

Community

Kylan Christian Andree

Kylan Christian Andree was born at 10:42 p.m. on Oct. 10, 2014, to Deanna R. Andre of Homer…

Community

Chamber seeks youth artists for MyHome show

The Homer Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Center has issued a call to artists in all genres from…

Originally opened in 1989, Homer Flex High School has been located at the corner of Ben Walter Lane and East End Road since 1997. -Photo by McKibben Jackinsky, Homer News

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Homer Flex High School: Changing lives

With almost 39 years in the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District, Karen Wessel is in her 18th year…

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Announcements

Kachemak Emergency Service Area Board holds its regular monthly board meeting at 7 p.m. today at the Kenai…

Columns from Homer Charter Commission candidates

Elections

Columns from Homer Charter Commission candidates

Castner: People get to vote on charter Homer is a wonderful community; people pray together, play together, fish,…

A leaf and berries lie on a boulder in the Pratt Museum’s botanical garden last Friday — one of the best places in town to do some fall “leaf peeping,” as they call it in New England.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

Community

Homer’s Best Bets

Every October we enter the cusp of winter, or winter as we Alaskans define it. Alaska doesn’t cycle…

Arno: Let’s encourage prosperity for all

Elections

Arno: Let’s encourage prosperity for all

I don’t have all the answers and I surely don’t know everything and we will have our differences…

Lewis: Homer needs young families

Elections

Lewis: Homer needs young families

Homer has many things going for it. We have great beauty, a good port and harbor, many recreational…

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School Events

Kenai Peninsula Borough School DistrictChapman SchoolToday: National Custodian Day.Fireweed Academy (grades K-2)Oct. 10: Egg take at the Anchor…