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Please report sandhill crane colt (chick) sightings to Kachemak Crane Watch. Include location, date, time and number of…

Photo by McKibben Jackinsky, Homer News

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Turf at last

With the 2014-2015 school year only weeks away, work is quickly wrapping on up on the turf installation…

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Homer needs ‘Poop Fairies’

There are no “Poop Fairies” in Homer, Alaska, but just as in Santa Cruz, California, where this sign…

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Pratt Museum gets $300,000 federal grant

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $300,000 grant to the Pratt Museum to implement its “People…

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Please report sandhill crane colt (chick) sightings to Kachemak Crane Watch. Include location, date, time and number of…

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Kachemak Kids closing its doors

It is with much sadness that we announce the closure of Kachemak Kids Early Learning Center as of…

Several people stand by a building at Coal Point in 1892 on the Homer Spit, the first non-Native settlement there. -Photo provided, Pratt Museum

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PARKS DAY: CELEBRATING EARLY HOMER SPIT HISTORY

Most everyone knows the story of the naming of Homer, and how in April 1896, 50 men and…

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Please report sandhill crane colt (chick) sightings to Kachemak Crane Watch. Include location, date, time and number of…

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Homer’s Best Bets

A recent article in Slate magazine reported that the Associated Press has begun using robots to write business…

Photo by David Hanson

Outdoors & Recreation

Birders seek to identify mysterious Spit bird

The Kachemak Bay Birders are seeking help in identifying this mystery bird photographed by visitor David Hanson on…

Mark Marette of Trails and Horse Adventures received the “best of show animal” award. -Photo by McKibben Jackinsky, Homer News

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Parade and sunshine: a winning combination

Crowds of spectators lined Pioneer Avenue on Friday to watch the annual Fourth of July parade. Organized by…

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Student grateful for scholarship

I am a recent graduate of Homer High School. A few months before graduation I attended a talk…

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Kachemak Selo school site gets board approval

The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Board of Education approved a site for a proposed new Kachemak Selo…