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    Storm Hansen-Cavasos, pictured here on Aug. 30, 2019 at the Homer News in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)
    Hansen-Cavasos hopes to serve community on city council
    By Megan Pacer • September 11, 2019 5:30 am

    While Storm Hansen-Cavasos would be a newcomer to the Homer City Council should she be elected, she’s no newcomer to…

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    Vance talks budget, communication at legislative update
    Vance talks budget, communication at legislative update
    By Megan Pacer • September 4, 2019 5:30 am

    House Rep. Sarah Vance (R-Homer) told constituents she won’t budge on her campaign promises of fighting against a state income…

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    Firefighters unload supplies from a helicopter at the Caribou Lake Fire on Monday, Aug 26, 2019, northeast of Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Sarah Saarloos/Alaska Division of Forestry)
    Caribou Lake fire is now 85% contained
    By Michael Armstrong • August 30, 2019 5:30 am

    According to the latest update from the Alaska Wildland Fire Information website, the Caribou Lake Fire reached 85% containment as…

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    New South Peninsula Hospital CEO starts work
    New South Peninsula Hospital CEO starts work
    By Megan Pacer • August 28, 2019 5:30 am

    South Peninsula Hospital’s new CEO, Ryan Smith, had his first official day of work on Monday.

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    Hilcorp holds Homer meeting on seismic testing; questions and comments get heated
    Hilcorp holds Homer meeting on seismic testing; questions...
    By Michael Armstrong • August 28, 2019 5:30 am

    A public meeting last Friday night on Hilcorp Alaska LLC’s plan to start seismic testing in lower Cook Inlet moved…

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    Workers with Chumley’s General Contractors lay and weld pipe near Mile 166 Sterling Highway several miles north of Diamond Ridge Road during construction of the Anchor Point-Homer natural gas trunk line in April 2013, near Homer, Alaska. (Homer News file photo)
    Tariff dispute with Enstar over gas line extension...
    By Megan Pacer • August 28, 2019 5:30 am

    Editor’s note: This article has been updated to correct two typos and to add clarifying details about how the Enstar…

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    An image representing the Death Cafe, an international movement to hold groups and discussions about death. A local woman has started a Death Cafe in Homer at the Stowaway Cafe. (Image courtesy Lynsey Stow of Stowaway Cafe)
    Death Cafe comes to Homer
    By Megan Pacer • August 28, 2019 5:30 am

    Woman hopes to provide a space to normalize death and dying

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    Kachemak Emergency Services Chief Bob Cicciarella provides an update on the North Fork and Caribou Lake fires on Saturday, Aug. 24, 2019, at a community meeting at McNeil Canyon Elementary School near Fritz Creek, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
    Officials brief community on Caribou Lake, North Fork...
    By Michael Armstrong • August 24, 2019 4:30 am

    Fire officials delivered some positive news about two lower Kenai Peninsula wildfires at a community meeting Saturday at McNeil Canyon…

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    North Fork Fire nears containment; Ready alert canceled
    North Fork Fire nears containment; Ready alert canceled
    By Megan Pacer • August 23, 2019 5:30 am

    Caribou Lake Fire continues to grow slowly

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    This photo of the Caribou Lake fire was taken about 4 p.m. Monday, Aug. 19, 2019, northeast of Homer, Alaska, about two hours after Ian Pitzman texted a message reporting the fire to his wife, Stephanie Pitzman, via an inReach satellite communication device. (Photo by Ian Pitzman)
    Swan Lake Fire team will take over Caribou...
    By Megan Pacer • August 21, 2019 5:30 am

    One fire is nearly contained and another is still growing in size in the wildlands outside of Homer.

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    Homer bikers ride for suicide prevention, awareness
    Homer bikers ride for suicide prevention, awareness
    By Megan Pacer • August 21, 2019 5:30 am

    What started in the central peninsula when a small group of community members got together and decided to do something…

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    Diamond Ridge resident Parick Buongiorne watches the North Fork fire as it burns near the south end of the North Fork Road on Sunday evening, Aug. 18, 2019, near Homer, Alaska, as seen from Diamond Ridge Road. Buongiorne had previously worked as a wildlife firefighter with the Pioneer Peak crew. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
    Caribou Lake Fire now at 700 acres; North...
    By Michael Armstrong • August 21, 2019 5:30 am

    As firefighters mopped up an almost 60-acre wildland fire on the south end of North Fork Road, attention shifted on…

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    Country singer Zac Brown’s lawyer Blaine Gillam speaks for his client at the Kenai Peninsula Borough Planning Commission meeting, Aug. 12, 2019, in Soldotna, Alaska. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)
    Effort by Homer neighbors to vacate easement fails...
    By Victoria Petersen • August 16, 2019 4:30 am

    An effort by a group of Homer residents to close off a pedestrian easement running by their properties was shot…

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