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Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities workers inspect repairs on the collapsed section of Kachemak Drive on Tuesday.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Workers begin repairs on Kachemak Drive

Workers this week began digging out about a 70-foot wide collapsed section of the west end of Kachemak…

A bald eagle feeds on a small mammal while sitting on a driftwood tree in Beluga Slough last Thursday. Another eagle watched from the nest across from the Lake Street stoplight.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Homer’s Best Bets

Just when you think the world might be getting back to normal, shazam, things have to go all…

Homer High School students Ian Lowe, Sheldon Hutt and Patrick Rainwater officiate a game of football at Paul Banks Elementary School last week.-Photo provided

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High school students join Paul Banks kids at recess

On April 14, six Homer High School students attended Paul Banks Elementary recess. The high school students, Sam…

Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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New landmark

“Circle Hook,” the latest in city 1-percent-for art projects, was installed last week along a new trail at…

Wet soils caused a section of Kachemak Drive to collapse on Sunday morning. The road is closed about a half mile from the Homer Spit Road to the top of the hill near the old airport. Kachemak Drive remains open from the East End Road intersection to the old airport.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Slide closes Kachemak Drive at Spit end

A collapse of the bluff along the west end of Kachemak Drive has closed the Homer Spit end…

Daisy Lee Bitter poses with a magazine cover featuring the log cache that presides over the driveway to her peony farm. The cache is particularly significant to Bitter, as her late husband, Conrad, was quite proud of it. The spruce logs were first recycled by the Bitters from the old Kenai Burn. They used them to build a garden fence, which a cow moose destroyed. After that, they asked Barrett Fletcher to recycle them again, by constructing the log cache. On Thursday, Oct. 14, 1999, the cache appeared on the front page of the Homer News. The irony of that, says Bitter, was that her husband died that same day. The cache was more recently featured in December 2011 on the cover of Alaska Magazine, trimmed with clear lights and covered in snow. -Photo by Toni Ross

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Homer legend loves to learn, share

She’s been named a master gardener, lifelong learner and citizen of the year — and the list goes…

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Announcements

The Cook Inlet Regional Citizens Advisory Council (CIRCAC) holds its board meeting at 9 a.m. Friday at Cook…

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School Events

May 1: Early release day. May 4: School board meeting, Seward. June 1: School board meeting, Soldotna. June…

John Straley

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Lifelong Learning event celebrates Homer

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

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Bunnell grows programs, audience

The City of Homer Grants Program through the Homer Foundation fosters Bunnell’s mission as a non-profit presenter of…

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The Homer Farmers Market holds a film night fundraiser of “Seeds of Time” at 7 p.m. today at…

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Martin Renner, a local seabird ecologist and lifelong birder, presents a program on Shorebird identification at 7:30 p.m.…

Abigail Kokai’s quilt, “Snowflake.”

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More art with April’s First Friday

Now that spring has arrived, it’s not just crocuses popping up around town. New venues also appear this…