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Harbormaster Bryan Hawkins stands by one of the windows overlooking the harbor in the new Harbormaster’s Office building.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Harbormaster’s Office soon open for business

For the employees of the Homer Harbor, the job comes with one of the best perks around: a…

Ken Sprague and Nickie Knight pose inside their shop on Ocean Drive. The couple hopes Homeric Traders can act as a small business incubator for other entrepreneurs.-Photo by Aryn Young

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Homeric Traders marks one-year anniversary by adding new vendors

Homeric Traders celebrated its one-year anniversary this week by having a grand re-opening April 1 and showcasing 12…

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Numbers tell weird winter weather story: It’s really warm

Friday was the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere. That calendar convention never reflects Alaska realities,…

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Town Crier – Announcements

The Kachemak Bay Running Club is hosting a 5K fun run beginning and ending at Alice’s Champagne Palace,…

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Art lives and works in Homer

Nearly a half-century ago, a group of people living in this small town at the end of the…

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Announcements

The U.S. Coast Guard holds Commercial Fishing Industry Day from 12:20-4 p.m. Friday at Pioneer Hall, Kachemak Bay…

A plaque at McNeil Canyon Elementary School proclaims the school a 2004 No Child Left Behind Blue Ribbon school.-Photo by McKibben Jackinsky

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McNeil Canyon: grounded in community

When funding for a new school at McNeil Canyon was needed in 1981, the McNeil School Steering Committee…

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Announcements

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

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Birders propose actions to protect area bird habitat

(Editor’s Note: The following recently was presented as Kachemak Bay Birders’ testimony to the city’s Parks and Recreation…

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Kachemak Drive needs safe trail

The other day I was driving home up the hill from the Spit on Kachemak Drive. The elderly…

The current Kachemak Selo School.-Photo by McKibben Jackinsky, Homer News

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Kachemak Selo: New school, hybrid distance learning program part of plan

The morning’s hush is disturbed only by the sound of a crow’s wings at it flies just beyond…

Woodard Creek flows under Pioneer Avenue and through the Pate family property to the Homer Council on the Arts.-Photo by Michael Armstrong; Homer News

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Woodard Creek Coalition: Promoting a Downtown Asset

It doesn’t get anymore in our backyard than Woodard Creek. For 541 Homer lots, Woodard Creek not only…

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School Events

Kenai Peninsula Borough School District March 2: School board meeting, 7 p.m. March 3: Interviews with district superintendent…