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Haunted Hickory: Always ready for frightening fun
The U.S. Coast Guard’s motto “Semper Paratus” — Latin for “always ready” — perfectly sums up the decades-long…
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Hospice of Homer: End of life care since 1985
The birth of Homer of Hospice started the way many lower Kenai Peninsula organizations began: Someone saw a…
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East End Road: Under construction since 1925
For the past summer, residents and visitors driving East End Road past Kachemak Drive have had to endure…
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Homer Jackpot Halibut Derby: 29 Seasons, Going Strong
By McKibben JackinskyStaff writerDuring the summer of 1986, the Homer Jackpot Halibut Derby wasn’t the only fishing game…
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Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies CoastWalk
Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies CoastWalkSeptember-OctoberSign up at CACS, Smokey Bay WayOr call 235-667Started: November 1984Beaches first walked:…
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Coastwalk: 30 years of monitoring beaches
Since November of 1984, volunteers have been walking Kachemak Bay beaches, trash bags and clipboards in hand, with…
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Annual festival honors boats, boatbuilders
When it began, the Kachemak Bay Wooden Boat Festival was timed to happen in May, the same time…
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Adventurer completes Pacific ocean crossing
She tried three times in three years, but after 3,700 miles, at 8 p.m. last Thursday, British adventurer…
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Kenai Peninsula Fair: 63 years old and counting
In 1951, the southern Kenai Peninsula had two fairs, one in Homer and one in Ninilchik. According to…
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Homer Spit Campground: 40 years a family tradition
As long as people have been visiting the Homer Spit, they have camped outdoors. Archaeologists have found shell…
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Gardeners’ Weekend: A perennial event
One has only to look as far as the Homer Garden Club for a definition of “perennial.” The…
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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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Harbormaster office: an unclear chapter of Homer history
By McKibben JackinskyStaff writerWith work already begun on a new harbormaster office, the future of the existing one…