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    In Our Backyard
    A two-day workshop explores meaningful strategies for integrating grief into daily life.-Photo by McKibben Jackinsky, Homer News
    Making room for grief
    By McKibben Jackinsky • November 20, 2013 5:32 pm

    The holiday season is known as a season of great joy.  In reality, however, that isn’t everyone’s experience. “Holidays are…

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    Homer Senior Citizens board member Merlin Cordes and his wife, Carol, dance at a senior center dinner-dance.-Photo by McKibben Jackinsky, Homer News
    Homer Senior Citizens: Forty-years old and going strong
    By Michael Armstrong • November 14, 2013 10:05 am

    Considering how spread out are the facilities of Homer Senior Citizens Inc., when you talk about something being in our…

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    Tara Schmidt of Haven House offers information about Girls On the Run during Saturday’s Rotary Health Fair.-Photo by McKibben Jackinsky, Homer News
    Girls on the run: from a 5K to...
    By McKibben Jackinsky • November 6, 2013 4:57 pm

    Unsure about reaching a goal? Add a coach and see the difference it makes. Add community support and it gets…

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    Michael McGuire comes down a muddy hill during the Halloween Hustle on Sunday at the Diamond Creek Demonstration Trail.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News
    Halloween Hustle inaugurates new multi-use trail
    October 30, 2013 3:45 pm

    BY MICHAEL ARMSTRONG STAFF WRITER In the fall of 2012 when contractors cleared dead spruce trees from the Diamond Creek…

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    Jaelynn Thompson with her mother, Jennifer Cabana.-Photo provided
    Halloween: costumes, treats and tricks galore
    By McKibben Jackinsky • October 24, 2013 10:43 am

    Halloween — the time of year when dressing wacky is more than a Homer fashion statement, treats are more plentiful…

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    While Seaman Mike Ferraro, left, pieces together body parts, Ensign Brian Henderson tests fake blood in preparation for the Haunted Hickory’s 2010 scare-a-thon. The Haunted Hickory has become a Homer Halloween tradition.-Homer News file photo
    USCGC Hickory: Haunting Homer for 10 years
    By Michael Armstrong • October 17, 2013 9:56 am

    When the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Sedge left Homer in 2002, some thought that after more than 20 years the…

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    Leo Ogle, left, and Mike Illg share a light moment in their serious quest to fund neurofibromatosis research.-Photo by Denise Pitzman
    Looking for a cure one step at a...
    By McKibben Jackinsky • October 9, 2013 4:37 pm

    Combining his Boston roots with his love of running, Homer resident Mike Illg is aiming for a prize more important…

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    Capt. Billy Pepper steers the R/V Tiˆglaˆx toward the fish dock to offload supplies on Monday.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News
    R/V TiˆGlaˆX: across the USA four times
    By Michael Armstrong • October 2, 2013 4:53 pm

    Some mariners might think they’ve put a few miles on their engines this summer, but bragging rights in the harbor…

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    Land’s End Resort-Chart Room Restaurant’s executive chef Billy Roberson, director of hospitality Darrel Oliver and, from the resort’s human resource office, Christina Fenner offer melt-in-your-mouth servings of elk meatloaf atop a potato pancake.-Photo by McKibben Jackinsky, Homer News
    Taste of Homer a ‘flawless’ event
    By McKibben Jackinsky • September 26, 2013 11:26 am

    It was shoulder-to-shoulder, plate-to-plate and cup-to-cup at Wasabi’s on Saturday for the first Taste of Homer, with 19 participating vendors…

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    The 10th annual Burning Basket celebration glows bright against Sunday’s darkening sky.-Photo by Heather Ericson, special to the Homer News
    10th Annual Burning Basket: ‘Enjoy’
    By HEATHER ERICSON • September 18, 2013 5:29 pm

    The autumn equinox was set ablaze with Homer’s annual burning basket on Sept. 15. The mythical tale all began in…

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    Emmy, a Newfoundland, follows her nose to the sweet birch with companion Ken Rucker.-Photo by McKibben Jackinsky, Homer News
    A Dog’s Nose Knows
    By McKibben Jackinsky • September 11, 2013 2:51 pm

    Look at a dog face-to-face and what stands out? Its nose. Put a dog in a new environment and what…

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    A kayak frame is in front of a kayak with a skin at an earlier wooden boat festival. Below is the festival logo drawn by Chelsea and Marissa Lind.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News
    Wooden Boat Festival features ‘Year of the Kayak”
    By Michael Armstrong • September 5, 2013 7:21 am

    Last Saturday for Tamamta Katurlluta, the gathering of Alaska Native traditions, a small fleet of skin-on-frame kayaks and one big…

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    At the 2006 qayak landing (this photo), dancers from Savoonga (next photo) provided a welcome. -Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News
    Tamamta Katurlluta combines native Traditions
    By McKibben Jackinsky • August 28, 2013 6:00 pm

    From Nanwalek elder Nick Tanape’s desire to let people know “who we are that existed in Cook Inlet, Kachemak Bay…

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