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    In Our Backyard
    homer's winter carnival celebrates the season
    homer’s winter carnival celebrates the season
    By McKibben Jackinsky • February 18, 2013 4:59 pm

    Sunshine, slush, ice, rain, snow … you name it, the 2013 Homer Winter Carnival had a little of everything. It…

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    From left, Pam Hoker, Vanessa Bale and Mary Jo Gates prepare for a six-week support group for caregivers of loved ones with dementia that begins Feb. 14.
    Support group takes shape to care for those...
    By McKibben Jackinsky • February 18, 2013 2:29 pm

    Once asked by an interviewer for the most important piece of advice she had for caregivers, Kate Mulgrew, the actress…

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    Homer Winter Carnival: Mardi Gras, Kachemak Style
    Homer Winter Carnival: Mardi Gras, Kachemak Style
    By Michael Armstrong • February 4, 2013 1:28 pm

    New Orleans has its Mardi Gras, Anchorage has Fur Rendezvous, but here in Homer we do our annual Winter Carnival…

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    Will Files finds talking points in the writings of
    community conversation: thou shalt kill?
    By McKibben Jackinsky • January 24, 2013 3:54 pm

    Read the headlines and see new stories about murders, shootings and all manner of violence and it’s easy to wonder…

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    Mountainfilm: Armchair adventure
    Mountainfilm: Armchair adventure
    January 24, 2013 1:52 pm

    BY MICHAEL ARMSTRONG STAFF WRITER All your Facebook buddies might be posting photos of themselves surfing in Maui and you…

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    Students in a North America Outdoor Institute avalanche education seminar in Seward learn how to use probes to find avalanche victims.          -Photo provided
    Avalanche know-how offered for youth, adults
    By McKibben Jackinsky • January 24, 2013 1:00 pm

    Homer may not be nestled in the shadow of a cornice lining the ridge of a snow-covered mountain or —…

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    New Year’s Eve contra dance at Tolman’s boat shop,
    new year’s eve at renn’s: the highlight of...
    By Michael Armstrong • January 24, 2013 10:45 am

    On a howling New Year’s Eve night with snow and rain flying sideways, someone driving by Renn Tolman’s boat shop…

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    Beluga Slough Trail: A skookum new trail for popular hike
    Beluga Slough Trail: A skookum new trail for...
    December 20, 2012 11:10 am

    BY MICHAEL ARMSTRONG STAFF WRITER Whether during the Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival, on one of the Kachemak Bay Research Reserve…

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    An twinkling outline of lights decorates this building, thanks to Ninilchik General Store.
    Ninilchik fairgrounds: a stage for ‘christmas tree lane’
    December 13, 2012 11:32 am

    By McKibben Jackinsky Staff writer Christmas carols mention a Santa Claus Lane: “Here comes Santa Claus, here comes Santa Claus,…

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    Rachel Romberg, victim services coordinator for South Peninsula Haven House, poses after running a Mindfulness Meeting last Friday.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News
    Mindfulness meeting: finding weekly serenity
    By Michael Armstrong • December 6, 2012 11:43 am

    Stressed out? Anxious? Maybe the holiday chaos has gotten to you. Maybe the bills have stacked up and you’re trying…

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    Scott Miller greets customers to his booth at the 2011 Nutcracker Faire. Miller makes inlaid wooden pendants and small plaques.-Photos by Michael Armstrong, Homer News
    Nutcracker Faire: something for everyone, even Santa
    By McKibben Jackinsky • November 29, 2012 3:56 pm

    By  The sights and sounds of the Christmas holiday will fill the Homer High School commons and gym this weekend…

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    Hungry members of the public enjoy the 2011 Share the Spirit spaghetti feed.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News
    Spirit of sharing fills holiday season
    By McKibben Jackinsky • November 21, 2012 11:18 am

    By McKibben Jackinsky Staff writer It’s full-steam ahead into the holiday season with Share the Spirit, a community-wide effort to…

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    South Peninsula Haven House Executive Director Jessica Lawmaster, left, and victims services coordinator Rachel Romberg, right, hold up the Homer Thrift sign at the store on East End Road-Photos by Michael Armstrong, Homer News
    Homer thrift: more than a second-hand store
    By Michael Armstrong • November 15, 2012 3:34 pm

    For women and children staying at South Peninsula Haven House, the domestic violence shelter has an in-house second-hand clothing supply….

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