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2013 Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference

  WHEN: June 14-18 WHERE: Land’s End Resort Keynote speaker: Naomi Shihab Nye Cost: $375 through 5 p.m.,…

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  There will be a regular meeting of the Kachemak Bay Birders at 4:30 p.m. Monday at the…

Madalyn Miotke, 3, sharpens her bike-handling skills during the 2012 Safe Kids Fair bicycle rodeo at Homer High School.-Photo by McKibben Jackinsky, Homer News

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Fair celebrates 21 years of kid safety

Think you know all there is to know about washing germs off your hands? Stick them under Scrub…

Eryn Field sits with a curious king penguin chick (a.k.a. “Oakum Boy”) and king penguin colony in January at St. Andrew’s Bay on South Georgia Island.-All images provided and taken by Carmen or Conrad Fields

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Alaskans in Antarctica: Fields share their adventures

There’s a popular saying about being in the right place at the right time. For local wildlife biologists…

Arts & Entertainment

KBC student art show opens April 26

An opening reception for the Kachemak Bay Campus student art showcase is 5 to 7 p.m. April 26…

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Kachemak Bay Birders hold a birding trip to Mossy Kilcher’s Seaside Farms on East End Road at 9…

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Nanwalek-Port Graham airport plan moving forward — slowly

With the release last month of an environmental assessment, planning has moved forward for a new airstrip to…

Youth anglers, assisted by parents, ring the Nick Dudiak Fishing Lagoon during the 2009 Kids Fishing Day.-Photo by McKibben Jackinsky, Homer News

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Fishing Hole runs hard to predict

Eagles are flying over it and seals are poking their heads above its surface, but will fish be…

Sports

Run, walk on Fridays

The Friday Night Fives began last Friday, with more than a dozen walkers and runners, and a few…

Richard L. Sprague

Obituaries

Richard L. Sprague

Richard Lewis Sprague, 96, died on Tuesday, April 2, 2013, at South Peninsula Hospital in Homer. He had…

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Announcements

The Cook Inlet Regional Planning Team (CIRPT) will hold a regular meeting at 9:30 a.m. April 17 in…

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Pratt Museum to host next chamber mixer April 18

The award-winning Pratt Museum will host the next Homer Chamber of Commerce mixer from 5-7 p.m. April 18…

Poot Peak stands out behind the Homer Spit in a view late Monday evening from West Hill Road three days after the jack-up rig Endeavour-Spirit of Independence left.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Homer’s Best Bets

The other day while toiling away in the word mines, the Betster experienced something unknown since last summer.…