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Poster and songwriting contests are being held on the theme of promoting resiliency. The deadline for the poster…

A bald eagle feeds on a small mammal while sitting on a driftwood tree in Beluga Slough last Thursday. Another eagle watched from the nest across from the Lake Street stoplight.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Homer’s Best Bets

Just when you think the world might be getting back to normal, shazam, things have to go all…

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City, Castner agree to stay in judge’s order

The city of Homer and Ken Castner have agreed to a stay of a judge’s order enforcing a…

Daisy Lee Bitter poses with a magazine cover featuring the log cache that presides over the driveway to her peony farm. The cache is particularly significant to Bitter, as her late husband, Conrad, was quite proud of it. The spruce logs were first recycled by the Bitters from the old Kenai Burn. They used them to build a garden fence, which a cow moose destroyed. After that, they asked Barrett Fletcher to recycle them again, by constructing the log cache. On Thursday, Oct. 14, 1999, the cache appeared on the front page of the Homer News. The irony of that, says Bitter, was that her husband died that same day. The cache was more recently featured in December 2011 on the cover of Alaska Magazine, trimmed with clear lights and covered in snow. -Photo by Toni Ross

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Homer legend loves to learn, share

She’s been named a master gardener, lifelong learner and citizen of the year — and the list goes…

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The Cook Inlet Regional Citizens Advisory Council (CIRCAC) holds its board meeting at 9 a.m. Friday at Cook…

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School Events

May 1: Early release day. May 4: School board meeting, Seward. June 1: School board meeting, Soldotna. June…

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Judge orders city to stop ‘unlawful’ gas assessments for condo owners

In a harsh rebuke to how the city of Homer assessed condominiums for the Homer Natural Gas Assessment…

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The Homer Farmers Market holds a film night fundraiser of “Seeds of Time” at 7 p.m. today at…

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Judge orders city to cease assessing condos differently

In a harsh rebuke to how the city of Homer assessed condominiums, Kenai Superior Court Judge Charles Huguelet…

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State Trooper Report

March 21 Alaska State Troopers at 1 p.m. went to a report of an assault at a Nanwalek…

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Martin Renner, a local seabird ecologist and lifelong birder, presents a program on Shorebird identification at 7:30 p.m.…

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Suicide prevention training offered

The Rotary Clubs of Homer Downtown and Homer Kachemak Bay will hold a free, two-hour suicide-prevention training program…

Registration starts for conference

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Registration starts for conference

Early registration is going on now for the 2015 Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference to be held June 12-16…