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Kachemak Selo school site gets board approval

The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Board of Education approved a site for a proposed new Kachemak Selo…

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Lord wins literary award

Homer writer Nancy Lord has won the Alaska Center for the Book 2014 Literary Award. The awards are…

Catches not spectacular, but anglers enjoy success

Outdoors & Recreation

Catches not spectacular, but anglers enjoy success

The Fourth of July celebration was enveloped by such a superb three-day weather forecast that northern worker bees…

In June 1988, KBBI programming director Susan Kernes, left, holds the shovel while development director Cathy Thomas, right, shows Sen. Paul Fischer, R-Soldotna, center left, and Rep. Mike Navarre, D-Kenai, center right, where to break ground for KBBI’s new Kachemak Way studio.-Homer News file photo

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KBBI: Homer’s oldest radio station

Forty-five years ago humans first walked on the moon. By 1979, it’s hard to believe that with advances…

Renn Tolman

Obituaries

Renn Tolman

Homer boatbuilder and musician Renn Tolman passed away peacefully in his tiny beachfront cabin on the afternoon of…

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Please report sandhill crane colt (chick) sightings to Kachemak Crane Watch. Include location, date, time and number of…

Farmers Market

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Farmers Market

The summer is moving along at an incredible pace. The fireweed is already blooming, rather than waiting for…

Homer Volunteer Fire Department firefighter Joe Sallee tosses the sheaf at the Kachemak Bay Scottish Highland Games last year. Sallee wears the firefighter tartan.-Homer News file photo

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Highland Games: Sports with a twist happen Saturday

Kilts, bagpipes, a fake halibut toss, vendors and face paint are a few highlights to look forward to…

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July 4th celebrations abound on southern Kenai Peninsula

From the East Coast to the end of the road — Sterling Highway, that is — America’s birthday…

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Project GRAD scholars look ahead

Project GRAD Kenai Peninsula would like to acknowledge and thank the Homer Foundation’s Youth Advisory Committee for its…

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Cancer run now beach run, ride

It looks like this is the summer for fantastic Spit runs. At Kachemak Bay Family Planning Clinic, we…

More than 200 runners and walkers soak up the sun during the 2014 10K Run to the Bay Spit Run on Saturday.-Photo by Heather Ericson

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Homer High runners finish first in Spit Run

Eighteen-year old Pedro Ochoa, a 2014 Homer High School graduate who was on the school’s cross country and…

Fishing Hole could use a little help

Outdoors & Recreation

Fishing Hole could use a little help

Over the weekend, I took notice of a superfluity of rather unseemly comments concerning the conditions at the…