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Council knocks off 26-item punch list

With an agenda rivaling a contractor’s punch list of things to do before freeze up, the Homer City…

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Another great event in Homer

On June 19-20, the Kachemak Bay Celtic Club had the good fortune and perfect weather to entertain residents…

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Put this on your to-do list

Back-to-school preparation begins now, and an important part of that is making sure your child’s health is in…

Petals have started to fall off fireweed at the Homer Harbor on Tuesday — a sign that summer is either early or already fading.-Photo by Michael Armstrong

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Nature of the Spit

In 1966, when Daisy Lee Bitter, then a middle school science teacher in Anchorage, first brought a school…

Warm weather means  banner year for those growing oysters in bay

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Warm weather means banner year for those growing oysters in bay

The Kachemak Shellfish Mariculture Association, or KSMA, has been cultivating its dream of a local oyster hatchery in…

Jill Brown (foreground) dipnets alongside Chelsee Largo (background) on Kenai’s north beach on Sunday, July 19. Dipnetting on the Kenai River is open through July 31. People heading to the Kenai River should expect a crowd as sockeye numbers have been increasing over the last few days.-Photo by Ben Boettger, Morris News Service - Alaska

Outdoors & Recreation

Silvers pickier than pinks (and taste better, too)

Let’s face it. Putting the hammer on silvers while they are cruising beneath our inlet waters or doing…

Chicago-based and Grammy Award winning ensemble “eighth blackbird” will be the featured guest artists at this year’s Wild Shore Festival for New Music Aug. 5-11.-Photo provided

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Wild Shore fest designed to inspire, create new music

What do you hear when the tide rushes in or deviously trickles out? A soothing change of pace?…

Bay Welding’s Brad Howe caps 3 1/2-inch holes used to fill the circle hook sculpture with concrete to keep it from shuddering in a stiff breeze.-Photo by Miranda Weiss

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City ends hook’s shudders

You can’t venture onto the Homer Spit without noticing something new and interesting — totes of beautiful red…

John Edward “Ed” Tillman

Obituaries

John Edward “Ed” Tillman

John Edward Tillman, 48, died at home in Homer on July 10, 2015.  A memorial service will be…

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Announcements

Homer Thrift, the resale store operated by South Peninsula Haven House, has moved to a new location on…

Linda Scott of Bloomington, Minn., poses with the 224.4-pound halibut she caught while fishing with DeepStrike Sportsfishing aboard the Grand Aleutian captained by David Bayes. She is the current leader in the Homer Jackpot Halibut Derby.

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Minnesota woman takes lead in derby

It was an interesting past week for the sports fishing crowd. A distaff member of the flatfish hunting…

What happens to those halibut after being caught?

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What happens to those halibut after being caught?

When you pull over Baycrest Hill and catch a glimpse of the Spit, it almost looks like a…

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Troopers

June 26 Alaska Wildlife Troopers cited a 44-year-old Homer man and an 18-year-old Homer man for failing to…