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Stevens, Seaton to host town hall meeting Monday

Sen. Gary Stevens and Rep. Paul Seaton will host a town hall meeting at Alaska Islands and Oceans…

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Kachemak Bay Celtfest seeks volunteers

With KBBI’s Concert on the Lawn and Homer Council on the Arts Street Fair taking a break this…

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Nonprofit Needs

Homer Animal Friends needs a volunteer staff to spend a few hours at our new store. Donations of gently…

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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Emergency test needs work

If anyone else believes the Emergency Warning System tests are inadequate, it would serve the public if you…

Assistant Chief Doug Loshbaugh of the Anchor Point Emergency Services moves a “patient” out of a field hospital Friday as part of an emergency response exercise with South Peninsula Hospital, Central Peninsula Hospital and the Alaska Division of Public Health’s Section of Emergency Programs. The patient was taken to the Homer Airport to be evacuated by Alaska National Guard Pavehawk helicopters.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Homer’s Best Bets

Go to any meeting around town and you’re likely to hear the call of Homerus cruditis — that…

Giving time, money helps build community

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Giving time, money helps build community

About five years ago, I moved back to my hometown. I wasn’t exactly sure why, or how it…

KBBI’s Concert on the Lawn won’t happen this summer

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KBBI’s Concert on the Lawn won’t happen this summer

KBBI’s annual outdoor music festival Concert on the Lawn (COTL) turned 35 this past summer. The concert began…

A bald eagle sits in a nest near Beluga Slough and the Lake Street stoplight. A pair of bald eagles has nested in the area for several years, first at a tree closer to the light and then in a tree by the motorhome dump station. This tree is a new nest.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Homer’s Best Bets

Not that the Betster actually saw it, but observant citizens reported that last weekend tents covered every square…

Gary Sloan

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Concert on the Lawn moves to new time, recalls station’s past

If it’s late summer, that means it’s Concert on the Lawn time. But wait — it’s not late…

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…

KBBI News Director Aaron Selbig leaves Homer at the end of this month to take a job as news reporter at Interlochen Public Radio, Interlochen, Mich.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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KBBI news director heads to Michigan; Morning Edition host appointed to job

KBBI and KDLL Public Radio News Director Aaron Selbig leaves Homer at the end of this month to…

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Homer recycles e-waste

With our early spring/summer weather, and abundance of fun activities going on, it was gratifying to again see…