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    Emergency test needs work
    Emergency test needs work
    April 1, 2015 4:19 pm

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

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    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
    Homer’s Best Bets
    March 25, 2015 4:51 pm

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

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    Giving time, money helps build community
    Giving time, money helps build community
    February 25, 2015 3:38 pm

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

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    KBBI’s Concert on the Lawn won’t happen this summer
    KBBI’s Concert on the Lawn won’t happen this...
    By David S. Anderson • January 15, 2015 11:35 am

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

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    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
    Homer’s Best Bets
    July 9, 2014 5:46 pm

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

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    Gary Sloan
    Concert on the Lawn moves to new time,...
    By Michael Armstrong • July 9, 2014 3:31 pm

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

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    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
    KBBI: Homer’s oldest radio station
    By Michael Armstrong • July 9, 2014 2:14 pm

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

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    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
    KBBI news director heads to Michigan; Morning Edition...
    By Michael Armstrong • June 11, 2014 1:35 pm

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

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    Homer recycles e-waste
    Homer recycles e-waste
    May 22, 2014 10:28 am

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

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    Support keeps KBBI running
    Support keeps KBBI running
    April 9, 2014 5:26 pm

    Keeping a radio station on the air and serving a broad community of listeners requires a considerable investment in technical…

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    Take a chance: Pick.Click.Give. and (maybe) double your dividend
    Take a chance: Pick.Click.Give. and (maybe) double your...
    March 26, 2014 5:52 pm

    Alaskans can double their Permanent Fund Dividend this year when they share part of their PFD through the Pick.Click.Give program….

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    Thanks for great reading summer
    Thanks for great reading summer
    August 7, 2013 7:42 pm

    The culmination of the 2013 Summer @ HPL Reading Program happened recently. Hundreds of children, teens and adults took part…

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    Nervis Rex plays at last weekend’s Concert on the Lawn, the major fundraiser for public radio station KBBI.-Photo by McKibben Jackinsky, Homer News
    Another rockin’ COTL from KBBI
    July 31, 2013 5:22 pm

    The first Concert on the Lawn was held 34 years ago. Although the weather was the best the concert has…

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