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Nanwalek students get their new iPads

Nanwalek School’s 80 students finally received their iPads on Tuesday. The long-awaited celebration was not a quiet one. …

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7 file for 2 council positions

A last-day filing by three candidates on Monday boosted the Homer City Council election from four candidates last…

Obituaries

Patricia Ann Arnold

Patricia Ann Arnold, 70, died July 26, 2015, in Anchorage of natural causes. Services are at 4 p.m.…

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The Kachemak Emergency Service Area Board holds it regular monthly meeting at 7 p.m. today at the Diamond…

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School board enters budget discussions

The Board of Education has started 2017 fiscal year budget discussions. Kenai Peninsula Borough School District administration brought…

Members of the 1967 Homer Nordic ski team pose in front of Homer High School. In front row, from left, are Milli Morawitz, Sally Calhoun, Gayle Gregory and Sally Barnett; in back row, from left, are Lynn Cason, Robbie Hoedel, Larry Martin and Dave Schroer, who was recently inducted into the Alaska High School Hall of Fame.-Photo provided by the Schroer family

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Homer’s Schroer inducted into Hall of Fame

When the state inducted a new class of luminaries into the Alaska High School Hall of Fame, the…

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The Omicron chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma, a service organization of women educators, holds its annual Back to…

The tourist season is in full swing at the Homer Spit.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Homer’s Best Bets

Less than 24 hours after the Homer City Council held its longest meeting in recent memory — 4…

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Assembly nixes changes to service area boundaries

Medical service areas, and the implications of their boundaries, drew the most debate from Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly…

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The Omicron chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma, a service organization of women educators, holds its annual Back to…

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Volunteer looking for housing

MAPP of the Southern Kenai Peninsula is thrilled to welcome VISTA volunteer Paige Meadoows to our community coalition…

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Homer’s Best Bets

OK, Besteroids, here’s something the Betster bets you didn’t know: This is National Moth Week. In celebration of…

Homer business owner Adrienne Sweeney was one of 120 people nationwide to graduate in April from the Babson Cohort of Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses. That’s an intensive entrepreneurship training program to foster job creation and small-business success.-Photo provided

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Entrepreneur brings home national skills

Running a small business is tough, with national surveys showing high attrition rates. Homer certainly has turnover and…