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Hospice appreciates grant

Hospice of Homer would like to recognize the David and Mary Schroer Fund, a donor-advised fund at the…

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Faire, ballet usher in holidays

The holiday season was heralded in again with another season of the Nutcracker Faire. Thank you to the…

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4,373 pounds of debris picked up

The Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies completed its 28th year of the Kachemak Bay CoastWalk citizen monitoring program…

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State delays decision on heli-skiing

BY MICHAEL ARMSTRONG STAFF WRITER Following a comment period that brought 1,500 comments from all over Alaska and…

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Business Breifs

Three local entrepreneurs receive business boost Ideas for a baby caregiver network, unique home furnishings and a business…

Mark Kinney and Brandon Moonin sample water quality at Port Graham.-Photo provided

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Mark Kinney retires after 23 years in Homer’s conservation service office

After serving for 23 years as the district conservationist for the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Office (formerly…

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Kachemak City seeks gas line investors

Homer isn’t the only city trying to figure out how to finance natural gas delivery to city residents…

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Community health survey needs volunteers for distribution

The “Perceptions of Community Health” survey is currently underway and help is needed. Megan Murphy, coordinator of MAPP…

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Hilts named school board association president-elect

Elected to the Kenai Peninsula Borough School Board in 2003, Sunni Hilts of Seldovia has now been chosen…

Sports

Grapplers defeat Stars, but fall to Kenai, Skyview

The Mariners took on three Kenai Peninsula opponents last week in Soldotna, Kenai and Skyview. The Mariners went…

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Troopers

Alaska Wildlife Troopers issued a summons to a 24-year-old Homer man for commercial fishing with a drift net…

KBC Director Carol Swartz poses with Gov. Sean Parnell after being recognized as one of the recipients of the2012 Governor’s Awards for the Arts and Humanities. The awards were presented at an Oct. 18 dinner at the Hotel Captain Cook in Anchorage. -Photo provided

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‘Distinguished Service to the Humanities’

For nearly a dozen years, writers have been gathering annually on the shores of Kachemak Bay, sharing their…

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School Events

Kenai Peninsula Borough SChool District Today-Nov. 23: Holiday. Homer Flex School Nov. 21: Annual Thanksgiving lunch, noon. Homer…