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Council extends grace period for gas assessments

Homer property owners who missed the Sept. 1 deadline to make Natural Gas Homer Special Assessment District payments…

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Meetings explore fiscal gap solutions

At meetings in Homer and Ninilchik last week, Alaska Department of Revenue Commissioner Randy Hoffbeck laid out the…

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Enrollment down, funding at risk

Enrollment for the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District is hovering at 90 fewer students than originally projected, which…

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Reynolds to delay introduction of beach ordinance

A proposed ordinance that would restrict driving on Homer beaches east of Bishop’s Beach won’t be introduced until…

Holly Van Pelt, left, and Janie Leask, right, compete in the mixed doubles.-Photo provided

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Homer pickleball players bring home the gold

One of Homer’s newest sports might have a funny name, but pickleball has become a great sport accessible…

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Injuries sustained at fairgrounds plague quilter year after incident

The intricate patterns of quilts made by Laveda Youngblood reflect the 80-year-old’s artistry. For more than 20 years,…

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Increase in stranded sea otters seen

There has been a recent increase in the number of dead sea otters washing ashore on Kachemak Bay…

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Seaton holds meetings on revenue this week

As the city of Homer starts its budget debate at the next Homer City Council meeting on Monday,…

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Citizens pay up for gas

On Tuesday, a week after Homer property owners were to have paid the first installment on their Homer…

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10 things to know about upcoming load and launch ramp replacement

1. The Load and Launch Ramp will be closed Sept. 15-Dec. 15. 2. Rebar sticks out of the…

A woman sits on a bench outside The Better Sweater on Labor Day. Although some places will remain open until next week and the last visit on Tuesday of the cruise ship Statendam, many Spit stores and restaurants closed on Monday.

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It’s a wrap

Update: The caption has been corrected on the fishhook sculpture photo properly identifying it as a circle hook.…

Fig. 2. Global climate models scaled to the Kenai predict warmer summers throughout this century. The models predict that post-2030 mean summer temperatures will always be above the threshold for large spruce bark beetle outbreaks, if there are any trees available.  Observed temperatures are from the Homer airport since 1932. Climate models are Germany (green), Canada (red) and USA (black). Lower graph shows annual beetle-kill for southern Kenai since aerial surveys began in 1971 (US Forest Service). -Graphic by Ed Berg

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Warm summers prepare for spruce bark beetle return

If you lived in the woods on the Kenai Peninsula in the 1990s, you may not want to…

Alaska Perfect Peony owner Rita Jo Shoultz of Homer prepared a bouquet for President Obama’s hotel suite in Anchorage. Shoultz credited Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, for making it possible for her peonies to play a part in the presidential visit.-Photo provided

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Local peonies grace Obama hotel suite

Though President Barack Obama’s three-day visit to Alaska this week didn’t bring him to the lower Kenai Peninsula,…