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Dr. Paul Sayer of Homer and his friend Dick Newton pose for a photo in Nome on a previous trip.-Photo provided

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Homer doctor, friends snowmachine to Nome

For the 22nd year, Paul Sayer, a Homer physician, is getting ready to take the same two-week, mid-winter…

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Council considers other planning issues

In other action, the Homer City Council looked at other planning issues. On its agenda and up for…

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Trial date reset for Resetarits brothers

A trial date has been reset for Anthony Resetarits, 21, and Joseph Resetarits, 19. In a hearing on…

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Pioneer Avenue traffic stop leads to tense trooper encounter

A traffic stop last Thursday evening on Pioneer Avenue turned into a tense encounter when Alaska State Troopers…

Four-year-old Jackson Woodhead claims trophies he received during the Snow Rondi’s pinewood derby. He also went home with an armload of trophies, ribbons and candy bars he won in ski events.-Photo provided

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Anchor Point Snow Rondi Results

Feb. 20-23 Parade First place: Girl Scout Troop 211 Second place: Trailblazers 4H Third place: Boy Scout Pack…

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Police arrest man for assault

A taxi cab driver fended off a knife attack by forcing a passenger to drop the knife and…

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Council sets timetable for charter commission process

At its Feb. 10 regular meeting, the Homer City Council set a timetable for the next step in…

Kim McNett rides a rough-terrain unicycle on the obstacle course at the 2012 Homer Big Fat Bike Festival.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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It’s time for Big Fat Bike Fest

For more than 100 years people have been doing amazing things with bicycles in Alaska. In 1898, a…

The landing for Ramp 7 is blocked off on the float where the wooden supports holding the ramp skid failed.-Photo by Michael Armstrong; Homer News

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Broken ramp removed from harbor after failing in low tide

Contractors and city workers last week removed Ramp 7 from the harbor. Ramp 7 is the ramp that…

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Quiet Creek preliminary plat goes before council

The Homer City Council at its Monday night meeting will consider a resolution to disapprove the Homer Advisory…

Despite 15-degree cold last Thursday, contractors worked on extending the natural gas pipeline out to the end of the Homer Spit.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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City won’t appeal gas assessment ruling on condos

The city of Homer won’t appeal a decision by Kenai Superior Court Judge Charles Huguelet that overturned a…

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Buccaneer to abandon its West Eagle project

After drilling 3,700 feet and not hitting hydrocarbons, Buccaneer Energy Alaska will abandon its West Eagle No. 1…

Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

Crime & Justice

One Billion Rising

Participants in Homer Rising, the local version of One Billion Rising, dance at the end of the event…