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    Gov. Bill Walker, left, listens to Homer mayor Beth Wythe, right, after Walker spoke to the Homer City Council on Tuesday. Homer Adivsory Planning Commissioner Roberta Highland, center, watches. -Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News
    Walker: Alaskans must pull together to get out...
    By Michael Armstrong • August 3, 2016 5:30 pm

    In a talk before the Homer City Council on Tuesday, Gov. Bill Walker mentioned a historic photo of Metlakatla villagers…

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    Voters to have say on senior property tax exemption
    Voters to have say on senior property tax...
    By Elizabeth Earl • August 3, 2016 12:50 pm

    Kenai Peninsula voters will decide whether to continue the borough’s optional senior property tax exemption in this fall’s election. The…

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    Senior property tax exemption to go to voters
    Senior property tax exemption to go to voters
    By Elizabeth Earl • July 29, 2016 1:32 pm

    Kenai Peninsula voters will decide whether to continue the borough’s optional senior property tax exemption in this fall’s election. The…

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    Police report increase in drunk calls
    Police report increase in drunk calls
    By Michael Armstrong • July 27, 2016 4:10 pm

    At a Homer City Council work session Monday night on addressing the heroin and opioid epidemic in Homer, Homer Police…

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    Mark Matthews in a recent photo provided by his family.
    Murder probe moves to DA
    By Michael Armstrong • July 27, 2016 4:10 pm

    After years of investigation, Homer’s only unsolved murder now awaits a decision by the Kenai District Attorney on whether charges…

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    Governor to visit Homer,  will meet with city council
    Governor to visit Homer, will meet with city...
    July 27, 2016 4:10 pm

    Gov. Bill Walker visits Homer at 2 p.m. Tuesday for a meeting with Homer Mayor Beth Wythe and the Homer…

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    A K-Bay Air plane, left, and a Cook Inlet Aviation plane, right, are bothe nose down on the beach in Chinitina Bay on the west side of Cook Inlet. Both planes hit soft sand while taxiing.
    Two bear-viewing planes crash at Chinitna Bay
    By Michael Armstrong • July 27, 2016 4:05 pm

    Two Cessna 206 airplanes operated by bear viewing tour companies crashed while taxiing on a Chinitna Bay beach the same…

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    Council talks animal control, water assessments, budget
    Council talks animal control, water assessments, budget
    By Michael Armstrong • July 27, 2016 3:14 pm

    In its first meeting after a short summer break, the Homer City Council on Monday moved forward on issues basic…

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    Hearing continued  in sexual abuse case
    Hearing continued in sexual abuse case
    July 27, 2016 3:14 pm

    Homer District Court Judge Margaret Murphy on July 21 continued a preliminary hearing for Stephen R. Boyle, 43, a Homer…

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    Smoke from the McHugh Creek fire streams into Turnagain Arm and to the south on Tuesday morning.
    Fire smoke hits Homer; burn permits suspended
    By Michael Armstrong • July 20, 2016 5:10 pm

    Unusually warm temperatures, low humidity and dry brush and forest has put fire departments on edge across southcentral Alaska. The…

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    The mural painted on Mary Epperson's former piano studio in 2014 before the condemned building was demolished is a Pokestop in the popular augmented reality game Pokemon Go. The spot where the building now stood is parking of Homer Council on the Art's parking lot.
    Pokemon Go provides time capsules for Homer’s past...
    By Anna Frost • July 20, 2016 5:09 pm

    When people in Homer play Pokemon Go — the augmented reality game that launched in the United States as a…

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    It’s a slow go for cannabis ops
    It’s a slow go for cannabis ops
    By Michael Armstrong • July 20, 2016 5:07 pm

    In the five months since the Alaska Alcohol and Marijuana Control Office began accepting applications for commercial cannabis operations, just…

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    Southern Kenai Peninsula Commercial Cannabis Update
    Southern Kenai Peninsula Commercial Cannabis Update
    July 20, 2016 4:58 pm

    Applications to date: Active— Marijuana Control Board has issued license subject to METRC (Marijuana Enforcement Tracking, Reporting and Compliance) credentialing…

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