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Kachemak Bay Family Planning Clinic & The R.E.C. Room: Bean bag chairs, DVD movies, a lawn mower, gravel…

Girl Scout Troop 211 and Boy Scout Pack 81 are helping prepare food for the Anchor Point Food Pantry’s weekly meal. Working on the March 24 meal are, from left, Andy Drake, Andy Nelson, Russell Nyvall, Zak Martin, AJ Toci, Reily Drake and Amanda Toci. Not pictured: Ilana and Kaasha Bice, Morgan Carlson, Kelly Colleen Carlson, Sophie Ellison, Autumn Jennings and Natalie Hinsberger.-Photo by Gibby Bachiochi

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Helping hands strengthen Anchor Point food pantry

A little help from here, a little help from there. For the Anchor Point Food Pantry, that help…

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Turf field work starts this month

A few more events to get out of the way for the spring sports season and work will…

Photo by McKibben Jackinsky, Homer News

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Show some attitude!

Humans aren’t the only ones to show off when having their picture taken. This eagle, on the bluff…

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Is pay keeping some off council?

Would the Homer City Council get more middle-income residents, parents and small-business owners running for office if it…

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Tustumena ferry meetings set

The Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities (DOT&PF) will present the Tustumena Replacement Vessel Reconnaissance Report to…

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KBC commencement May 7

The Kachemak Bay Campus, Kenai Peninsula College-University of Alaska Anchorage, has announced the 2014 commencement will be at…

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Hospice moving to Pioneer

Effective May 5, Hospice of Homer is moving to a new location at 265 E. Pioneer Ave., Suite…

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Council meets on six ethics complaints

The Homer City Council in a special meeting Monday night investigated six more ethics complaints. Acting as the…

Thea Person snuggles with a baby goat in Alaska Islands and Ocean Visitor Center’s outdoor amphitheater during Saturday’s Earth Day celebration.-Photo by McKibben Jackinsky, Homer News

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Busy weekend, Homer style

Earth Day celebrations spreading from Alaska Islands and Ocean Visitor Center, along Beluga Slough Trail and to Bishops…

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Annual recycling event scheduled for Saturday

Cook Inletkeeper announces the Ninth Annual Homer Electronics Recycling Day will take place from 10 a.m.-3p.m. Saturday at…

Carey Meyer, public works director, right, and Steve Delehanty, Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge director, second from right, talk with Angie Otteson, parks maintenance director, about installing a Wendy Erd poem on the Beluga Slough Trail. Camp fee collector Bruce Babbitt is at left.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Celebrating Earth Day

Everyday is like thisthe short and long of forgetting:a man with a walking stick, a limp;his daughter in…

Mike Illg of Homer completed Monday’s Boston Marathon as a way to raise research dollars for the Children’s Tumor Foundation.-Photo provided

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Homer’s Mike Illg finishes Boston Marathon strong

Following the fatal bombings at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon, “Boston strong” became a guiding…