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Chamber seeks local buy-in to make shorebird fest financially sustainable

With this year’s Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival quickly approaching, the Homer Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Center is…

Cars drive up a steep hill on Kachemak Drive just beyond where the Homer Spit Trail ends, at lower right. A study suggested a nonmotorized path that would extend the Spit Trail to the bottom of the hill and then follow the beach along Mud Bay.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Council postpones action on Kachemak Drive path

In a work session on April 15 and at the Homer City Council meeting Monday night, the council…

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Council moves forward on Spit rezoning

At the top of a list of items on the Homer City Council’s consent agenda were two items…

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Relay sponsor deadline nears

With 16 teams and an organizing committee hard at work, the 2013 Relay for Life of Homer, benefiting…

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Woman arrested for terroristic threats

Alaska State Troopers last week charged a Port Graham woman with making terroristic threats against her 1-year-old son.…

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Recycling event Saturday

The eighth annual Homer Electronics Recycling Event will be from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at Spenard…

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Keep running, Boston

Local and visiting walkers and runners young and old turned out Saturday to honor victims of the April…

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Hospital honors its volunteers

  Members of the SPH Auxiliary enjoy a moment of recognition at their April monthly meeting. In honor…

Climbers Clare Cook, Shiloh Miller and Renata Miller search for routes on the Bay Club climbing wall. -Photo by Angelina Skowronski

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Climbing competition a ‘HoWLing’ good time

Rock climbing junkies roughed-up their calluses on Saturday for the fourth annual HoWL Climbing Competition at the Bay…

Climbers Clare Cook, Shiloh Miller and Renata Miller search for routes on the Bay Club climbing wall. -Photo by Angelina Skowronski

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Climbing competition a ‘HoWLing’ good time

Rock climbing junkies roughed-up their calluses on Saturday for the fourth annual HoWL Climbing Competition at the Bay…

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Group seeks to let voters decide on pot

ANCHORAGE — Efforts are under way to make Alaska the third state in the country to legalize the…

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Daugherty gets time served

Kenai Superior Court Judge Charles Huguelet sentenced William Daugherty, 47, to time served for a fourth-degree assault conviction.…

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Woman charged with Medicaid fraud

State prosecutors have charged a Homer woman with two counts of medical assistance fraud. Heather Platter, 31, was…