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Nicolas Petit claims his first T200 victory, third win in a row
Editor’s note: This article has been updated to correct the years that the T200 race was canceled. Musher…
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Kayak building class keeps ancient Inuit art alive
I gently set my new skin-on-frame sea kayak into the Mariner Slough, and then shoehorned myself into the…
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Dispatches From the WWOOF Capital of Alaska
Of the 80 or so farms, homesteads, ranches, hatcheries and homestays that make up the Worldwide Workers on…
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The adventure trail
The idea behind any wilderness bicycling adventure is to ride as much as possible. This often means shifting…
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New trails complete at Karen Hornaday
As if there weren’t already enough reasons to love Homer’s Karen Hornaday Park, a group of service-minded volunteers…
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Learning from the tourists: halibut fishing is a heck of a lot of fun
Every summer we jaded Homerites sometimes scoff at the sport halibut fishermen who head out almost daily (except…
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‘Mud, mud, glorious mud’
“Whoever came up with this idea is a genius!” a young girl proclaimed as she slipped and splashed…
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Big bird, big appetite
A bald eagle sits near its nest by the Homer motorhome dump on June 24, 2017, across the…
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Shorebird celebrates 25 years
The 25th annual Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival celebrates its silver anniversary with a look backward to one of…
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24th Annual Winter King tournament is March 18
The Homer Chamber of Commerce is gearing up for the 24th Annual Homer Winter King Salmon Tournament (WKT)…
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64 species, 10,492 individual birds seen during Homer’s annual Christmas bird count
Forty-two volunteers participated in Homer’s annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count, five watching feeders in their own yard and…
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Strange fish found in deep waters
Jay Landreville, deckhand on the Arctic Envy of Silver Fox Charters, holds up a wolf-fish a client caught…