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Gardening season begins in earnest
February. The days are certainly noticeably longer. The weather certainly noticeably strange. Winter started three weeks ago. Does…
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Fatbike Homer: Big Fat Bike Festival is Feb. 21-23
For more than 100 years people have been doing amazing things with bicycles, in Alaska. In 1898 a…
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Pigs, parade back for ’13 Ninilchik fair
The Ninilchik fairgrounds was home to two days of rodeo excitement in July. Last weekend it was the…
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Dipnetting goes 24/7 on Kenai River
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game Monday announced the extension of Kenai River personal-use dipnet fishing to…
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Area shooters medal during black powder event held July 10-14
Four Anchor Point shooters and one Nikolaevsk shooter competed at the Alaska State Territorial Shoot July 10-14. Four…
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Dipnetters not allowed to keep kings
Dipnetters participating in the personal-use fishery at the mouth of the Kenai River are prohibited from retaining king…
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Rain can’t dampen rodeo excitement
One minute, Kenai Peninsula Fairgrounds’ bleachers were empty and water-soaked clouds hovered above the rodeo arena. Within minutes,…
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Morning Star wins regatta
Claiming first place for the first time in the Homer Yacht Club’s annual regatta was Capt. Ron Downing…
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Annual Homer Spit Run
The deadline to register online for the annual “10K to the Bay” Spit Run has passed, but registration…
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Two-day regatta marks 17th year
In Homer’s version of the America’s Cup, the Homer Yacht Club-Land’s End Regatta is this weekend, with boats…
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Homer kids discover nature, themselves on grand adventure
Few Homer and Anchor Point youth have been charged by a brown bear, but that’s something 12 middle…
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Horse Expo returns to peninsula for second year
The Great Alaska Horse Expo, begun last summer by former Anchor Point resident Allison Trimble, is making a…
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Horse Camp teaches campers life lessons
More than 30 years ago, at the urging of Carrol Martin, Shirley (Schollenberg) Cox began Horse Camp. Shirley…