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Gary Thomas is photographed at the wedding of his and Laura Patty's daughter in 2018. Photo provided by Laura Patty

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Memorial for ‘The Giving Man’

Square and contra dance event honors Gary Thomas

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Community recreation manager Mike Illg at his office in Homer High School.

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Homer community recreation offers new fall activities

The Homer Community Recreation Program offers an array of recreational and educational classes and programs for participants of…

Homer City Hall. (Homer News file photo)

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Council approves increased community recreation fees

Homer City Council passed a resolution last Monday adding community recreation participation fees to the city fee schedule…

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City pivots after hazmat reports released for HERC

It looks like the HERC will be sticking around town a while longer.

Karen Hornaday Memorial tree and placard with upgrades from the 2023 summer.  Emilie Springer/ Homer News

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Playground receives an equipment upgrade

Other transitions to the city facilities are in scoping for 2024

The SPARC building is photographed on Saturday, May 27, 2023 in Homer, Alaska. Photo by Delcenia Cosman / Homer News

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SPARC awarded funding for new floor

The facility’s current flooring, constructed from used materials, was always meant to be a temporary solution

Audre Hickey testifies in opposition to an ordinance that would implement a citywide lewdness prohibition in Soldotna during a city council meeting on Wednesday, March 22, 2023, in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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Soldotna council kills citywide lewdness ordinance

The decision followed lengthy public comment

Dallas Seavey poses with his dogs after winning the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race race near Willow, Alaska, early Monday, March 15, 2021. (Marc Lester/Anchorage Daily News via AP)

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Dallas Seavey wins Iditarod, matches most wins by a musher

ANCHORAGE — Ever since Dallas Seavey became the youngest musher to win the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race…

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The author gets warm with a mask at Alaska’s Matanuska Glacier on Sunday, March 7, 20201.

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Out of the Office: Warming up to masks

A March 3 lead paragraph in a news story in The New York Times asked, “When can I…

A section of Nordic ski trail is groomed in this undated photo in the Homer, Alaska area. (Photo by Kenny Daher)

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Alternative offered for annual ski marathon

Skiers invited to traverse 42-kilometer course all month long

A day on Kachemak Bay. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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Out of the Office: Water taxi talking

Reporters spend a lot of time talking to people: people they don’t know, people they do know, people…

Phil Basargin 5-year-old Maxim Basargin around the ice Saturday, Feb. 6, 2021 during the Skate the Lake event on Beluga Lake in Homer, Alaska. The free skating event was hosted for the community by the Homer Hockey Association. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

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Homerites take to the lake in skate event

Homer Hockey Association hosted Skate the Lake for the community

The top three fish of this year’s Winter King Salmon Tournament hang on a wall before a closing ceremony announcing the winners on March 24, 2018 on the Spit in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

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Homer Winter King Salmon Tournament moved to April

The annual Homer Winter King Salmon Tournament returns this year after a one-year hiatus, and has been pushed…