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State Trooper Reports

Troopers Nov. 24 Alaska State Troopers at about 11 a.m. arrested a 17-year-old juvenile following an investigation into…

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State Trooper Reports

Troopers Nov. 24 Alaska State Troopers at about 11 a.m. arrested a 17-year-old juvenile following an investigation into…

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Announcements

Announcements The Kachemak Bay Research Reserve Community Council invites the public to its regular quarterly meeting from noon-3…

Daylynn Yenney of Homer, third from left; Garrett Cooper of Anchor Point, far right; and other participants of the Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program Middle School Academy observe the strength of a bridge built during the academy.

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Area students attend academy on engineering

Staff report Five students from the southern Kenai Peninsula were among 48 from the Kenai Peninsula Borough School…

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State Trooper Reports

Troopers Nov. 19 Alaska State Troopers at 10:06 a.m. went to a single-car rollover at Mile 130.5 Sterling…

Homer High School students Evan Boyer, Sarah Wolf and Zane Boyer help with the Kachemak Bay Lions Thanksgiving Basket Program at the Homer United Methodist Church on Saturday morning.-Photo by McKibben Jackinsky, Homer News

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Homer’s recipe for a happy Thanksgiving

Forget the 9 a.m. posted start time for Kachemak Bay Lions Thanksgiving Basket Program’s packing of food boxes…

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Announcements

Susie Amundson teaches Self Compassion for Women: Going Beyond Coffee, Chocolate and Wine from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday…

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Veterans Day parade is Tuesday

Homer Veterans Day ceremonies begin at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Homer Elks Emblem Club Veterans Memorial at…

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Kenai man pleads guilty to manslaughter in 2010 crash

More than four years after a 2010 Memorial Day weekend car crash killed a Washington, D.C., woman, a…

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State Troopers Reports

Troopers Oct. 12 Alaska State Bureau of Highway Patrol Troopers at 3:14 p.m., were patrolling near mile 142…

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State Trooper Reports

Oct. 17 Alaska State Troopers at 1:30 p.m. responded to a 911 call reporting an assault in progress…

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Deed restriction should be retained

Dear Kenai Peninsula Borough Planning Commission,  My wife and I live near the former Homer Middle School, 450…

Owner Tim Wisniewski, left, and his son, Grant, have opened Homer Funeral Home on the corner of Main Street and the Sterling Highway. Their other southern peninsula location on Diamond Ridge also remains open.-Photo by McKibben Jackinsky, Homer News

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Homer Funeral Home opens new location

Having begun serving the Homer area in 1976, Peninsula Funeral Chapels opened Homer Funeral Home on Diamond Ridge…