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    USCGC Hickory
    Jose J. Correa was named Fall 2014 Sailor of the Quarter for the USCGC Hickory.
    Correa named ‘sailor of the quarter’
    By McKibben Jackinsky • December 3, 2014 4:56 pm

    The chiefs and command of the USCGC Hickory have announced their selection of Jose J. Correa, a machinery technician second…

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    Seaman apprentice Mike Threadgill appears to lose his head in the Halloween madness of the 1991 Haunted Sedge. -File photo
    Haunted Hickory: Always ready for frightening fun
    By McKibben Jackinsky • October 15, 2014 2:01 pm

    The U.S. Coast Guard’s motto “Semper Paratus” — Latin for “always ready” — perfectly sums up the decades-long attitude of…

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    While Seaman Mike Ferraro, left, pieces together body parts, Ensign Brian Henderson tests fake blood in preparation for the Haunted Hickory’s 2010 scare-a-thon. The Haunted Hickory has become a Homer Halloween tradition.-Homer News file photo
    USCGC Hickory: Haunting Homer for 10 years
    By Michael Armstrong • October 17, 2013 9:56 am

    When the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Sedge left Homer in 2002, some thought that after more than 20 years the…

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    The Endeavour-Spirit of Indepedence passes by the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Buoy Tender Hickory. The Hickory returned to Homer on March 27 after 10 weeks of dockside maintenance.
    Hickory returns to Homer
    By Staff report • April 3, 2013 4:38 pm

    After 10 weeks of dockside maintenance in Long Beach, Calif., the USCGC Hickory and crew returned to Homer last week….

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