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A Day to Remember in Homer

For most of us, Memorial Day 2012 Homer marks the beginning of a season of summer fun. But don’t let the real meaning of the holiday get lost amidst the barbecues and beach...

Beluga sightings spark memories

“Since I ran every day, I saw the belugas regularly. They were usually diving for fish. I ran along the beach below the bluff where I lived and the belugas would swim along...

Navarre talks costs

In Kenai Peninsula Borough politics, basic government costs aren't growing. What spikes and spirals upward at near-alarming rates to smaller municipal governments are health...

Mr. ‘Music’ Robinson retires after 27 years of teaching

If Mark Robinson had pursued his initial notion to go into law, thousands of school kids would likely have missed out on a major piece of their education – and life...

Two fires keep crews busy

Kachemak Emergency Services responded to two medical calls and three fire calls last week, a reminder that dangers due to fires could spread to wild-land fires if care is not...

Kenai man charged with murder

Two years after a fatal traffic crash that killed a college student on Alaska vacation outside Homer, Alaska State Troopers arrested a Kenai man and charged him with second-degree...

MAPP grows in partnerships, statistics

In what case might people’s health work against a small Homer tourism company? If running visitors to Gull Island to view puffins is how you earn a living, your boat might...

FYI News briefs & announcements – May 23

Comment opens for EPA Pebble report The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released its draft scientific study of the Bristol Bay watershed and its natural resources. Now public...

Peoples Gardens take root, add to food supply

It’s summer already? Not quite, but the growing season certainly seems to have begun with sure signs all around town. With close to 20 Peoples Gardens sprouting up,...

Letters – May 23

Weigh in on halibut bycatch waste Please take the time to write or sign on to a letter about reducing halibut bycatch for the trawl fleet. Halibut bycatch is the fish the...

Help with first wave of tsunami debris

The Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies is joining the Gulf of Alaska Keeper to conduct the first major cleanup of marine debris caused by the Japan Tsunami event of March 11,...

Homer gasline approved

Gov. Sean Parnell approved funding for the South Peninsula Natural Gas Pipeline Monday, leaving intact the entire $8,150,000 request in the 2013 Capital Budget. The governor said...

Brown bear spotted on Greer Road

A brown bear is the suspected culprit of a chicken coup raid and of seriously damaging a spring garden after ripping into a high tunnel off Greer Road, nine miles East End Road in...

Tiglax gets tied up in first sign of federal budget cuts

In a difficult cost-cutting move, the research vessel the M/V Tiglax will sit tied to the Homer dock for two weeks this summer. The Alaska National Maritime Wildlife Refuge owns...

HoPP recruiting volunteers all week

HoPP will be recruiting building volunteers and helpers for its Karen Hornaday Park Playground Project starting Sunday and running through to May 27. The old Karen Hornaday...

FYI news briefs & announcements – May 16

Senator concerned about debris hazards Hearing tsunami debris concerns rising among Alaska’s fishermen, Sen. Lisa Murkowski reached out to NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco,...

City pursues $5 million port-harbor revenue bond

Fees will increase to help pay for a backlog of neglected harbor maintenance after the Homer City council passed a measure Monday night to pursue matching grant funding with a $5...

Homer’s 7th annual bike to work week

National Bike Month is an opportunity to celebrate the unique power of the bicycle and the many reasons we ride. Whether you bike to work or school; to save money or time; to...

Japan’s nuclear loss is Alaska’s natural gas gain

Japan’s decision to walk away from nuclear power has it scrambling for natural gas, giving the U.S. a chance to be a large-scale energy exporter. A week ago, Japan pulled...

Letters – May 16

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Take time to build healthy women

Starting on Mother’s Day, National Women’s Health Week runs May 13–19, and is a time to encourage making health a priority in the lives of women. This is a week...

Chasing ambulances, dog teams and fish for 30 years

Click here to go to Lavrakas’ Kickstarter page • Help from kickstarter.com means accessible way for book-buyers to own a piece of Lavrakas’ success By Naomi Klouda Homer...

Excavator accident takes local man’s life

A Homer man has died in a construction accident off West Hill Road Friday when an excavator he was operating flipped and crushed him. David William Boone, 57, was pronounced dead...

Shorebird Festival launches a flight of its own

When the Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival was conceived, Homer was only a few seasons outside the doldrums of the 1989 Exxon Valdez Oil Spill. It was a time of concern about the...

Kenai Peninsula School District won’t see red after all

As Kenai Peninsula Borough School District funding settles into a rosier outlook than expected, the district is hoping to get its expenses squared away in its budget, as well,...

Author Mark Obmascik talks about ‘The Big Year’

It’s always interesting to Kachemak Bay Shorebird Coordinator Christina Whiting to hear what a person's lifetime bird is. “A woman told me the other day what she...

HoWL DiRtBaGs Clean Up Homer

They’re dirty, they’re stinky, and they’re picking up your trash. For six days, the HoWL DiRtBaGs have been wading through ditches and trudging through town,...

FYI News briefs & announcements – May 9

Iliamno Volcano updated to ‘yellow’ status The Alaska Volcano Observatory’s latest status report from Saturday afternoon said “seismic activity at...

Community News – May 9

Cash prizes come in as $Homer Bucks$ A new Homer Chamber of Commerce campaign enters into a new practice of giving $500, or less, cash winners “Homer dollars” to use...

Three Homer teachers sweep BP awards

Homer Language Arts Teacher Sean Campbell won BP Teacher of the Year Award 2012 for the Kenai Peninsula, and two other Homer teachers were also named for the honor. Melissa Cloud...

This Mother’s Day, think of lifetime financial moves to help kids

If you’re a mother, you’ll probably get some nice cards and flowers on Mother’s Day. But of course, your greatest gifts are your children themselves. And since...

AmericanTowns Heroes: Edward Palomba Puts Service Above Self

This week's hero is making a difference on a local level. As the chairman of the Children’s Accessible Playground Committee, Edward Palomba has put in his share of...

Tsunami debris reaches Montague

Chris Pallister’s worst nightmare came true over the weekend when he took a first look at the outer islands of Prince William Sound on a flight to check for snow thaw. ...

‘No’ to $2 head tax on tourists

At the end of hearing from about a dozen water taxi and charter boat operators on a proposed $2 head tax, the Homer Port and Harbor Commission nixed the idea entirely. They also...

iPods pair young with elderly for scientific study

Homer seniors got a helping hand on Thursday from three high school students and their wrestling coach, who gave the seniors iPods and showed them how they work. Homer Senior...

Young GED grad’s paths converge on brighter life

Graduations are a springtime celebration for entering a new season in life, a time when a task has been accomplished, and it’s time to move on to new goals. That...

Graduation week celebrates more than 30 degrees

The Kachemak Bay Campus of Kenai Peninsula College announced that the 2012 Commencement will be held Wednesday, May 9 at 7 p.m. at Homer High School’s Mariner Theater. The...

FYI News briefs & announcements – May 2

Aerial wolf kill postponed Kenai Peninsula wolves will get at least a year’s reprieve from state-sanctioned culling. State game officials say they will study the best way to...

Emergency response funding faces better future

Roughly 250 people have been trained on the Kenai Peninsula as Community Emergency Response Team volunteers. Each of us has invested considerable time, effort and devotion to...

Welcome back to the earth

“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had no childhood in it – if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up every spring that we used to gather...

Business as usual, or cautionary tale?

s the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District’s transportation “bailout” from the state business as usual or a cautionary tale? Recently KPBSD changed their...

Pebble Partnership’s quake data lacking

Ken Taylor, the outgoing vice president of environment for the Pebble Partnership, invited Alaskans to read their recently released Environmental Baseline Document in a Compass...

Community News – April 25

“Northern Exposure” showing at KBC The Kachemak Bay Campus-KPC is hosting a screening of several award-winning episodes of Northern Exposure, the hit television series...

VISTA volunteer helps growers sprout

VISTA volunteer Bronwynn Kelly arrived in Homer in January, with deep snows and long nights being her first look at Alaska. “There was this crazy amount of snow, and the...

‘Jubilee:’ Still counting after 25 years

The Homer Council on the Arts’ 25th anniversary of the Jubilee Youth Variety Show has seen a lot of changes since the first year a group assembled in the Homer High School...

Even with low rates, you can invest for income

Not long ago, the Federal Reserve (Fed) announced that it plans to keep short-term interest rates near zero until late 2014. The Fed initially pushed rates to that level in 2008,...

Homer City Council: Time to talk about gasline

Homer City Council discussions will start this spring as local officials learn all the options for how to build-out the natural gasline distribution system. It was a tough road...

Taj Mahal show packs audiences to the brim

Famed blues player Taj Mahal is probably the most requested musical artist ever to come to Homer, a musician whose range of talent spans a global history as much as a rich sound....

Bird poets prepare for shorebird production

“It was a terrible state of affairs, And all because one greedy old man Had gathered all the light– Every single ray– And locked it away In a house with no door,...

Dirtbags plan to clean up Homer, raise funds

A close cousin to the ski bum, the dirtbag is the guy so dedicated to climbing that next pitch, he will literally sleep in the dirt at the base of a wall to get the glory of the...