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A vintage Underwood typewriter sits on a table on Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022, at the Homer News in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Peninsula media win Alaska Press Club awards

Awards include sweep of COVID-19 reporting category

Homer City Hall. (Homer News file photo)

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Homer council votes down resolution supporting hospital visitation bill

Erickson’s resolution would have supported ‘No Patient Left Behind Act’

Writer Toni Jensen is part of the visiting faculty teaching at the 25th Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference. (Photo provided)

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It’s back: Writers’ Conference returns

20th Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference returns in new location in downtown Homer.

A trailer containing mail for the lower Kenai Peninsula burns on Tuesday, April 26, 2022, on the Seward Highway north of the Seward-Sterling Highway intersection, Alaska. (Photo provided, U.S. Postal Service)

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Trailer fire destroys USPS mail headed to peninsula

Fire in semi-tractor trailer destroys mail bound for some Southern Kenai Peninsula towns.

A pair of sandhill cranes feed Friday, May 8 at Green Timbers on the Homer Spit in Homer. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Out of the Office: Earth Day is bird day

Celebrate Earth Day every day by growing close to nature.

Gregg Brelsford, an independent candidate for Alaska’s U.S. House of Representatives seat, poses for a photo on Friday, April 15, 2022, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer New)

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‘No drama’ Brelsford running for Congress

Former Republican running as an undeclared candidate touts civic experience

Jay Marley, left, captain of the Fly Dough, holds up the John Hillstrand Memorial Award for running the boat that had the winning fish in the 28th annual Homer Winter King Salmon Tournament. Homer Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Center executive director Brad Anderson is at right. Marley’s son, Weston Marley, won the top prize with a 27.38-pound king salmon. Jay Marley also was the top captain in 2021 when his son Andrew also won the tournament. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Team Marley wins again

For the second year in a row, a Marley boy wins the Homer Winter King Salmon Tournament.

McNeil Canyon Elementary School student Cedar Galbraith's watercolor and ink painting. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Jubilee! art show highlights youth talent

Featuring art by youth in kindergarten through high school

The Alan G with C & C Diving and Salvage tows the Cook Inlet Spill Prevention and Response Inc. barge Redoubt away from the Mud Bay beach in Kachemak Bay off Kachemak Drive at about 2:20 p.m. Thursday, March 31, 2022, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Barge runs aground in Mud Bay

Tug hauls vessel off Homer beach on high tide

Michael Heimbuch attends a memorial service for the late Drew Scalzi on Aug. 5, 2005, at the Seafarers Memorial on the Homer Spit in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Heimbuch appointed to Board of Fish

Homer fisherman, former city council member appointed to Board of Fish

Some heart shaped rocks appear as bands of quartz. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Finding heart rocks

Like love, heart rocks appear when you’re not looking for them.

Gary Lee Williams.

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Former Homer mayor, Homer News owner dies

Gary Williams served as mayor during transitional times of 1970s.

“Selected Works and Sketches by Gaye Wolfe,” showing at the Homer Council on the Arts through March, includes these two paintings by Wolfe: a painting of a wildfire, right, and then a self-portrait of Wolfe, left, creating the painting. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Arts council shows eclectic collection of late artist

Gaye Wolfe estate donated vast collection of works to arts council.

About 45 people participated in a demonstration on Thursday, March 3, 2022, at WKFL Park in Homer, Alaska, in support of Ukraine and against the Russian invasion. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Homer supports Ukraine

About 45 people demonstrated on March 3 in support of Ukraine and against the Russian invasion.

A photo by Lisa Williams of Peter Anahanok Sr., part of her show at the Pratt Museum & Park in Homer, Alaska. (Photo provided/Pratt Museum & Park))

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New photo exhibits at the Pratt celebrate community

Pratt Museum & Park photo exhibits feature works by three photographers

A group of young people try out the thawed skate park on Monday, Feb. 28, 2022, at the Homer Education and Recreation Complex in Homer, Alaska. The Homer City Council met Monday and heard a report by Stantec staff on a proposed design for a new community center to go on the HERC site. The design includes a skate park. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Council gets first look at community center plan

Stantec presents first draft of multipurpose community center to go on HERC site.

Mt. Redoubt can be seen across Cook Inlet from Diamond Ridge on the Marathon Ski Trail on Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021, near Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Out of the Office: Falling in love with Diamond Ridge and winter

Since winter lasts from October to May on Diamond Ridge, you’d better love winter.

Don Decker’s exhibit, Thin Ice, showing through February at Bunnell Street Arts Center in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Decker’s ‘Thin Ice’ looks at expanse of Alaska and ground beneath

Artist’s talk includes Decker’s poetry.

Michael Armstrong, seated, in sled, gives his mother, Sylvia Jander, the unique Alaska experience of driving a sled-dog team in February 1989 in Anchorage, Alaska. (Photo by Jenny Stroyeck)

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Fill out the squares of the Alaska Adventure Bingo Card

Moose, bears, sled dogs wolves, whales oh my: Alaska offers many adventures to check off.

From left to right: Anna DeVolld, Rachel Sallaffie, John Green, Carl Schrader and Nona Safra were honored at an awards ceremony in Anchorage on Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021, by Gov. and First Lady Dunleavy. Schrader, a Juneau resident, was honored for his work in hospice care. (Courtesy photo / Office of Gov. Mike Dunleavy)

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Dunleavy appoints peninsula residents to boards, commissions

Volunteer of the Year Safra is appointed to Commission on Aging