Homer News Archives

One step closer to completing the Lexus and Scholastic EcoChallenge, the recycled fashion show accentuated the "reduce, reuse and recycle" message put forth by Homer's EcoLogical team with some modeling help from the Girl Scouts.

Bearfoot, the band that started as a group of Anchorage bluegrass camp counselors, returns to Homer for one performance at 7 p.m. Nov.

Members of the U.S. Coast Guard ssigned to either the USCGC Hickory or USCGC Roanoke Island have taken the motto "always ready" to heart when it comes to their duty station.

Citizens, relax. There's no need to worry. Everything is fine. Just move along and pay no attention to that man in the hockey mask juggling bloody chainsaws.

Warren Beachy, of Beach Construction, prepares concrete where above-ground fuel tanks will be placed at Petrol Marine's fuel station in Anchor Point.

Advice applies to all creative undertakings: Trust your instincts. Never underestimate yourself.

In a proclamation declaring October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Homer Mayor Pro Tempore Dennis Novak urged citizens "to observe this month by becoming aware of the tragedy of domestic violence." Charges filed in court this month show the range of domestic violence incidents.

Saturday night was the end of a long, long wait for Tom Youngblood of Homer. The waiting must have been worth it, judging by Youngblood's ear-to-ear smile and the $40,440 check tucked under his arm.

Get your paper whites while the supply lasts. I must say that a container of these lovely narcissus blooming in the deepest darkest days of winter are a joy.

Every seven years it seems like Homer goes through the Great Churn. All of a sudden, people who have lived here since Brother Asaiah was on the Homer City Council and held the same job since Jim Hornaday first wielded a gavel as judge, not mayor just up and leave.

Photo by Nina Faust - Lesser Sandhill Cranes are photographed here above Inspiration Ridge Reserve as they gather for fall migration.

Emily Johnson explores such themes as socialism, the environ-ment, relationships and displacement in her dance performances.

The next Homer City Council meeting on Oct. 26 will see one new face and one familiar -- but absent -- face.

Kelly Jackman, center, director of the Homer Boys & Girls Club, mugs it up with members Vince Waddell, left, Jarrett Johnson, right, and Jake Marquardt, bottom.

Have you ever flown across the country and looked down on all the little cities and towns passing below your feet? Traffic flows by on highways, smoke drifts up from chimneys and lights shine from homes as hundreds of million Americans going about their daily lives.

Surrounding a cutout of Homer Simpson are members of Homer High School's DDF team.

On a quick air-taxi ride from Homer to Soldotna, I saw more of the southern Kenai Peninsula than most visitors do in two or three days.

Or, as Howard Beale said back in 1976, 'I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' When the phone rang at 5:30 a.m. on a recent Sunday morning, my wife and I were both sound asleep.

You just can't keep a good bar down. Alice's Champagne Palace, the Homer landmark that even has its own song, reopened last month after a summer hiatus.

This week when we had absolufabulous weather that seemed more like July than October, cynics were heard to say, "This might be the last good day we'll have." Do you ever hear people say that about crummy weather? "Oh, the rain is blowin' sideways and 80-foot waves are crashin' on the Spit.

HOMER TRIBUNE/Sean Pearson - Enstar hopes to tap into Anchor Point natural gas off North Fork.

Serving the Homer area, as well as the state of Alaska for 35 years, Homer-based Maritime Helicopters last week received the Alaska State Chamber of Commerce's "2009 Bill Bivin Small Business of the Year Award." On hand to receive the award were Maritime's owners Don and Mary Ann Fell, as well as Audrey Rearden, the company's chief financial ...

By Aaron Selbig Homer Tribune When Homer voters go to the polls Tuesday to decide the fate of Proposition 1 - " the seasonal levy of a "grocery tax" from Sept.

Homer might be in the shoulder season of tourism this month, but for First Friday local galleries get another chance to show off new work to a critical crowd: the teachers of the Alaska Arts Education Association, in town this weekend for its annual conference at Land's End Resort.

The book business is all abuzz at how fast our former governor cranked out her memoir.

Enstar Natural Gas Co. has reached an agreement to purchase 10 billion cubic feet of gas from a group of independent companies, Anchor Point Energy, working to develop the small North Fork gas field near Anchor Point on the Kenai Peninsula, Enstar spokesman John Sims said Monday.