Kachemak News

Hoar frost covers a string of colored lights at a Diamond Ridge home. Those smarty-pants scientists are always messing around with our perception of reality.

As school principals, Sharon Trout of Chapman School and Benny Abraham of Paul Banks Elementary School know firsthand the value of early childhood education, as well as the impact when that education doesn't happen.

Seldovia Village Tribe has applied for two U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permits to do dock work in Homer and Seldovia for its new Seldovia Bay Ferry, the Kachemak Voyager.

An early Saturday morning apartment fire displaced a mother and her son and caused the evacuation of an apartment building on West Danview Avenue.

HOMER TRIBUNE/Naomi Klouda - A family enjoys the Share the Spirit spaghetti feed Tuesday at the Homer Elks Lodge.

Projections for the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District indicated a district-wide enrollment of 9,047 for the 2009-2010 school year, but 9,082 students are actually attending classes, according to data provided by the district.

He sold his taxi business, but kept a cab and still works Homer's streets five nights a week.

Fire/EMS The Homer Volunteer Fire Department responded to three fire calls and 11 emergency medical calls the week of Nov.

Districtwide Dec. 18: In-service. Dec. 21-Jan. 1: Vacation. Chapman School Dec. 5: Community Christmas tree lighting, 2 p.m. Dec.

File photo - Fran VanSandt organizes food that will soon be placed in the Kachemak Lions' Thanksgiving Basket.

Immunizations against H1N1, commonly known as swine flu, are being given to students of the Kenai Peninsula Borough Schools District, according to Naomi Walsworth of Homer, the district's health services coordinator.

Less than two weeks after a swell of negative public opinion arose surrounding large pay raises to his chief of staff and special assistant, Kenai Peninsula Borough Mayor Dave Carey attempted to increase two more position's salaries.

As I write this, I'm recovering from what my friend Jan Flora calls "the Kachemak Crud." For the past week I've had a runny nose, a cough, a slight temperature and general body aches.

Curves has moved to a new spot in the Orca Building on Pioneer Avenue - " back up from its old quarters on Lake Street.

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

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

Russian Old Believer high school students taking next spring's high school qualifying exit exam face a choice of conscience: Do they follow the laws of the state or of their God? For the devoutly religious students attending school in the Old Believer communities of Nikolaevsk, Razdolna, Voznesenka and Kachemak Selo, there is no real choice.

By Sean Pearson Homer Tribune With perimeter security technology and defense system integration already in place around the globe, and military endorsements calling its underground vehicle inspection system the a oemost sophisticated, cutting-edge gating system wea ve ever seen,a Homer-based Kachemak Research Development, Inc.

Homer Volunteer Fire Department responded to 11 emergency medical calls for the week of Sept 21-27. Kachemak Emergency Services Area responded to one fire call and one medical call for the week of Sept.

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