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Bistro Concert

Upcoming Handley High School 100th anniversary events, more

Foster families needed for kittens

Foster families needed for kittens

“Don’t like the weather in Alaska? Wait five minutes!” That’s the old joke that pretty accurately describes the last couple of weeks here in Homer. It’s spring. No, winter. No, spring. No, winter. Have no fear, the Betster is here to reassure you that warmer weather and longer daylight hours are on their way, and with them the return of the sandhill cranes, opportunities for fiddlehead and stinging nettle foraging, and dusting off your gardening tools. In the meanti...

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Artists come together to create art during an evening of fun and fundraising to support young artists

This community fridge encourages anyone to donate what they would eat and take what they need.

In the two and a half years that Anesha “Duffy” Murnane was missing, community members near and far surrounded her family with love and support in so many ways — providing meals, participating in searches, vigils and memorial walks, sending cards, hosting flyers, banners, donation jars and community presentations, planting blue flowers, and wearing blue ribbons in her honor. Thank you all.