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Homer’s public radio station, KBBI, provided live music to the city of Homer at the annual Concert on the Lawn on Saturday from noon to 7 p.m. at Karen Hornaday Park. Local performers included Uplift, Jim Maloney and Jon Cottingham, Raised By Humans, Transient Identity, Raised By Humans, Boom Boom Summer, Jon Crocker, Silas Jones, Cosmic Creature Club, KP Brass Band, and Luna &Ursus.
Joseph Hazelwood, the captain of the Exxon Valdez oil tanker that ran aground more than three decades ago in Alaska, causing one of the worst oil spills in U.S. history, has died, the New York Times reported. He was 75.
Hazelwood died in July, reportedly after struggling with COVID-19 and cancer. The 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill was one of the worst in U.S. history.
Joseph Hazelwood, the captain of the Exxon Valdez that grounded on Alaska’s Bligh Reef in 1989, causing one of the nation’s worst oil spills, has died
Joseph Hazelwood, the captain of the Exxon Valdez oil tanker that ran aground more than three decades ago in Alaska, causing one of the worst oil spills in U.S. history, died in July. He was 75.