Visitors to Homer are welcomed by a sign at the top of Baycrest Hill proclaiming Homer the “halibut fishing capital of the world.”

Is it true?

“There are two thoughts on that: more halibut gets moved across the fish dock or more people come here to sport fish for halibut. I would say both things,” said Homer Harbormaster Bryan Hawkins. “It is the largest port for commercially caught halibut. On the other side of it, the sport-recreational side, Homer is very popular for sportfishing halibut.”

The veto by Gov. Sean Parnell of $10 million to fund a natural gas pipeline from Anchor Point to Homer and Kachemak City isn’t the end of hope for the pipeline. Certainly not if Phil Morris, mayor of Kachemak City, has anything to say about it.

With the words of Theodore Roosevelt under one arm and the lyrics of a song written specifically for them under the other, Ninilchik School’s 2011 graduates bid their high school years good-bye at commencement exercises Wednesday, May 25.

Reminding them of the importance of continuing their education, the class chose for their motto, “A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad.” The advice comes from Theodore Roosevelt Jr., the 26th president of the United States.

In his shop just off the Sterling Highway and a few miles south of Ninilchik, Lonnie Lambert is hard at work. Around him, towering aluminum dip-net frames stand as sentries, guarding Lambert’s design of an “inter ring system.”

As of May 3, Lambert has a more formidable safeguard: a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Department of Commerce.