Emilie Springer

Late Anchor Point artist Norman Lowell is seen in this 2003 photo provided by the Norman Lowell Gallery on Sept. 19, 2024. (Courtesy)

Losing the light

Anchor Point artist Norman Lowell dies at 96

 

Photo provided by Sally Oberstein
Dancers at the Homer Mariner Theater perform in Nice Moves during the Alaska World Arts Festival in 2022.

The Alaska World Arts Festival returns to Homer

The festival will begin Sept. 13 and run through Sept. 26.

 

From left: Sara, Kristen and Jon Faulkner pose with Kristen's two gold medals at the 2024 Olympics in Paris, France. (Photo provided by Jon Faulkner)

From Homer dreams to Olympic gold

Kristen Faulkner shares experiences at Paris Games, Tour de France

 

Rozzi Redmond’s painting “Icy Straits” depicts her experience of sailing to Seward through a particularly rough region of the Inside Passage. Redmond’s show will be on display at Homer Council on the Arts until Sept. 2, 2024. (Emilie Springer/Homer News)

‘A walk through looking glass’

Abstract Alaska landscape art by Rozzi Redmond on display in Homer through Monday

Rozzi Redmond’s painting “Icy Straits” depicts her experience of sailing to Seward through a particularly rough region of the Inside Passage. Redmond’s show will be on display at Homer Council on the Arts until Sept. 2, 2024. (Emilie Springer/Homer News)
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Liam James, Javin Schroeder, Leeann Serio and Mike Selle perform in “Leaving” during last Saturday’s show at Pier One Theatre on the Spit.

Homer playwrights get their 10 minutes onstage

“Slices” 10-minute play festival features local works

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Liam James, Javin Schroeder, Leeann Serio and Mike Selle perform in “Leaving” during last Saturday’s show at Pier One Theatre on the Spit.
Pigs race at the Kenai Peninsula Fair in Ninilchik, Alaska, on Friday, Aug. 11, 2023. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)
Pigs race at the Kenai Peninsula Fair in Ninilchik, Alaska, on Friday, Aug. 11, 2023. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

Kenai Peninsula Fair 2024: Back to the Last Frontier

Some of the highlights this year will include horse rides, hamster balls, pig races, rodeo and competitions

Pigs race at the Kenai Peninsula Fair in Ninilchik, Alaska, on Friday, Aug. 11, 2023. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)
Pigs race at the Kenai Peninsula Fair in Ninilchik, Alaska, on Friday, Aug. 11, 2023. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)
U.S. Coast Guard 17th District - Alaska (Image via news.uscg.mil)

Coast Guard suspends search for 4 passengers of capsized boat

A 28-foot aluminum vessel was reported on Saturday to be taking on water in the Gulf of Alaska 16 miles west of Homer

U.S. Coast Guard 17th District - Alaska (Image via news.uscg.mil)
Kristen Faulkner is pictured in her official Olympic portrait photo. (Photo by Evan Kay with Climb High Productions, provided by Kristen Faulkner)
Kristen Faulkner is pictured in her official Olympic portrait photo. (Photo by Evan Kay with Climb High Productions, provided by Kristen Faulkner)

Faulkner takes Olympic gold in women’s cycling

The athlete is a former Homer resident

Kristen Faulkner is pictured in her official Olympic portrait photo. (Photo by Evan Kay with Climb High Productions, provided by Kristen Faulkner)
Kristen Faulkner is pictured in her official Olympic portrait photo. (Photo by Evan Kay with Climb High Productions, provided by Kristen Faulkner)
Photo by Emilie Springer/Homer News
Homer’s official peony patch is attached to a Nomar tote bag, available for purchase at the Homer Chamber of Commerce, during the month of July.

Homer hosts peony celebration through July

The event started out as a business task force for the beautification of Pioneer Avenue.

Photo by Emilie Springer/Homer News
Homer’s official peony patch is attached to a Nomar tote bag, available for purchase at the Homer Chamber of Commerce, during the month of July.
Kristen Faulkner is pictured in her official Olympic portrait photo. (Photo by Evan Kay with Climb High Productions, provided by Kristen Faulkner)

Homer athlete qualifies for Olympic cycling team

Faulkner said her youth in Alaska contributed to her position with the Olympics now.

Kristen Faulkner is pictured in her official Olympic portrait photo. (Photo by Evan Kay with Climb High Productions, provided by Kristen Faulkner)
U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola, D-Alaska, speaks at the Alaska Democratic Party’s state convention on May 18 at Elizabeth Peratrovich Hall. (Mark Sabbatini / Juneau Empire file photo)
U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola, D-Alaska, speaks at the Alaska Democratic Party’s state convention on May 18 at Elizabeth Peratrovich Hall. (Mark Sabbatini / Juneau Empire file photo)
Homer students pose after their performance from the musical Shrek on Saturday after the three-day Broadway Bootcamp theater workshop with director Jim Anderson in October 2023, in Homer, Alaska. (Emilie Springer/ Homer News)

Intensive Broadway Bootcamp offered in Homer in August

During the five-day bootcamp, youth participants will work with top performing artist educators to develop leadership skills through theater arts.

Homer students pose after their performance from the musical Shrek on Saturday after the three-day Broadway Bootcamp theater workshop with director Jim Anderson in October 2023, in Homer, Alaska. (Emilie Springer/ Homer News)
Kachemak Bay Campus 2024 graduates prepare to enter commencement at the campus on May 8, 2024, in Homer, Alaska. (Emilie Springer/ Homer News)

Kachemak Bay Campus confers degrees to Class of 2024

The commencement was held Wednesday in Pioneer Hall in Homer

Kachemak Bay Campus 2024 graduates prepare to enter commencement at the campus on May 8, 2024, in Homer, Alaska. (Emilie Springer/ Homer News)
Homer High School students who joined schools from around the state in a high school walkout pose near the end of the event, on Thursday, April 4, 2024, in Homer, Alaska. Not all students who attended the event are in the image. (Photo by Emilie Springer/Homer News)

Homer students join statewide student walkout

The event was in response to Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto last month of an education bill passed by the Alaska Legislature

Homer High School students who joined schools from around the state in a high school walkout pose near the end of the event, on Thursday, April 4, 2024, in Homer, Alaska. Not all students who attended the event are in the image. (Photo by Emilie Springer/Homer News)
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Years of Homer ‘Nutcracker’ magic

I am in the back row of “Nutcracker 2023” warmups on the high school stage. My head is by the pre-set elaborate Christmas tree, decorated… Continue reading

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Traffic is backed up on the Homer Spit late Friday afternoon on June 20, 2023, in Homer, Alaska, while Homer Police and Homer Volunteer Fire Department staff respond to a tourist injured when she was hit by a car that veered onto the bike trail. (Photo by Christina Whiting/Special to the Homer News).

Spit crash injures tourist

Arkansas woman suffers major injuries when driver veered into her on the Homer Spit Trail.

Traffic is backed up on the Homer Spit late Friday afternoon on June 20, 2023, in Homer, Alaska, while Homer Police and Homer Volunteer Fire Department staff respond to a tourist injured when she was hit by a car that veered onto the bike trail. (Photo by Christina Whiting/Special to the Homer News).
Homer poet and Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference faculty member Erin Coughlin Hollowell, left, reads a passage that shows words can be understood even when the letters are garbled as 2018 keynote speaker Anthony Doerr watches. Doerr delivered the opening address at the start of the annual conference on June 5, 2018, at Land’s End Resort in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference returns May 13-16

The event will be held at Kachemak Bay Campus with readings at other venues in Homer

Homer poet and Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference faculty member Erin Coughlin Hollowell, left, reads a passage that shows words can be understood even when the letters are garbled as 2018 keynote speaker Anthony Doerr watches. Doerr delivered the opening address at the start of the annual conference on June 5, 2018, at Land’s End Resort in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
Braydon Niebuhr at the Anchor River on Tuesday May 9.  Emilie Springer/ Homer News

Out of the Office: The river no map can show

On Tuesday morning, May 9, sixth grade students in Carly Garay’s Fireweed Academy class are impatiently waiting to begin their end of the year trip… Continue reading

Braydon Niebuhr at the Anchor River on Tuesday May 9.  Emilie Springer/ Homer News
Kenai Peninsula Writers’ Contest logo (Homer Council on the Arts/courtesy)

25th Kenai Peninsula Writers’ Contest winners announced

Winners in all categories were announced March 6

Kenai Peninsula Writers’ Contest logo (Homer Council on the Arts/courtesy)
Peninsula Clarion file photo, 2018
Homer resident Lee John Henry listens during an omnibus hearing Monday, Nov. 21, 2016, in Kenai Superior Court in Kenai, Alaska. Henry was indicted Oct. 20 on murder and robbery charges for the 2013 death of Mark Matthews in Homer.

Homer man pleads guilty in 2013 Boys Town Trail killing

Henry has been awaiting trial since 2016

Peninsula Clarion file photo, 2018
Homer resident Lee John Henry listens during an omnibus hearing Monday, Nov. 21, 2016, in Kenai Superior Court in Kenai, Alaska. Henry was indicted Oct. 20 on murder and robbery charges for the 2013 death of Mark Matthews in Homer.