Volcano erups again
• Lava dome visible on top of AugustineBy Layton Ehmke and Carey James
Homer Tribune
The world watched online as the Augustine Volcano sputtered, spewed and sent ash 30,000 feet or more into the air. Still, the volcano has been invisible to Homer for the majority of its heightened activity — and scientists say there is more [...]
Living on the edge
• Part I: VolcanoesBy Carey James
Homer Tribune
EDITOR’s NOTE: This is the first in a three-part series looking at the realities of living on the edge of the Ring of Fire — from this week’s international star, Augustine, to earthquakes and even the possibility of a tsunami.
Drive from Soldotna to Homer on a clear day [...]
Committee suggests partial feeding ban
By Carey James
Homer Tribune
When the Homer advisory committee for the Alaska Board of Fish and Game took up the issue of eagle baiting last week, they voted to recommend the practice be stopped — with one exception. The advisory committee amended the proposals suggesting an across-the-board ban of eagle feeding to allow longtime eagle feeder [...]
Voznesenka drinking party busted
Staff report
Alaska State Troopers Ryan Browning and Derek Loop wrangled up some 40 juvenile partiers in Voznesenka last Friday and Saturday nights in an effort to curb heightened partying activity. The troopers confiscated 15 cases of beer and hard alcohol, worth approximately $250. The good thing was that they had some sober drivers there, Browning [...]
Hope tries to increase school enrollment
HOPE (AP) — Townspeople have sent out the call for families with young children to move here. If they don’t do it soon, the Kenai Peninsula Borough School Board could shutter their school because of low enrollment. Fewer than 10 students are currently enrolled. The board could close the school, under state law, if there [...]
FYI
AWG volunteer deadline extendedThe Kenai Peninsula Arctic Winter Games 2006 Host Society announced that the deadline to Jan. 30. Applications are available online at www.awg 2006.org. Volunteers are required to provide general information, which also provides an opportunity to select areas of interest, schedules for availability, comments and questions. More than 1,900 athletes and coaches, [...]
Letters to the Editor
City Councilman wrong againIn his letter to the editor appearing in the Jan. 5 Anchorage Daily News, “Eagle feeding boosts economy, is supported by residents in Homer,” Homer City Councilman Doug Stark stated the Kachemak Bay Conservation Society (KBCS) has refused to adopt a position on the issue of eagle feeding. Councilman Stark does not [...]
Bay View: Information best armor against bird flu
By Larry Slone
Although Mt. St. Augustine’s eruptions are currently riveting our attention with its associated drama in the form of menacing clouds of steam and ash, it wouldn’t cause a major long-term disruption of human life. A greater potential threat, lurking in the distance, is slowly gathering its own head of steam. I’m referring, of [...]
Editorial
Volcanoes, ash clouds, dust masks — oh my
What a week. The Homer Tribune was not only a tad chagrined when its paper came out last week with a front page story stating that scientists didn’t expect an eruption any time soon, while Augustine Volcano rumbled into action in the background. But despite the claims of [...]
Point of View
Bad idea, bad timing, bad processBy Ron and Ann Keffer
This is going to have a big impact on us all. The Homer City Council has passed a resolution that orders a “structuring process” that is to result in turning over 2,000 square feet of space in what was to have been the new Homer Public [...]
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