Sports Calendar
Friday, Sept. 28 Varsity Volleyball, Peninsula Challenge at HHS, 4 p.m. Swimming at Dimond, TBA Orca Invitational Cross Country Meet at West Homer Elementary, 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 29 Varsity Volleyball, Peninsula Challenge at HHS, 9 a.m. Varsity Football at Skyview, 2 p.m. Cross Country, State Championships at Palmer, TBA Swimming at Bartlett, TBA
Sports Briefs
Discover hockey on SaturdayDiscover Hockey will come to a close Saturday with a hot dog roast sponsored by the Homer Elks Lodge No. 2127. Hot dogs will be available from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., and visitors are encouraged to skate and eat for free. Some gear is available. Crum runs with the big boysHomer [...]
Lady M’s swim past Kodiak Lady Bears
• Team depth again proves effective for Homer swimmersBy Sean Pearson Homer Tribune The Lady Mariner swim team managed to squeeze a few extra points out here on Saturday to squeak by aqua-nemesis Kodiak 130-123 for first place in the Homer Tri Meet.Again, it was the depth of the Homer swimmers that gave them the [...]
Homecoming brings out the 80s in Mariners
• Football squashes Delta 45-21Story and photos by Sean Pearson Homer Tribune For a few brief moments on Saturday, mullets, leg-warmers and “awesome” ‘80s tunes rocked Mariner Stadium as part of Homer High School’s 2007 Homecoming. Prior to the varsity main event, the JV Mariners defeated Kenai’s JV in a long-awaited victory over the Kardinals. [...]
I need a registered trademark®
By Sean Pearson Homer Tribune For those of you who were too focused on the trivial and insignificant problems of the world around you, Monday was National Punctuation Day. ® And since you just couldn’t seem to find any time for the sentence symbols earlier, now seems an opportune time to impart a little aptitude [...]
Voters ponder terms and tax
Regular elections hit the Kenai Peninsula Borough and city of Homer on Tuesday, offering voters the opportunity to once again choose how they want the next few years to go. Operating off the idea that most of us have already made some decisions regarding whom we’d like to see serving on the Homer City Council [...]
Letters
Editor’s Note: It is the Homer Tribune’s policy to not print letters of a political nature the issue before an election. However, the last issue may be used to respond to content in the previous week’s paper as long as it speaks directly to the content and does not bring up any new issues. The [...]
Guts – without the glory
By Laine Welch Cordova signed off its busiest-ever salmon season with a salute to the workers who get all of the guts and little of the glory – the processing workforce.Seafood workers were tasked extra hard this summer to keep pace with a record 63 million pink salmon catch at Prince William Sound, plus two [...]
Candidates offer final thoughts before election on Tuesday
By Layton Ehmke Homer Tribune With the Homer City Council election less than a week away, the Homer Tribune finishes out its question and answer series in an effort to get to know prospective candidates. Two questions remain, and focus on ranking top capital improvement priorities for the city and reasons why candidates are running [...]
FYI
Homer man dies in plane crashFederal Transportation Safety Board officers are looking in the Florida plane crash that killed 74-year-old Bruce Smith, of Homer, on Friday. Smith was killed Friday after he’d lifted off in a 55-year-old Temco GC-1B single-engine plane. He had radioed the control tower to report he was having problems before the [...]
