Homer poised to lead global climate change
• Authors see opportunity where others see grim outlookBy Layton Ehmke
Homer Tribune
We leave our computers on at night when we don’t need them. We leave lights in rooms we’re not occupying. We take 30-minute showers and drive five blocks when we could have walked. We are collectively bringing the climate’s clock to a point of [...]
Homer weathers 9 stormy days
• Havoc from high winds means outages, 4th highest year record since 1957By Naomi Klouda
Homer Tribune
The nine-day stint of weepy weather sweeping across the Kenai Peninsula and creating a little Thanksgiving Day chaos for local residents, was actually three separate storms in a system that brought wind gusting to 50 mph and dumped four inches [...]
Memories take flight on the wings of an eagle
By Sean Pearson
Homer Tribune
“Those who wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.”Isaiah 40:31
Leslie Lancaster had a passion for birds. The 48-year-old social worker at Chapman School loved all animals, but held a special [...]
Demand for eco-seafood blooms
by Laine Welch
Green Hot Alaska Pollock Roe by Trident Seafoods is the latest product to merit an eco-label by the international Marine Stewardship Council. The roe item, set to hit supermarket shelves throughout Japan, also marks an amazing milestone — it is the 1,000th seafood item to earn that eco-distinction.Ten years ago the London-based MSC [...]
Lady Blackie sinks near Kodiak
•Coast Guard tracks emergency beacons and lifts crew to safetyBy Layton Ehmke
Homer Tribune
The U.S. Coast Guard pulled three men, a woman and Chihuahua named Tusk out of Shelikof Strait waters near Kodiak early Sunday morning after the Homer-based crabber Lady Blackie sank near the rocky shore.Following two weeks of tempestuous weather, Blackie had been losing [...]
Ridge firehouse designed
By Layton Ehmke
Homer Tribune
The Kenai Peninsula Borough awarded a $145,000 contract to design the new Kachemak Emergency Service Area fire station on Diamond Ridge last week. Kenai Peninsula Borough Mayor John Williams’s right-hand man Tim Navarre said the project has indefinites, since the funding has not yet been procured. The land on which the building [...]
FYI
Rally around the InletThe Cook Inlet Alliance, an organization for the conservation of the waters of Cook Inlet, will hold a rally on Dec. 1 from noon-3 p.m. at the Kachemak Bay Branch of Kenai Peninsula College. The rally is an effort to garner the signatures needed to place two water quality initiatives on the [...]
Exotic hunting gone a-fowl
By Layton Ehmke
Homer Tribune
Don’t ignore that gnawing desire for a juicy game bird — those bright, exotic and population-exploding cluckers are just the ticket to satisfying your poultry fix. Here’s the skinny on bagging a bird this holiday hunting season. Sure, it’s no rats-in-the-Aleutians kind of invasion, but the plethora of pheasants in the Homer [...]
Letters from you
Remember the amendmentsA well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.Sarah Appelhanz
Belated thanks for biking funNow that it is snowing, summer seems a distant memory. But there was one notable event that made it special for the mountain [...]
Create new permanent fund for saving
Michael and Peggy Craig
At the conclusion of the recent special session, our Gov. Sarah Palin asked the Alaskan people to tell her, our state senators and our State Representatives, what we think should be done with the anticipated surplus moneys that will be generated by this new legislation. We believe it is time to not [...]
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