Council looks at ethics, bluff erosion
By Naomi Klouda
Homer Tribune
The Homer City Council voted down a measure Monday night that would have created a separate Board of Ethics to deal with complaints from the public regarding council issues.Currently, the council hears complaints on ethics when members of the public point out what they feel is a conflict. The measure was introduced [...]
Seaton backs TransCanada gasline
By Naomi Klouda
Homer Tribune
The proposal from the TransCanada Pipeline Company to build a gasline from Prudhoe Bay to Alberta is the right offer for the legislature to accept, said Rep. Paul Seaton.At a town hall meeting June 14 at Homer City Hall, Seaton outlined the plan and the history of the project. Seaton said oil [...]
Kite surfers ride the wind
• Homer’s breeze ideal for ‘wild ride’By Sean Pearson
Homer Tribune
When Traveler Terpening got together with friends and fellow kite surfers Trace Carlos and Tom Fredericks to organize Homer’s first Kite Fest, none of them had any idea what kind of response they would get.“We came up with the idea to bring Alaska kite surfers together,” [...]
Condo project back on table
By Naomi Klouda
Homer Tribune
A proposed 22-unit condo development on Lighthouse Village Drive goes back before the Homer Planning Advisory Commission this month.Planning Commissioner Sharon Minsch asked the commission to reconsider all the information related to a conditional-use permit. Not all of the traffic impact analysis was presented the first time around, she said. The planning [...]
FYI
California man settles on Alaska wildfire(AP) A California man accused of starting a wildfire that blackened 55,000 acres has reached an agreement with the state. The Alaska attorney general’s office has dismissed a misdemeanor charge of uncontrolled spread of fire against 61-year-old Charles Partridge of Santa Maria, Calif.In exchange, his insurance company has agreed to [...]
Letters to the editor
Airing concerns about airstripIt is with great consternation that I have learned of a 6,000-foot airstrip being built in the Diamond Ridge drainage by Charles Tulin. Formerly five-acre parcels that are consistent with area home site acreage has been preliminarily subdivided into 1.25-acre lots with the airstrip running down the common interior boundaries of the [...]
Point of View
Jev Shelton of Juneau is mistaken in claiming that decreased halibut stocks resulted in the area 2C Guideline Harvest Level (GHL) being reduced in 2008. In fact, a change in International Pacific Halibut Commission population modeling drove the reduction in the GHL: using the “closed area” model for total Constant Exploitation Yield that the IPHC [...]
POV
I keep reading the pros and cons of Pebble mine and I have to admit I don’t trust the word of either. “It is good and here is the proof.” “It is bad and here is the proof.”A famous man once said, “If you set out to prove something, you surely will.”So I find myself [...]
Greed to the last drop
With the passage of yet another Monday and still no ruling by Supreme Court Justices in the Exxon Valdez case, many Alaskans are left wondering if this is little more than ominous foreshadowing of even tougher times ahead.Gas prices continue to climb as we pass the summer solstice mark, and Exxon rakes in the cash [...]
Governor comes to Homer
• Palin’s payout plan for energy relief outlines giving Alaskans cashBy Naomi Klouda
Homer Tribune
Gov. Sarah Palin will visit Homer for the first time since being elected governor, appearing Thursday at the Islands and Ocean Visitor Center to sign Rep. Paul Seaton’s bill on public right of way. During her brief visit at 4:30 [...]
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