Rates soar for HEA customers
• At 21.5 cents per kilowatt hour, HEA customers pay some of the highest rates in the nation By Naomi Klouda
Homer Tribune
People opening their Homer Electric Association bills last week felt some sticker shock, as Homer’s kilowatt hours became some of the highest in the nation at 21.5 cents.The wholesale power [...]
Utility looks to ‘clean’ coal
By Sean Pearson
Homer Tribune
While many south Kenai Peninsula residents are still reeling from the biting sting of Homer Electric Association’s recent rate increase — especially following a particularly frigid cold snap felt around the state — few appeared willing to let the more than 3-percent hike influence their views on HEA’s latest plans to fire [...]
Friends memorialize ‘Eagle Lady’
• Jean Keene’s memory to live on…By Naomi Klouda
Homer Tribune
After singer Jewel Kilcher and writer Tom Boddett, Eagle Lady Jean Keene was Homer’s most famous citizen, said Homer Mayor Jim Hornaday.“She was respected and she will be missed,” Hornaday said at Keene’s memorial service Saturday. A ceremonial eagle-feeding was followed by friends and acquaintances gathering [...]
City council votes to put grocery tax on October ballot
• Council tackles heavy slate at crowded meetingBy Naomi Klouda
Homer Tribune
A utility hike, restoring a grocery tax, feeding eagles and banning plastic bags were all hot button issues at the Homer City Council meeting Monday night. The issues drew dozens to testify at the meeting — and in some cases repeatedly.Mayor Jim Hornaday opened the [...]
Bus drivers, First Student agree on contract
By Jenny Neyman
Redoubt Reporter
School bus drivers and First Student have reached a contract agreement, dissipating fears of an imminent bus driver strike that have circulated since drivers voted to authorize a strike Dec. 1, 2008.Rick Traini, executive director of Teamsters Union 959 in Anchorage, which represents 120 bus drivers on the peninsula, said the membership [...]
Begich names fish expert
Long-time Alaskan and fisheries historian Bob King is heading to Washington, D.C. as Sen. Mark Begich’s point person on fisheries and several other capacities. “My specific job responsibilities include staffing Sen. Begich on his appointment to the Commerce Committee, which includes a number of things that are really important to Alaska, such as fisheries, the [...]
Sailing in the gutter
Five categories were awarded to scouts at the annual Rain Gutter Regatta Boat race in Cub Scouts Pack 555 on Jan. 20. The race is conducted in rain gutters filled with water, in which each boy races his boat. Scouts are issued the basic wooden boat, with each boy shaping and painting his craft.Robert Martin [...]
FYI
Television reception outage scheduledHomer will be without television reception for Channel 2 today and/or Thursday while the KTUU antenna is moved in Ninilchik.
Mount Redoubt rumblingNew seismic activity at Mount Redoubt has increased significantly and may be the prelude to an eruption, "perhaps within hours to days," the Alaska Volcano Observatory reported Sunday.Geologists there upgraded [...]
20 years after Exxon Spill
As I write this, the 20th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill is very much on our minds here at the Prince William Sound Regional Citizens’ Advisory Council. Like many of you, I’ll never forget the morning of March 24, 1989. I woke up to find that North America’s largest oil spill had just [...]
Backward to ‘clean’ coal?
By Sean PearsonEditor
As the rest of the world scrambles furiously to develop new technology for energy generation via everything from solar, wind, biomass, geothermal and hydropower, Alaska once again shows forward thinking and innovation by stepping into the forefront of expertise by ushering in a new era of coal power.Or not.If you’re thinking coal isn’t [...]
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