Council ends eagle-feeding
• In other business, council turns down resolution to close 2 beaches used by CACSBy Naomi Klouda
Homer Tribune
With no fanfare and little oral testimony from the public, the Homer City Council passed an ordinance at Monday’s meeting making it illegal to feed eagles on the Spit or anywhere else in the city.The ordinance goes into [...]
Pebble impacts explored further
By Sean Pearson
Homer Tribune
Though some of the players involved were different, much of the information regarding the feasibility and impacts of the Pebble Mine project on Bristol Bay fisheries and the Native Alaska subsistence lifestyle presented at last week’s community meeting at Islands and Ocean Visitor Center echoed similar concerns raised more than a year [...]
Stimulus spending impacts broad population base
• Legislators let communities know about grants, benefitsBy Naomi Klouda
Homer Tribune
A week after Congress passed the 1,100-page American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, legislators and city governments are still sorting through the $850 million coming to Alaska to figure out where it should be spent.U.S. Sen. Mark Begich, home from Washington D.C., for the week, said [...]
Husky II undergoes Coast Guard clean up
By Naomi Klouda
Homer Tribune
The Husky II in its prime was noted for glory on the Kuskokwim River after piloting an oil barge down from the shores of Bethel, “past the long gray seawall, past the Standard Oil tanks, past the island and the main branch of the Kuskokwim.”A photo in an Alaska Geographic, 1988 Kuskokwim [...]
Who earns the money?
Alaska’s seafood industry puts more people to work than the tourism, forestry, mining and oil/gas industries combined. Unfortunately, most of the money made in the seafood industry continues to flow Outside.While Alaska residents account for nearly two-thirds of the fishermen out on the water, Alaskans make up only about one-third of the seafood processing work [...]
Cubs celebrate Blue and Gold
Cub Scout Pack 555 hosted its Blue and Gold Banquet Friday night at Paul Banks Elementary School, with a theme celebrating Alaska’s 50th Statehood Anniversary. One of the highlights of the event was a cake-making contest. Scouts submitted cakes in one of four categories: Best Alaska theme, Most Patriotic, Most “Not Looking Like a Cake,” [...]
Regulatory Commission hears about Homer’s high electric bills
By Naomi Klouda
Homer Tribune
Homer Mayor Jim Hornaday is asking the Regulatory Commission of Alaska to look into the recent Homer Electric rate increases, which in some cases cost customers 100 percent more than previous monthly bills.Hornaday‘s questions are two fold: is a 100 percent utility rate increase legal? If no warning to customers while raising [...]
FYI
Daugherty wins fuel raffle Kachemak Bay Lions Club of Homer announced the winner of the Fuel Raffle No. 6 is Shari Daugherty, who won a $500 certificate at Petro Marine. The eighth grade Washington, D.C. trip committee raised $2,620 in this raffle, all of which goes to pay for the [...]
Conservation’s goal includes wildlife diversity
By George Matz
An article entitled “Abundance-based Fish, Game Management Can Benefit All,” by Corey Rossi of the Alaska Department of Fish & Game provides an articulate explanation of ADF&G’s current approach to conservation, emphasizing abundant big game harvests. But if conservation means looking at both sides of the equation (utilization vs. preservation), then some factors [...]
Socialism: Fighting over the pace – not the goal
By Mike Heimbuch
It cannot be a surprise that many Americans choke on the word "socialism" as though it was a bite of moldy bread. For 70 years, our schools took great pains to link socialism with the country’s arch enemy – the Soviet Union. Common belief that the collapse of the Soviet Union was due [...]
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