Agencies mum on Chevron violations
After executing searches of Chevron’s Trading Bay Production Facility and Granite Point Tank Farm on the west side of Cook Inlet via Blackhawk helicopters some two weeks ago, officials with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency continue to redirect calls for information regarding the extent and significance of the violations to the Department of Justice. Calls to the Department of Environmental Conservation were met with the same redirection.
Welding accident claims young Homer man’s life
Joey Tholberg loved heavy equipment. The 29-year-old Homer resident was working at the job he loved as an equipment operator and mechanic for East Road Services last Thursday afternoon, when a loader bucket he was welding rolled over onto him.
Remembering Marsha Million: boat captain, bootmaker
Marsha (Million) Hopkins, one of the first water taxi operators in Kachemak Bay, died Friday, Jan. 8 at The Ark of Homer after battling Frontotemporal Dementia and breast cancer.
Marsha’s ashes will be spread later this summer on the waters of Kachemak Bay, where she made her living. A gathering of friends and family will be held at 3 p.m., Feb. 6, at Land’s End.
Laundry, chickens and a post office
In summer, tourists often show up at the Homer Post Office smelling heavily of fish slime to mail their laundry home.
“They would rather mail their laundry home and pack their fish on the flight,” recalled Maryann Lyda, who worked 25 years for the Homer Post Office. For most of it, she was the town’s first home-delivery mail carrier.
Community News – Jan 27
Robert Fimon named Homer Postmaster
Homer Postmaster Robert Fimon has had his eye on Homer for a number of years. So when an opportunity came up to transfer to here when former Postmaster Mike Morris announced his retirement, Fimon jumped at the chance.
“The only hitch,” he explained, “was that we had two weeks to move here, [...]
Police – Jan. 27
Fire/EMS
The Homer Volunteer Fire Department responded to two emergency medical calls and two fire calls the week of Jan. 18 – 25
Kachemak Emergency Services responded to three emergency medical calls the week of Jan. 18-24.
Threats
On Jan. 20, a caller reported receiving threatening phone calls on her cell phone.
Suspicious Circumstances
On Jan. 20, a [...]
For the Record – Jan. 27
Judgment
Aliesha Lynn Ottobre, 21, driving without liability insurance, guilty.
William Oliver, 55, misconduct involving weapons in the fourth degree, guilty.
Russell Armand Harford, 50, driving while license revoked, guilty.
Felony
Jessie Calvin Lewis, 20, theft in the second and third degree.
Misdemeanor
Jessie Calvin Lewis, 20, theft in the third degree, tampering with or damaging a vehicle.
Stephanie Marie Cozadd-Pearson, [...]
Fixing city hall goes to Juneau
The City of Homer still has $1.5 million left over from its failed quest two years ago to gain a new city hall/town center.
In order to use that money for another project, the city must ask the Alaska Legislature to re-appropriate it for another designated project.
FYI – Jan. 27
Borough chief of staff resigns
The beleaguered chief of staff to the mayor of the Kenai Peninsula Borough has resigned. Mayor Dave Carey announced Friday he had accepted the resignation of Hugh Chumley, effective Feb. 19. Chumley was appointed after Carey was elected in October 2008. The chief of staff drew scrutiny from borough assembly [...]
Plan ‘out of touch’ with reality
The most disturbing aspect of City Planner Rick Abboud’s point of view published in the Homer Tribune last week is how out-of-touch it was with local economic conditions.
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