Three charged in string of burglaries
A rash of burglaries in the Anchor Point area over a two-month period this spring led to three men being charged on multiple felony counts, one involving a theft at the North Fork home of a deceased person.
Nathan Sargeant III, 21, Ross A. Poindexter, 21 and Henry V. Mischler, 20, were each charged with four counts of first-degree burglary, four counts of theft and three counts of third-degree criminal mischief Aug. 19.
Turning down the lights
The Bunnell Street Gallery operates in the Inlet Trading Post, Homer’s oldest commercial building. Its classic western-style dates from the no-nonsense building designs of the Depression Era, constructed in 1936 from a Sears & Roebuck shipment that arrived via steamship.
Stand-up paddlesurfing: the ‘wave’ of the future?
Anymore, spotting a number of wet-suited surfers riding ice-encrusted waves off the Homer Spit is fairly commonplace. After a few hours, they often head back to shore, exhausted, wearing ice crystals for eyebrows. But storm swells that bring surfable waves don’t really show up in the Homer area until mid October.
Murkowski concedes election to Miller
District 35’s voting results favored Joe Miller over incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski by just under 200 votes or 1,223 to 1,056, counting it among the Interior and Mat-Su Valley voters who gave Miller the edge at the close of election day.
With about 9,000 outstanding ballots by the end of Tuesday remaining to be counted, that race is too close to call. Some 2,300 were estimated to be from the Kenai Peninsula, with only about 500 of those counted so far.
Miller bests Murkowski in District 35
The message of the Tea Party Express won over many voters’ minds on the Kenai Peninsula, showing up in District 35’s voting results as favoring Joe Miller over incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski by just under 200 votes or 1,223 to 1,056.
A tight count statewide means that race is too close to call. Statewide, the two hang by 45,909 Miller votes to 43,949 for Murkowski, with nine more precinct ballots needing to be counted. Miller, a Fairbanks attorney, led from when the first returns came in Tuesday night.
Pilot praised for saving lives
A flight-seeing tour went awry Thursday forcing a Homer pilot to make an emergency landing on a nearby glacier.
At 2:08 p.m, a Homer Flight Service pilot reported that a Homer Air Cessna 206 was attempting an emergency landing on Grewingk Glacier, and crashed after the engine stalled. Homer Flight Services dispatched Maritime Helicopters with two EMT’s from Homer to the location of the Cessna, said Alaska Department of Public Safety Information Officer Megan Peters.
Long journey, short road
When the state fixed a 6-mile segment of the Pile Bay Road outside Iliamna last summer for $6.2 million, they built pullouts to take some of the pressure off its limitations as a one-way gravel road.
The newly built turnouts allow a northbound truck to pull over if a southbound one comes along, as well as providing spots for emergency pullovers.
Already considered dangerous for its narrowness, the transportation route through lush green wilderness and lavender mountains is made a further hazard by boats, equipment and vehicles parked in some of the only pullouts available along the 15.5 mile road.
Matti’s Farm brings ‘sparkling energy’ to the fair
Despite the ominous clouds drifting through Ninilchik over the weekend, an air of excitement and energy coursed through the Kenai Peninsula State Fair as kids bearing “passports” navigated through a series of farm “stations.”
They all wanted to be part of Matti’s Farm.
The son of Blair and Ronna Martin of Diamond M Ranch in Kenai, Matthias Martin died at the fair last year when a cow he had tied himself to spooked and bolted, dragging him across the fairgrounds. The Martin family — a three-generation Alaska family with roots that run deep in agriculture and animal care — decided to turn the tragedy into something positive.
ENSTAR cautions city on gasline
• Unknown variables may crop up
By Naomi Klouda
Homer Tribune
HOMER TRIBUNE/Naomi Klouda – Juanita Cox, long-time volunteer in Homer, was honored by a proclamation from Mayor Jim Hornaday declaring Aug. 29 Juanita Cox Day. It is also her 90th birthday.
Getting a gasline to Homer carries a lot of unknowns right now, but officials encouraged the [...]
Plane makes emergency landing on glacier
A flight-seeing tour went awry Thursday afternoon on one of the first afternoons of sun following a long rainy patch, forcing a Homer pilot to make an emergency landing on a nearby glacier.
At 2:08 p.m, a Homer Flight Service pilot reported that a Homer Air Cessna 206 was attempting an emergency landing on Grewingk Glacier, [...]
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