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		<title>Casseri says his Mariners are just getting warmed up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago, Homer High School Basketball Coach Mark Casseri had his abbreviated Mariner Varsity team adventuring in Nome, hiking the tundra in subzero temperatures.
“We all had a great time,” Casseri said. “It was a great way for our older players to do a little bonding.”
Certainly it was a trip they will remember for many years to come.
Last weekend, Casseri took his young men to the Valley to face the Colony Knights and Palmer Moose. And while the outcome wasn’t particularly favorable — Homer lost both games and had a long, cold bus ride home — the weekend wasn’t all bad.]]></description>
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		<title>Mariners deal Kards surprising blow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Homer Mariner hockey team grabbed a little revenge on Saturday, edging long-time nemesis Kenai at home 2-1. Homer goalie Alex Sanarov picked up the win, stopping 29 of 30 Kardinal shots on goal.  
With no scoring by either team by the end of the first period, a series of collective groans sounded from the Homer crowd as Kenai found the back of the net with 5:06 left in the second period.
This time, however, the M’s were quick to strike back. With 2:04 remaining in the second period, sophomore Nikit Matveev scored on an assist from freshman Kiril Sanarov to tie the game.]]></description>
		<link>http://homertribune.com/2012/02/mariners-deal-kards-surprising-blow/</link>
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		<title>Sports Briefs &#8211; Feb. 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lady M’s second at Colony The Homer Mariner cross country ski team competed in the Colony Invitational  on Friday, with the Lady Mariner squad finishing second overall. Homer’s Marie Schmidt made a strong showing with a third-place finish, while the Mariner men’s team finished seventh, feeling the absence of upperclassmen Andre Lovett and Parker Sorenson, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://homertribune.com/2012/02/sports-briefs-feb-1/</link>
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		<title>First Friday tackles cabin fever</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Winter Moon Metals Fireweed Gallery presents “Winter Moon Metals,” hand-wrought  jewelry by Homer’s Mary Huff of Salty Girls. Mary hammers and etches sterling silver and copper metals and combines them with the moody bluesy gemstones of labradorite, moonstone and aquamarine. She then takes it a step further and mixes in the natural materials of wood, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://homertribune.com/2012/02/first-friday-tackles-cabin-fever/</link>
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		<title>Focus on Schools Part 2: Tech ed for 21st century workforce</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Student Katlain Nelson agrees to let her teacher project a piece of writing onto a screen for a writing subject review.
Her hands are the favorite part of herself, she wrote. “They help me when I am working the hay fields. They help me when I move bales of hay into perfect pods.” 
Her hands write stories, and her hands wipe tears.
In Emily Putney’s fifth grade class at West Homer, students are reviewing a writing assignment for lessons in transitions and “voice.”
They do this in a seemingly old fashioned way, helped along by the latest in projection technology. The teachers have a “document camera,”  a device that sits on a flat surface with a camera mounted to it. The teacher places a piece of paper (or an object) in the view of the camera that she wants to show the whole class. The camera sends the image to the projector mounted to the ceiling. ]]></description>
		<link>http://homertribune.com/2012/02/tech-ed-for-21st-century-workforce/</link>
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		<title>Smyth takes Tusty 200</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If Big Lake musher Cim Smyth was an animal, he would undeniably be cheetah, as Jeff King found out the hard way after leading more than half the 2012 Tustumena 200 Sled Dog Race only to be brought down like an antelope just miles from the finish line.
“I had an eight-minute lead over him leaving Homer and I thought it might not be enough,” King said at the finish line Sunday, crossing it seven minutes later than first-place finisher Smyth. “Both Smyths are known to be hard finishers. (Cim’s brother, Ramey, won the T200 in 1998, 1999 and 2002.) They’re remarkable.”
Smyth — Cim, that is — is no stranger to being in the T200 winner’s circle, having won the race twice before this year, in 2004 and 2009. Smyth also is no stranger to coming on strong at the end of a race, as he is a four-time recipient of the Iditarod’s award for having the fastest time from Safety to Nome.]]></description>
		<link>http://homertribune.com/2012/02/smyth-takes-tusty-200/</link>
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		<title>The good, the bad and the ugly of a Homer winter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The good, the bad and the ugly reality of harsh winters like this one mingle in a picture full of contradictions: There’s a mini boom in snow removal and retail sales for local retailers. Snow plowers and haulers are in high demand. Cod fishermen unable to get to their fishing grounds are out of luck. And a hemmed in harbor clogged with ice spells hard times for smaller vessels.
Skip Perk, owner of Skip’s Trucking, said this year’s total hauls of snow are three times what he had last January.  He’s hauled snow on more consecutive days in 2012 than in any previous year since 1987. The private contractor is called out to work with City of Homer Public Works crews on snowplowing around the clock.]]></description>
		<link>http://homertribune.com/2012/02/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-of-a-homer-winter/</link>
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		<title>Homer Library readers can now try out a Kindle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[E-readers remain a mystery to book loyalists, yet are touted for a variety of features individuals may want to discover for themselves - without risking the investment. Now they can try out an e-reading device free through the Homer Public Library.
Friends of the Homer Library purchased six new Kindle Touch electronic books and six new MPG Players for $3,500, equipment now available for cardholders. 
The Kindle  comes already downloaded with about 30 titles including: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, “Kidnapped,” “Frankenstein” in its origination by Mary  Shelley, “Leaves of Grass,” Dickens’ titles, the Complete Works of Shakespeare. ]]></description>
		<link>http://homertribune.com/2012/02/homer-library-readers-can-now-try-out-a-kindle/</link>
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		<title>FYI News briefs &amp; announcements &#8211; Feb. 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Celebrate at the Winter Carnival Watch for a schedule of events compiled by the Homer Chamber of Commerce to celebrate the Homer Winter Carnival Feb. 9-11. There will be a noon parade down Pioneer Avenue on Saturday, Feb. 11, car races on Beluga Lake after the parade and on Sunday. NOMAR and Kachemak Gear Shed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://homertribune.com/2012/02/fyi-news-briefs-announcements-feb-1/</link>
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		<title>Community news &#8211; Feb. 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Trowbridge appointed director of CACS The Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies, a nonprofit Homer organization that inspires the stewardship of natural environments for future generations, announces the appointment of Beth Trowbridge as the new executive director.  In 2000, Trowbridge, who has a minor in Native studies and a secondary teaching certification, began working as a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://homertribune.com/2012/02/community-news-feb-1/</link>
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