Kachemak News

"Slovak Girl" was painted by James P. Buncak while he was in Europe. Even with a windchill at 20 below, artist James P. Buncak, unhampered, sets up his oil-based paint for a seat by the heaving ice in Kachemak's Mud Bay.

When Al Greer arrived in Homer in May of 1954, he fulfilled a dream that started back in the 1940s.

In summer, tourists often show up at the Homer Post Office smelling heavily of fish slime to mail their laundry home.

Homer Police last Friday arrested a Dumpster diving thief alleged to have stolen a Colt .45 Model 1911 handgun from a truck parked at the Kachemak Bowl bowling alley and then stashed the gun in the Dumpster.

Last winter, as I planned about what to plant in my garden, I thought about you.

Five members of Boy Scout Troop 555 - Kyle Wentz, Kevin DeVaney, William Jasper, Matthew Jasper and Tyler Wentz - completed requirements to earn their Eagle Scout awards in 2009.

Hoar frost covers a string of colored lights at a Diamond Ridge home. Those smarty-pants scientists are always messing around with our perception of reality.

As school principals, Sharon Trout of Chapman School and Benny Abraham of Paul Banks Elementary School know firsthand the value of early childhood education, as well as the impact when that education doesn't happen.

Seldovia Village Tribe has applied for two U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permits to do dock work in Homer and Seldovia for its new Seldovia Bay Ferry, the Kachemak Voyager.

An early Saturday morning apartment fire displaced a mother and her son and caused the evacuation of an apartment building on West Danview Avenue.

HOMER TRIBUNE/Naomi Klouda - A family enjoys the Share the Spirit spaghetti feed Tuesday at the Homer Elks Lodge.

Projections for the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District indicated a district-wide enrollment of 9,047 for the 2009-2010 school year, but 9,082 students are actually attending classes, according to data provided by the district.

He sold his taxi business, but kept a cab and still works Homer's streets five nights a week.

Fire/EMS The Homer Volunteer Fire Department responded to three fire calls and 11 emergency medical calls the week of Nov.

Districtwide Dec. 18: In-service. Dec. 21-Jan. 1: Vacation. Chapman School Dec. 5: Community Christmas tree lighting, 2 p.m. Dec.

File photo - Fran VanSandt organizes food that will soon be placed in the Kachemak Lions' Thanksgiving Basket.

Immunizations against H1N1, commonly known as swine flu, are being given to students of the Kenai Peninsula Borough Schools District, according to Naomi Walsworth of Homer, the district's health services coordinator.

Less than two weeks after a swell of negative public opinion arose surrounding large pay raises to his chief of staff and special assistant, Kenai Peninsula Borough Mayor Dave Carey attempted to increase two more position's salaries.

As I write this, I'm recovering from what my friend Jan Flora calls "the Kachemak Crud." For the past week I've had a runny nose, a cough, a slight temperature and general body aches.

Curves has moved to a new spot in the Orca Building on Pioneer Avenue - " back up from its old quarters on Lake Street.