Seldovia News

Unclogged sidewalks, glacier tour cancellations and reservation-free dining in downtown Anchorage were some of the signs of a souring tourism season this year.

An Anchor Point family credits smoke detectors with saving their lives in an early morning fire that destroyed their cabin off the Sterling Highway.

Ryjil Christianson, Pratt Museum's director of education, holds a rock specimen from the chromite mine that is in the museum's collection.

Tamba Hadzi, Homer's only all-woman African marimba band, practices behind the Homer Council on the Arts last Thursday.

If you want to see the best of Scottish Gaelic music, you could go all the way to Scotland, of course.

There we were Memorial Day weekend, my husband and I, sitting in this long line of traffic, waiting to cross the Ninilchik River bridge.

The final version of the Kenai Peninsula Borough budget for 2009-2010 remains under review, and these numbers for projected revenue may change.

How did a paleontologist, a writer/environmental activist, a softwear designer and a geologist end up running a jewelry business? Well, it all started, as these things so often do, with fire.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Officer Kristin Worman tags a baby sea otter found dead on the Homer Spit late Sunday night.

If you're a busy physician's assistant based in Homer, working part-time in Seldovia and you're renting out your house on Bishop's Beach, where do you stay when you're on the Homer side of Kachemak Bay? Boat owner Sue Christiansen has found a perfect solution for her occasional nights in Homer: the Sheldabue.

Under his own steam, Seldovia fisherman Higgy Higman and his canine companion begin their search for a winning fish in the Seldovia Human Powered Fishing Derby last weekend.

Some people see a log and that's all they see. Others -- like the six chainsaw carvers in Seldovia's fourth annual Craft Invitational Chainsaw Carving Competition -- see a log and envision an eagle, a whale, a siren breaking free from the ocean's depths or just about anything the imagination is capable of conjuring up.

Stanley and Nikki Welles stand outside their building at 265 Pioneer on Homer's main street before their historic home.

First and foremost -- before the hot dogs, the fishing, the three-day weekend -- Monday is Memorial Day, a day set aside to remember the sacrifice of United States men and women who gave their lives while serving in the military.

The Homer-based nonprofit Cook Inletkeeper saw their coffers -- as well as their workload -- grow quite a bit April 17 when they were awarded three grants worth a total of $140,406 by the Alaska Department of Conservation.

CANADIAN DAREDEVIL CRIPPLED IN ANCHORAGE STUNT HAS NEW GOAL : Ken Kell, who in 2002 nearly killed himself in a base-jumping stunt off the Mackay Building in downtown Anchorage, wants to celebrate his long recovery and test his health on a two-year circumnavigation of Earth in a 48-foot yacht.

PUBLIC NOTICE Monday May 18, 2009 7:00 pm Seldovia Planning Commission Meeting The Public is encouraged to attend.

It sounds like it might be right out of a Henry David Thoreau novel, but Alaska's Sadie Cove Wilderness Lodge has literally carved quite a niche for itself.

While Flex High School students were scratching and altering 16mm stock in Michael Walsh's artist-in-the-school residency this spring, younger students in the Quest program made film the new-fangled way: with digital cameras and computer editing.

"That government is best which governs least," Henry David Thoreau wrote in "On Civil Disobedience." The man from Walden Pond probably wasn't thinking about the 2009 Alaska Legislature, but if he happened to time trip ahead 160 years, he'd probably give the Lege a big "yee-haw" for its fine governance.