Anchor Point’s Al Poindexter and his family own and operate the Anchor Point Greenhouse and received the recently announced Alaska Department of Natural Resources Alaska Farm Family of the Year award. Emilie Springer spoke with Poindexter about how the family business got started, how it’s changed and how it operates today.

The Homer City Council voted down a special assessment district, postponed funding design work on a trail above Karen Hornaday Park and more at its meeting last night; a University of Hawaii student spent the summer studying why water behaves differently across three Homer watersheds, and one of them helps explain a problem drivers already know well; and the Kenai Peninsula Borough held Industry Appreciation Day last Saturday and awarded Homer’s NOMAR as the Outstanding Commercial Fishing Industry Support Business.