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The Homer News, a small print publication based in Cortland County, New York, features photos on the back page of readers who travel with copies of the newspaper. This issue of The Homer News shows Gary Root visiting Homer, Alaska and posing for a photo with the New York paper under the "Homer Alaska, Halibut Fishing Capital of the World" sign at the top of Baycrest Hill. Photo courtesy of Kim L. Hubbard

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Meet ‘The Homer News’

Surprise! Your local newspaper has a third ‘sister’ paper.

These little “cookies” are loaded with nuts and fortified with coconut oil to boost fat and calories.

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A (massive) meal made with love

These banana oatmeal energy bars are loaded with nuts and fortified with coconut oil to boost fat and…

This is the Kenai Power complex. The long side of the plant faces the Frank Rowley home, seen here at the right side of the photograph. (Photo courtesy of the Rowley Family)

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Let there be light: The electrifying Frank Rowley — Part 1

AUTHOR’S NOTE: A similar version of this two-part story concerning the life of Frank Rowley and the ways…

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Homer happenings from years past

Photo by Janet Shook/courtesy Former Homer News Editor-in-chief Michael Armstrong poses for a photograph Oct, 26, 2024, in Wilmington, Vermont.

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Aging Gracefully: Keep playing

A few years after my wife and I moved to Homer, we fell into the local Zimbabwean music…

Mary L. Penney and her son Ronald, circa 1930, probably in New York prior to her move to Florida, where she lived out the final years of her life. (Photo courtesy of the Penney Family Collection)

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Mary Penney and her 1898 Alaska adventure — Part 10

Locals were intrigued by tales of East Coast miners pushing homemade wheelbarrows and pulling heavily laden sledges across…

This version of maeuntang, or Korean fisherman’s stew, features sablefish, daikon, zucchini and green onions with fermented Korean bean and red pepper pastes. (Photo by Tressa Dale/Peninsula Clarion)

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Out with the old fish

Now is the time to empty our freezers of last year’s harvest.

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Homer happenings from years past

Herman Stelter, seen here in front of his home in the Kenai River canyon, was another of the Kings County Mining Company members to stay in Alaska. (U.S. Forest Service photo, circa 1910s)

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Mary Penney and her 1898 Alaska Adventure — Part 9

AUTHOR’S NOTE: After deciding, in the summer of 1899, to truncate her participation in the gold-seeking expedition of…

This sweet and tangy roasted spaghetti squash dish includes a blended tomato and goat cheese sauce. (Photo by Tressa Dale/Peninsula Clarion)

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A list for life’s challenges

Roasted spaghetti squash is blended with a tomato and goat cheese sauce for a sweet and tangy meal.

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Homer happenings from years past

At some point after William B. Hurd was buried in Kenai in 1899, his family asked that his body be exhumed and sent back to New York, where it was reburied. This image, from findagrave.com, shows the marker on his final resting place.

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Mary Penney and her 1898 Alaska adventure — Part 8

Mary L. Penney, like most of the other members of the Kings County Mining Company, was coming home…

This decadent pie is made with rich coconut milk and a pile of sweetened whipped cream. (Photo by Tressa Dale/Peninsula Clarion)

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A send-off rich with love and coconut

Decadent coconut cream pie is made with rich coconut milk, a pile of sweetened whipped cream, and a…