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Clark Fair photo This plaque was created in the 1980s to memorialize persons known to have been buried in Homer Community Cemetery. The plaque was considered necessary because so many of the graves here had lost their markers or had never been marked.

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Homer Community Cemetery: Difficulties in filling a public need (Part 2)

AUTHOR’S NOTE: After many years of making do with an absence of an official local burial ground, some…

This homemade bar of shortbread, caramel and chocolate mimics a brandname candy bar for a luxurious at-home treat. (Photo by Tressa Dale/Peninsula Clarion)

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Candy bar for a millionaire

Make this familiar treat at home for a luxurious dessert

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Homer happenings from years past

Clark Fair photo Homer Community Cemetery was first established in 1928 and has been closed to non-reserved burials since the early 1980s.

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Homer Community Cemetery: Difficulties in filling a public need (Part 1)

Two important events—one strategic, the other tragic—occurred in the Homer area on Sept. 21, 1928. Although they happened…

Photo by Tressa Dale/Peninsula Clarion Fresh ripe peaches are wrapped in a buttery crust in this peach galette recipe.

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Perfect peach galette for a special summer tradition

For one week every summer, my in-laws host all their children and their spouses and all seven grandchildren

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Homer woodworker Ted Heuer in photographed in his shop with rockfish and halibut trivets in 2022. Photo by Beth Heuer

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Local craftsman finds ‘almost no limits’ to woodworking

Homer man shares his passion for turning wood into functional and beautiful works of art

A grazing board, also known as a charcuterie board, is prepared Saturday, July 22, 2023, in Kenai, Alaska. (Photo by Tressa Dale/Peninsula Clarion)

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Grazing board rules

Charcuterie boards are all the rage in the wedding scene right now

Mable Smith pecks away at her typewriter in the Cheechako News office in Ridgeway, circa mid-1960s. (Cheechako News photo)

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Don’t stop the presses

The Mable Smith Story — Part 2

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Homer happenings from years past

Jacqueline Burke is photographed in front of her store Sirens & Sailors on the Homer Spit in the summer of 2022 in Homer, Alaska. Photo provided by Jacqueline Burke

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Meet Your Neighbor: Sirens & Sailors

Homer clothing company provides employment and supports a statewide suicide prevention organization

Cheechako News photo Mable Smith came into her own as a reporter for the Cheechako News (central Kenai Peninsula) in the 1960s and early 1970s.

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Don’t stop the presses

The Mable Smith Story — Part 1

Photo by Tressa Dale/Peninsula Clarion Rhubarb is preserved in jars.

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Capturing the taste of home

Canning preserves local rhubarb’s vibrant flavors