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Homer happenings from years past

This meaty sauce is savory and herbaceous and is well worth the four hours of simmer time. (Photo by Tressa Dale/Peninsula Clarion)

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Mom’s spaghetti

Hearty pasta brings back memories of youth

Ashley Steiner outside her food truck on the Homer Spit in summer 2018. (Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Meet Your Neighbor: The Tickled Pear

Local woman transitions her food truck business to a sit-down restaurant

Photo courtesy Fair Family Collection The date is Oct. 19, 1957. The place is an airport in Kokomo, Indiana. The occasion is her departure from the Midwest. Her ultimate destination is Whittier, Alaska.

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Jane’s Story

I imagine my mother’s inability at this moment to truly understand the change her life is about to…

Daughter and mother, Emma and Tracy Early, with their earrings and Tracy’s paintings at Art Shop Gallery on May 5, 2023, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Christina Whiting/Homer News)

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Creativity is a family business

Local woman follows her own creative path and nurtures creativity and entrepreneurship in her three young daughters

After 18 years at Leavenworth prison in Kansas, William Dempsey was returned to McNeil Island federal penitentiary in Washington in April 1939. He would escape from McNeil nine months later. (Photo courtesy of the University of Alaska Fairbanks archives)

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A Nexus of Lives and Lies: The William Dempsey story — Part 9

On Jan. 30, 1940, nearly eight months later, Dempsey, while on a road gang in a heavy fog,…

Lemon juice and powder sugar make the sweet topping for this luscious lemon cake. (Photo by Tressa Dale/Peninsula Clarion)

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Sun shines through summertime lemon cake

I can see green summer just ahead

Years Ago

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Years Ago

Homer happenings from years past

Community members participate in the 2022 Halibut Hustle on the Homer Spit, an annual event hosted by Kachemak Bay Running Club in Homer, Alaska. Photo provided by Kachemak Bay Running Club

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Meet Your Neighbor: Kachemak Bay Running Club

Local running club promotes physical activity for health, wellness, and connection

Years Ago

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Years Ago

Homer happenings from years past

This meat lasagna includes layers of sausage, ricotta, bechamel and spinach. (Photo by Tressa Dale/Peninsula Clarion)

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Lasagna you can eat all week

Crockpot meals always miss the mark, and there’s only so many times I’m willing to feed my family…

Kachemak Bay Birders Sea Duck survey group head to Sadie Cove, March 2023. Photo by Joey Hausler/courtesy)

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Meet your neighbor: Kachemak Bay Birders

Local group birds for fun and to help ensure bird and habitat protection

Photo courtesy of the University of Alaska Fairbanks archives Murder suspect William Dempsey is pictured shortly after he was captured on the outskirts of Seward in early September 1919.

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A Nexus of Lives and Lies: The William Dempsey story — Part 8

Dempsey spent more than a decade attempting to persuade a judge to recommend him for executive clemency