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Jessica Hahn (left front), Sunrise Sjoberg (right front) and Carolyn Norton rehearse during a weekly community chorus at the Mariner Theater on Feb. 21 .

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Meet Your Neighbor — Kyle Schneider and the Kenai Peninsula Community Chorus

Homer Choir Director inspires young and old alike to find and share their voice through song

Posing stiffly in the bow of the M.S. Hygiene, along the Alaska coast, is Nurse Grace Heutink, clad in a warm fur parka. (Photo courtesy of the Fenger Family Collection)

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Medical establishment comes to Homer — Part 1

In the early days of formal medicine in Homer, doctors and dentists were often forced to improvise.

Ann-Margaret Wimmerstedt heats a plywood board for painting with encaustics on July 20, 2018 at Wimmerstedt’s home as artist Carla Klinker-Cope watches.

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Bringing art back to life

Longtime Homer artist values process over product, shifts from painting to mending

Thea Person 2023, senior portrait by Linda Smogor.

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Meet Your Neighbor: Samantha Cunningham and Thea Person

Award sponsored by Friends of the Homer Public Library honors Lifelong Learner Samantha Cunningham and Youth Learner Thea…

Willow Q. Jones winds twine on a foot brake to then use to tie a broom, in her home studio in Homer, February 2023. (Photo by Anore Jones/courtesy)

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Meet Your Neighbor: Willow Q. Jones

Meet Your Neighbor is a new feature that introduces, or perhaps re-introduces, you to fellow Homer community members.

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Homer happenings from years past

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Homer happenings from years past

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Homer happenings from years past

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Homer happenings from years past

Sherry and Don Stead, owners of Grace Ridge Brewing, celebrate one year in their new location on Smoky Bay Way, Friday, Feb 3, 2023, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Christina Whiting/Homer News)

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Meet Your Neighbor: Grace Ridge Brewing

The local brewery celebrates one year in new location

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Shells and cheese are served. (Photo by Tressa Dale/Peninsula Clarion)

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On the strawberry patch: Mac and cheese for make-believe

Indulging childhood memories with this favorite

After William Dempsey escaped from the federal penitentiary on McNeil Island, Wash., in 1940, this informational reward poster was issued by the prison warden.

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A nexus of lives and lies: The William Dempsey story — Part 1

William Dempsey and two other men slipped away from the rest of the prison road gang on fog-enshrouded…