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Dancers rehearse for the upcoming production of “Alice in Wonderland” at the Homer Art Barn on Saturday<ins>, April 1, 2023</ins>. (Photo by Emilie Springer/Homer News)

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Best Bets

The Betster has been tucked in these past days working on my taxes, my office window open ever…

Covy Owen was born on March 23, 2023 to parents Christopher Owen and Joanna Owen of Homer, Alaska.

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Covy Owen birth

Covy Owen was born on March 23, 2023, at South Peninsula Hospital to parents Christopher Owen and Joanna…

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Jessica Golden rehearses for Friends of the Homer Public Library’s “Our Favorite Poems” event, which takes places Thursday<ins>, April 6</ins> at 6 p.m. at the library.

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Homer writers to present favorite poems in library event

The event is inspired and coordinated by Homer author Jessica Golden

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“Little Experiments” by Oceana Wills, on display at Grace Ridge Brewing.

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Multidisciplinary exhibits on display in April First Friday shows

Spring is in the air, and soon all the snow and mud will be replaced by splashes of…

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Years Ago

Homer happenings from years past

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Cops and Courts

Information about fire, police, and troopers is taken from public records consisting of logbooks and press releases.

As a teen-ager convicted of larceny in 1916, William Dempsey was incarcerated at the Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, Ohio. (Image from the National Register of Historical Places)

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A Nexus of Lives and Lies: The William Dempsey story — Part 3

The lines of history are most accurately understood in retrospect.

White chocolate cranberry cake is served with fresh cranberries. (Photo by Tressa Dale/Peninsula Clarion)

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Hard-to-ruin cranberry cake

This white chocolate cranberry cake is easy to make and hard to ruin — perfect for my students…

Homer High School Concert Choir presented Disney’s “Newsies: The Musical” on March 24 at the Mariner Theater. (Photo by Christina Whiting/Homer News)

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“Don’t like the weather in Alaska? Wait five minutes!” That’s the old joke that pretty accurately describes the…

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Sharlene Cline poses with her students during the final day of her recent art camp at Homer Council on the Arts, on Thursday, March 16. Top row, from left to right: Isabel Piek, Autumn Smith, Eliana Cope, Lila Shavelson.

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Local artist teaches, exhibits Chinese brush painting

Sharlene Cline shares her creativity with community members of all ages through classes, workshops, and exhibits

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Quentin Simeon is photographed in Homer in February 2023.

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Quentin Simeon has stories to tell

He will present the living tradition of contemporary Yup’ik storytelling

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Cops and Courts

Information about fire, police, and troopers is taken from public records consisting of logbooks and press releases.

In 1918, a year before he would be gunned down on the streets of Seward, U.S. Deputy Marshal Isaac Evans posed for this photo on his Port of Seward waterfront pass. (Image courtesy of the Resurrection Bay Historical Society)

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A nexus of lives and lies: The William Dempsey story — Part 2

Anchorage authorities believed Dempsey was planning to sail from Seward and flee to the States