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The Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference is held at Kachemak Bay Campus starting on Saturday, May 18, 2024 in Homer, Alaska. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)

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Writing in a wounded world

2024 Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference grapples with the purpose of writing about wonder in a fractured world

Image via Homer Farmers Market

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Homer Farmers Market opens its 25th season Saturday

The Homer Farmers Market has always prioritized farms and farmers first

Little Family photo courtesy of the Soldotna Historical Society
One of Soldotna’s earliest homesteaders, Ira Little married his “California sweetheart,” Odette Ann Finley, in 1950, and by 1953 they were living full time in Soldotna.

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Bound and Determined: The Smith & Little Story — Part 1

For the better part of a decade on the central Kenai Peninsula, the lives of Ira Little and…

English muffins are surprisingly easy to make and so much better fresh. (Photo by Tressa Dale/Peninsula Clarion)

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Special breakfast for a special day

Eggs Benedict are made even more delicious with homemade English muffins

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A copy of “Drawn from Deep Waters: True Stories from the Kenai Peninsula,” is held on Thursday in Kenai.

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Off the Shelf: Congregation calling

The collection is written by patrons of Kalifonsky Christian Center

Crane Jackinsky as Nurse Kelly; Tyler Munns as Elwood P. Dowd; Dayus Anthony as Wilson; and Mike Tupper as Dr. Sanderson rehears a scene from Harvey on Monday at Pier One Theatre. Photo provided by Val Sheppard.

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Pier One Theatre on the Spit opens 51st season with ‘Harvey’

The Pier One Theatre on the Spit opens their 51st season with a performance of “Harvey” on May…

Ashley Young. Photo courtesy of Bunnell Street Arts Center

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Alaska Indigenous songwriter to perform at Bunnell Street Arts Center

The performance will be broadcast live on KBBI AM 890 Friday on May 17 at 7 p.m.

Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference logo. Photo courtesy of Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference

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McNair scholars to participate in upcoming writers’ conference

The University of Alaska McNair Scholars Program is bringing eight current scholars and two alumni to attend the…

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Cynthia Morelli displays pre-fired pottery at her kiln off of Ohlson Mountain Road in Homer in preparation for the Homer Pottery Tour.

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Homer’s Pottery Tour 2024 to feature 9 potter studios

The 2024 Homer Pottery Tour will take place at nine local potters’ studios on May 18 and 19.…

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Attendees gather to dance and to listen during a performance by Blackwater Railroad Company, part of the Levitt AMP Soldotna Music Series on Wednesday, June 7, 2023, at Soldotna Creek Park in Soldotna, Alaska.

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Soldotna Music Series lineup announced, opens June 5

The music series runs every Wednesday from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

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Pets of the Week: Ash and Cyprus

These two are possibly the cutest kittens around. They love absolutely everyone — kids, cats, dogs, adults. It’s…

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Best Bets

While you don’t have to put away your birding scopes just yet, it is time to dig out…

This Al Hershberger photo of his good friend Hedley Parsons was taken in Germany in 1945, after World War II had ended. Parsons and Hershberger came to Alaska together a few years later, and in 2010, when Parsons was interviewed for this story, he may have been the last person living who had actually attended George Dudley’s messy funeral

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This parting was not sweet sorrow — Part 2

AUTHOR’S NOTE: The funeral 57 years ago for North Kenai’s George Coe Dudley became the stuff of local…