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Camera? Check. Binoculars and/or scope? Check. Notebook? Check. Festival schedule? Check! The 32nd annual Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival…

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Pet of the Week: Leight

Leight is a young cat with an old soul. She is adventurous, kind, beautiful and gentle. She loves…

Photo courtesy Barnabus Firth, executive director of the Norman Lowell Art Gallery Foundation
Norman Lowell’s 72- by 96-inch painting, “The Sea,” is photographed May 6, 2024, at the Norman Lowell Art Gallery north of Homer. The work was based on sketches from a painting trip to the Aleutian Islands.

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Arts council and Norman Lowell Gallery to host black tie gala fundraiser

Homer Council on the Arts and the Norman Lowell Gallery will host a black tie gala fundraiser May…

"Sandhill Crane," a acrylic on wood painting by Torie Rhyan, was painted in the winter of 2023. Photo provided by Torie Rhyan

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Nature’s color and whimsy

Homer artist expresses her passion for natural beauty through paints and plants

The front of George Coe Dudley’s 1941 draft-registration card bears his signature and shows him as a resident of Anchorage. By the 1950s, he was living on the Kenai Peninsula.

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This parting was not sweet sorrow — Part 1

AUTHOR’S NOTE: A similar version of this story first appeared in the Redoubt Reporter in 2010.

Earl Grey and lavender cupcakes are elegantly decorated. (Photo by Tressa Dale/Peninsula Clarion)

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Cupcakes to celebrate community and connection

These beautiful Earl Grey and lavender cupcakes are elegant and refined

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Unhinged Alaska: Helpful tips for those contemplating a high seas cruise

I recently received a few emails referencing timely tips that I’ve offered over the years concerning ocean cruising.…

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Nineteenth-century teacher and poet Lucy Larcom once wrote, “When April steps aside for May, like diamonds all the…

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Keren Kelley death

Keren Lynn Kelley died suddenly and peacefully at her home with loved ones at her side on March…

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Pet of the Week: Asa

To say we’re surprised that Asa is still here would be an understatement! This brave beauty has been…

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Alaska Comedy Showcase comes to Homer for 3rd show

Sally Oberstein’s Alaska World Arts is bringing the Alaska Comedy Showcase to Homer for an evening show on…