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The poster for the Alaska World Arts Festival.

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Alaska World Arts Festival kicks off next weekend

The event will celebrate of all types of art, in many venues and performances space in the community

Photos by Emilie Springer/ Homer News
“Pier 1.0: Staging Reality” cast perform on the Pier One Theatre stage on Saturday in Homer.

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Local musical takes on reality

“Pier 1.0: Staging Reality” celebrates Pier One Theatre’s 50th birthday

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Longtime Ninilchik restaurant now on the market

Rosco’s Pizza, a Ninilchik community fixture, will be changing hands in the near future

Homer Pratt Museum's new director Patty Relay on Aug. 21 in the museum.  Emilie Springer/ Homer News

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‘A museum is an identity’

New Pratt director on creating community

[1a—] After doing business in the Kenai Commercial Company store, Rusty Lancashire climbs into family station wagon, with its sagging back bumper, to head for home. (1954 photo by Bob and Ira Spring for Better Homes & Garden magazine)

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The Lancashires: Evolving lives on the evolving Kenai — Part 1

In the summer of 1948, while Soldotna homesteader Howard Lee was helping Ridgeway homesteader Larry Lancashire build a…

"Kerlingarfjoll, Iceland," a photograph by Jason Kim depicting the Highlands of Iceland in 2017 with geothermal hotsprings meeting snowcapped mountains, is part of Kim's "Road to Homer" exhibit on display at Homer Council on the Arts through August. Photo provided by Jason Kim

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A long and winding ‘Road to Homer’

Photographer showcases the five-year journey to Alaska

Image via Homer Farmers Market

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Plan and prepare for the Farmers Market Zucchini Festival

I was hanging out at the Homer Farmers Market with a guest of mine when I happened to…

Honeyberry pie is made with freshly picked fruit from local orchard. (Photo by Tressa Dale/Peninsula Clarion)

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The spoils of summer

Honeyberry pie is made with freshly picked fruit from local orchard

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Years Ago

Homer happenings from years past

Midnight, six-year-old male. Photo courtesy of Homer Animal Shelter

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Pet of the Week: Midnight

This beautiful boy is such a gentle soul. Midnight is a bit reserved in the beginning, but opens…

Families enjoy playing at Bishop's Beach during a -1.1 tide on Friday, Aug. 18, 2023 in Homer, Alaska. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)

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Best Bets

September is coming close around the corner, but that doesn’t mean Homer is slowing down yet! With the…

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This plaque was created in the 1980s to memorialize persons known to have been buried in Homer Community Cemetery. The plaque was considered necessary because so many of the graves here had lost their markers or had never been marked.

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Homer Community Cemetery: Difficulties in filling a public need (Part 2)

AUTHOR’S NOTE: After many years of making do with an absence of an official local burial ground, some…

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Seeing art in underwater worlds

Marcelle McDannel’s underwater photography is now on display at Ptarmigan Arts