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Anchorage-based quartet Wings to Fly performs at the Seldovia Summer Solstice Music Festival in June 2022 in Seldovia, Alaska. Photo provided by Marguerite McCord

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Seldovia Music Festival celebrates the return of summer

Program will feature live performances, artist-led workshops, open mic events and bonfire jams

Second captain Mike Tozzo, chef Avram Salzman, and captain and owner Rand Seaton pose in front of the “Lady of the Sea” on Thursday, June 1, 2023 in the Homer Harbor in Homer, Alaska. Photo provided by Lauren Seaton

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Meet Your Neighbor: Lady of the Sea Adventures

Local family shares their love of the ocean and Alaska with their new luxury cruise business

Photo #1.628 courtesy of the Seward Community Library Association
Dr. John Baughman’s wife, Mina (left), poses in this circa 1905-10 photo with Mrs. E.E. Hale on a Seward city sidewalk near the Alaska Central Railroad and Seward’s first school.

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Dr. Baughman’s Unusual Second Job, Part 2

Dr. John A. Baughman also filed a lot of paperwork.

Photo by Tressa Dale/Peninsula Clarion
Quinoa Chickpea Kale Salad is packed with filling protein and great nutrition without being too heavy on the stomach.

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Fresh and hearty salad to fuel springtime’s busy days

Quinoa Chickpea Kale Salad can be simply poured into a bowl and eaten without breaking stride

Midnight (male) and Luna (female). Not pictured is their sister, Nova. Photo courtesy of Homer Animal Shelter

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Pet of the Week: Midnight (M), Luna and Nova (F) – 6 years old

Well folks, these lovely felines are in need of a new home, a family that will show them…

Former longtime community member Pat Melone (left), now living in Port Angeles, Washington, visited the Homer Spit on Friday, June 2, 2023 with friends Cheryl McCurdy and Chris Johnson from her new community. Photo by Christina Whiting

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Best Bets

Part of what makes Alaskans Alaskan is our ability to tolerate the weather. While we await the long,…

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Years Ago

Homer happenings from years past

Homer writer Erin Coughlin Hollowell is photographed in 2019. Photo by Joshua Veldstra

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Homer author to debut her third poetry collection

By Christina Whiting

Ken Waldman (Photo courtesy of Ken Waldman)

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Homer welcomes back Alaska’s fiddling poet

Ken Waldman will return to Homer to perform two shows on Saturday, June 10

(Photo from a lantern slide courtesy of Gary Titus
This 1904 Baughman Collection photo shows two hunters—Dr. John Baughman (left, holding girl) and W.H. Case—with four mountain goats they killed near the summit of White Pass and brought back to their home in Skagway later by train.

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Dr. Baughman’s Unusual Second Job, Part One

In the late 1990s, Michael Hankins and two of his pals were treasure hunting near Old Knik when…

Oatmeal raisin cookies to celebrate a one-year anniversay. (Photo by Tressa Dale/Peninsula Clarion)

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Homemade cookies to celebrate a forever home

Homey oatmeal raisin cookies mark one year ‘happily ever after’

Kachemak Nordic Ski Club mobilizing materials this past winter to be used to build trails this summer. (Photo provided by Sandy Cronland)

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Meet Your Neighbor: Homer Trails Alliance

Community members work together to promote, maintain, and develop sustainable trails in the Homer area

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Years Ago

Homer happenings from years past