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Homer happenings from years past

Sergeant Dave Shealy runs along the Homer Spit bike path, participating in the Annual Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics on Saturday, May 20.

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This Memorial Day, we honor those who serve in the military and those who lost their lives defending…

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Library, community rec offer summer activities

Homer’s Public Library and Community Recreation kicks off in June with an array of summer opportunities for youth…

Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference keynote speaker Robin Wall Kimmerer gives a presentation on Saturday, May 13, 2023 at Kachemak Bay Campus in Homer, Alaska. Photo by Delcenia Cosman

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‘Stories can be medicine’

Writers’ conference features keynote speaker Robin Wall Kimmerer

This meaty sauce is savory and herbaceous and is well worth the four hours of simmer time. (Photo by Tressa Dale/Peninsula Clarion)

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Mom’s spaghetti

Hearty pasta brings back memories of youth

Ashley Steiner outside her food truck on the Homer Spit in summer 2018. (Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Meet Your Neighbor: The Tickled Pear

Local woman transitions her food truck business to a sit-down restaurant

Photo courtesy Fair Family Collection
The date is Oct. 19, 1957. The place is an airport in Kokomo, Indiana. The occasion is her departure from the Midwest. Her ultimate destination is Whittier, Alaska.

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Jane’s Story

I imagine my mother’s inability at this moment to truly understand the change her life is about to…

Daughter and mother, Emma and Tracy Early, with their earrings and Tracy’s paintings at Art Shop Gallery on May 5, 2023, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Christina Whiting/Homer News)

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Creativity is a family business

Local woman follows her own creative path and nurtures creativity and entrepreneurship in her three young daughters

Signs of summer on the Spit include Coal Town Coffee open, May 10.

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Memorial weekend is just around the corner and while these cooler temperatures might suggest otherwise, right behind it…

After 18 years at Leavenworth prison in Kansas, William Dempsey was returned to McNeil Island federal penitentiary in Washington in April 1939. He would escape from McNeil nine months later. (Photo courtesy of the University of Alaska Fairbanks archives)

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A Nexus of Lives and Lies: The William Dempsey story — Part 9

On Jan. 30, 1940, nearly eight months later, Dempsey, while on a road gang in a heavy fog,…

Lemon juice and powder sugar make the sweet topping for this luscious lemon cake. (Photo by Tressa Dale/Peninsula Clarion)

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Sun shines through summertime lemon cake

I can see green summer just ahead

Seward residents enjoy camping on the Homer Spit in their 1952 Aljoa camper on Saturday, May 6. Photo by Christina Whiting

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From the Shorebird Festival to the Writers’ Conference and the numerous events and activities in between, spring is…

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Homer happenings from years past