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Photo by Tressa Dale/Peninsula Clarion These Japanese-style souffle pancakes are sweet, light and delicate, and taste divine paired with tart cranberry sauce.

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Aiming for the clouds

Delicate, fluffy Japanese-style souffle pancakes bring breakfast to a new level

Photo courtesy of the Nutter Family Collection Posing in front of Warren Melville Nutter’s large home in Hope in about 1961 are (L-R): Warren Nutter’s only biological child, David; David’s younger half-brother Frank Gwartney, and Nutter himself. After Nutter died in 1962, his Hope property was split between the two boys.

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Finding Mister Nutter — Part 5

AUTHOR’S NOTE: Warren Melville Nutter spent the final 32 years of his life on the Kenai Peninsula, working…

Emilie Springer/Homer News Pier One Theatre’s “Fiddler on the Roof” cast perform their final bows at the Homer High School Mariner Theatre on Sunday, Oct. 13<ins>,</ins><ins> 2024,</ins> at the end of the first week of performances<ins> in Homer, </ins><ins>Alaska</ins>.

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‘Fiddler’ returns for 2nd weekend at Mariner Theatre

Homer’s “Fiddler on the Roof” production begins the second weekend of shows on Friday, on Oct. 18. The…

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Unhinged Alaska: The Beast

We first noticed what looked to be trouble brewing in the far hinterlands of the Bering Sea while…

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Kelley Piercefield birth

Kelley Marie Piercefield was born on Oct. 7, 2024, at South Peninsula Hospital to parents Rachael Piercefield and…

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Best Bets

What an exciting week it’s been so far! With the election coming closer, there’s plenty of community engagement…

An aerial view of old town Cordova is displayed on the wall of the Pioneers of Alaska Igloo No. 19, established in 1918, during a tour of the Igloo at the Alaska Historical Society Conference in October 2024.  (Emilie Springer/Homer News)

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Annual Alaska Historical Society conference tackles ‘Rights and Responsibilities’

The event was hosted in Cordova

This photo of Warren Melville Nutter, holding a dead juvenile bald eagle that he shot for the bounty, appeared in the May 1938 edition of The Alaska Sportsman Magazine. The photo was probably taken near the mouth of Hidden Creek on Skilak Lake.

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Finding Mister Nutter — Part 4

AUTHOR’S NOTE: After more than two decades serving in the military and teaching in various classrooms, Warren Melville…

Photo by Tressa Dale/Peninsula Clarion This classic chicken salad is bright and tangy.

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Afternoon chicken salad

Armed with a radio and her lotion she would crawl out the upstairs bedroom window to sunbathe on…

Emilie Springer/Homer News Two of Maite Agopian’s hand-crafted wood puppets are displayed at Bunnell Street Arts Gallery on Tuesday. Oct. 8<ins>,</ins><ins> 2024 in Homer, </ins><ins>Alaska</ins>. Agopian is completing an artist’s residency with Bunnell for the month of October.

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Puppeteers bring craft to Homer

Vermont puppeteers collect interviews from Homer residents for a show to be performed in 2025

Emilie Springer/Homer News Homer performers sing and dance in “To Life” from the musical “Fiddler on the Roof” at a dress rehearsal on Oct. 3<ins>, 2024</ins> on the Mariner Stage in Homer<ins>,</ins> <ins>Alaska</ins>.

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Fiddler on the Roof opens on Thursday

Pier One Theatre’s production of “Fiddler on the Roof” opens tonight, Thursday, Oct. 10, at 7 p.m. at…

Nash Macario-Hightide Tapia was born on Monday, Sept. 30, 2024, in Homer, Alaska. Photo provided by JR Tapia

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Nash Tapia birth

Nash Macario-Hightide Tapia was born on Sept. 30, 2024, at South Peninsula Hospital to parents Kieva Smith and…