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Sunday’s 21-foot afternoon tide and 50-mile-an-hour winds closed the Homer Spit Road for several hours so that City plows could remove rocks and debris as the water splashed over boulders and onto the road, with hundreds of community members watching from local beaches. This week, crews are moving soil from the City’s dredge pile to replace lost soil at the boardwalks. (Photo by Christina Whiting/Homer News) Collins Construction workers rebuild soil damaged during Sunday’s storm, paid by private businesses on the boardwalk, with material coming from the City dredge pile free of charge, Oct. 11, 2022. (Photo by Christina Whiting/Homer News)

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Best Bets

Holy howling winds and talk about surf’s up! Did you race to a local beach to take in…

Candy pecans make a roadtrip sweet snack. (Photo by Tressa Dale/Peninsula Clarion)

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Sweet treats for the road

Candied pecans accompany more subued wandering

Photo courtesy of the Kenai Historical Society This is how Kenai appeared in about 1919, when Bill Dawson was running a general store in the village.

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Bill Dawson: The Price of Success, Part 2

AUTHOR’S NOTE: Part One introduced William N. “Bill” Dawson as a spinner of yarns who came to the…

William N. (“Bill”) Dawson poses in either Kenai or Kasilof in 1898 with a collection of moose antlers and sheep horns — trophies from kills he had made in the Skilak Lake area. (Photo from J.T. Studley’s 1912 hunting memoir)

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Bill Dawson: The Price of Success, Part 1

Toeing the Line

Photo courtesy of Newspapers.com archive Sisters Alice M. Brooks and Willietta E. Kuppler (both nee Dolan), seen here (center of photo) in a 1943 Los Angeles newspaper article, taught in Kenai from 1911 to 1914 and came to despise Bill Dawson, whom they referred to as “Old Bible Bill.”

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Bill Dawson: The Price of Success, Part 3

“… If I were to designate the meanest character I ever met, I should name ‘Old Bible Bill,’…

Valentine (Photo provided)

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Pet of the Week: Valentine

Valentine is a gentle soul with a heart of gold. She’s an easygoing gal who loves to just…

Sir James Adcox, left, leads Silas Barnes, Manoah Barnes and Nehemiah Barnes through the Literary Haunted House at the Kenai Community Library on Oct. 30, 2019. (Photo by Brian Mazurek/Peninsula Clarion)

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Central peninsula libraries host haunted houses, scary storytimes, seasonal crafts

It’s all about Halloween at Kenai and Soldotna libraries

Photo courtesy of the Kenai Historical Society This is how Kenai appeared in about 1919, when Bill Dawson was running a general store in the village.

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Bill Dawson: The Price of Success, Part 2

William N. “Bill” Dawson was a spinner of yarns who came to the Kenai Peninsula in the 1890s

Nick Varney

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Both the rain and Numnutz gotta go

Normally wintering moose amble through during cold stretches and trim our dormant rows, but not this time

Nick Varney

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Unhinged Alaska: Who knows what lurks within a deck of cards

Chill. Don’t despair.

Town Crier teaser.

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Town Crier

Community organizations and agencies are invited to contact the City Manager’s office by June 30 with requests for…

Town Crier teaser.

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Town Crier

The American Legion Post 16 Auxiliary will sell poppies to wear at Safeway in Homer on Friday, May…

Only months before his death in 1941, Miriam Mathers’ son Charles registered for the military draft.

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Tragedy and triumph of the Goat Woman — Part 3

Her quest for Alaska had begun, but another date with tragedy lay just around the corner