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    Anna Wall and Sheryl Vitale, daughter-mother duo behind Red Bird Kitchen, stand in their kitchen on East End Road, photo taken March 13, 2023, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Christina Whiting/Homr News)
    Meet your neighbor: Red Bird Kitchen
    By Christina Whiting For the Homer News • March 16, 2023 2:30 am

    With a love for creating new recipes, mother and daughter have been serving up tasty dishes in and around Homer and Alaska for years

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    John Fenger, seen here in his later years, died in 2006. (Photo courtesy of the Fenger Family Collection)
    Medical establishment comes to Homer — Part 3
    By Clark Fair • March 9, 2023 2:30 am

    In early spring 1965, there were loose ends to tie up …

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    The Fenger children — (left to right) Heidi, Eric and Peter — delight in a bounty of silver salmon gathered by setnet below their home in August 1962. (Photo courtesy of the Fenger Family Collection)
    Medical establishment comes to Homer — Part 2
    By Clark Fair • March 2, 2023 2:30 am

    It was normal for Dr. John Fenger to receive phone calls when someone in Homer needed medical attention.

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    Photo by Christina Whiting/Homer News
Jessica Hahn (left front), Sunrise Sjoberg (right front) and Carolyn Norton rehearse during a weekly community chorus at the Mariner Theater on Feb. 21 .
    Meet Your Neighbor — Kyle Schneider and the...
    By Christina Whiting For Homer News • March 2, 2023 1:30 am

    Homer Choir Director inspires young and old alike to find and share their voice through song

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    Posing stiffly in the bow of the M.S. Hygiene, along the Alaska coast, is Nurse Grace Heutink, clad in a warm fur parka. (Photo courtesy of the Fenger Family Collection)
    Medical establishment comes to Homer — Part 1
    By Clark Fair • February 23, 2023 2:30 am

    In the early days of formal medicine in Homer, doctors and dentists were often forced to improvise.

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    Ann-Margaret Wimmerstedt heats a plywood board for painting with encaustics on July 20, 2018 at Wimmerstedt’s home as artist Carla Klinker-Cope watches.
    Bringing art back to life
    By Christina Whiting • February 23, 2023 1:30 am

    Longtime Homer artist values process over product, shifts from painting to mending

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    Thea Person 2023, senior portrait by Linda Smogor.
    Meet Your Neighbor: Samantha Cunningham and Thea Person
    By Christina Whiting • February 23, 2023 1:30 am

    Award sponsored by Friends of the Homer Public Library honors Lifelong Learner Samantha Cunningham and Youth Learner Thea Person.

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    Willow Q. Jones winds twine on a foot brake to then use to tie a broom, in her home studio in Homer, February 2023. (Photo by Anore Jones/courtesy)
    Meet Your Neighbor: Willow Q. Jones
    By Christina Whiting For Homer News • February 16, 2023 2:30 am

    Meet Your Neighbor is a new feature that introduces, or perhaps re-introduces, you to fellow Homer community members.

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    Homer happenings from years past

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    Homer happenings from years past

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    Sherry and Don Stead, owners of Grace Ridge Brewing, celebrate one year in their new location on Smoky Bay Way, Friday, Feb 3, 2023, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Christina Whiting/Homer News)
    Meet Your Neighbor: Grace Ridge Brewing
    By Christina Whiting For Homer News • February 9, 2023 2:30 am

    The local brewery celebrates one year in new location

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