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    By Delcenia Cosman Homer News • May 15, 2025 1:30 am

    Homer happenings from years past

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    The Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference is held at Kachemak Bay Campus starting on Saturday, May 18, 2024, in Homer, Alaska. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)
    Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference returns for 23rd year
    By Chloe Pleznac Homer News • May 13, 2025 11:30 am

    This year’s keynote presenter is author Ruth Ozeki.

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    This salad mixes broccoli, carrots and pineapple chunks for a bright, sweet dish. (Photo by Tressa Dale/Peninsula Clarion)
    A bright and sweet Mother’s Day treat
    By Tressa Dale • May 8, 2025 2:30 am

    Broccoli, pineapple and carrots are the heart of this flavorful salad.

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    U.S. Army Captain Edwin F. Glenn led an 1898 military exploration of Cook Inlet. Glenn and his crew, who were departing the inlet at about the same time that the Kings County Mining Company was arriving, left behind a journal of the expedition. That journal, archived in the Alaska Digital Archives, included daily notations about the weather.
    Mary Penney and her 1898 Alaska adventure —...
    By Clark Fair • May 8, 2025 2:30 am

    On Oct. 9, it was clear all day, and the expedition steamed easily across the inlet to Homer.

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    Years Ago
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    By Delcenia Cosman Homer News • May 8, 2025 1:30 am

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    Attendees listen to another person share their thoughts on community-building at the Homer Public Library on Tuesday, April 29. (Chloe Pleznac/Homer News)
    Finding hope in Homer
    By Chloe Pleznac Homer News • May 7, 2025 12:30 pm

    A community-building conversation was held on April 29.

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    San Francisco Bay and Vicinity map, circa 1900, from the Encyclopedia Brittanica’s online page.
    Mary Penney and her 1898 Alaska Adventure —...
    By Clark Fair • May 1, 2025 2:30 am

    AUTHOR’S NOTE: Brooklynite Mary L. Penney and the rest of the Kings County Mining Company had departed New York in…

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    These sweet, stuffed pancakes, called hotteok, are found in Korea, and they make a perfect after-school snack. (Photo by Tressa Dale/Peninsula Clarion)
    Sweet bread to help savor the moments
    By Tressa Dale • May 1, 2025 2:30 am

    If this stage of his childhood can so quickly become a memory, how fast will the rest of it fly by?

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    Years Ago
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    By Delcenia Cosman Homer News • May 1, 2025 1:30 am

    Homer happenings from years past

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    Former Homer News Editor-in-chief Michael Armstrong poses for a photograph Oct, 26, 2024, in Wilmington, Vermont. (Photo by Janet Shook/courtesy)
    Aging Gracefully: Retirement: Is that all there is?
    By Michael Armstrong • April 24, 2025 2:30 am

    It might seem counterintuitive, but I’ve come to realize the trick to enjoying retirement turns out to be doing what…

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    This Library of Congress photo shows the U.S.S. Maine, which exploded and sank in the harbor at Havanna, Cuba, about the same time the Kings County Mining Company’s ship, the Agate left Brooklyn for Alaska. The Maine incident prompted the start of the Spanish-American War and complicated the mining company’s attempt to sail around Cape Horn.
    Mary Penney and Her 1898 Alaska adventure —...
    By Clark Fair • April 24, 2025 2:30 am

    AUTHOR’S NOTE: Mary L. Penney and a group of other gold-seeking stockholders in the Kings County Mining Company of Brooklyn,…

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    These pinto beans and rice only take about 10 minutes of hands-on work before they are stewed for about 12 hours in a cooking pot. (Photo by Tressa Dale/Peninsula Clarion)
    A complete meal for when you’re pinching pennies
    By Tressa Dale • April 24, 2025 2:30 am

    My mother always kept a large tub of rice and beans, provisions she called “struggle food.”

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    By Delcenia Cosman Homer News • April 24, 2025 1:30 am

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