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Homer community member Laura McBridge manages the Homer Community Fridge located outside the Homer United Methodist Church, May 17, 2023, in Homer, Alaska.

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Meet Your Neighbor: Homer Community Fridge

The Homer community fridge provides meals to anyone in need, thanks to community donations and volunteer efforts

The simple yet versatile crepe can be served savory or sweet, such as this banana, powdered sugar and chocolate creation. (Photo by Tressa Dale/Peninsula Clarion)

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Savory, sweet and everything in between

Simple yet versatile crepes can be outfitted for every taste

An adult male mountain goat with GPS radio collar shortly after release. (Photo by Dom Watts/FWS)

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Refuge Notebook: Studies investigate mountain goat movements, habitats

By DOM WATTS

Nick Varney

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Reeling ‘Em In: Hey! We’re back!

We’ve been monitoring various catches being brought in lately and things are starting to look up

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Homer happenings from years past

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

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

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Homer happenings from years past