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Community members participate in the 2022 Halibut Hustle on the Homer Spit, an annual event hosted by Kachemak Bay Running Club in Homer, Alaska. Photo provided by Kachemak Bay Running Club

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Meet Your Neighbor: Kachemak Bay Running Club

Local running club promotes physical activity for health, wellness, and connection

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Homer happenings from years past

This meat lasagna includes layers of sausage, ricotta, bechamel and spinach. (Photo by Tressa Dale/Peninsula Clarion)

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Lasagna you can eat all week

Crockpot meals always miss the mark, and there’s only so many times I’m willing to feed my family…

Kachemak Bay Birders Sea Duck survey group head to Sadie Cove, March 2023. Photo by Joey Hausler/courtesy)

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Meet your neighbor: Kachemak Bay Birders

Local group birds for fun and to help ensure bird and habitat protection

Photo courtesy of the University of Alaska Fairbanks archives Murder suspect William Dempsey is pictured shortly after he was captured on the outskirts of Seward in early September 1919.

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A Nexus of Lives and Lies: The William Dempsey story — Part 8

Dempsey spent more than a decade attempting to persuade a judge to recommend him for executive clemency

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North African Shakshuka is a rich and vibrant dish and great way to use up eggs. (Photo by Tressa Dale/Peninsula Clarion)

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Bringing some chaos to the kitchen

North African Shakshuka is a rich and vibrant way to use up some eggs

Photo courtesy of the University of Alaska Fairbanks archives After Pres. Woodrow Wilson commuted his death sentence to life in prison, William Dempsey (inmate #3572) was delivered from Alaska to the federal penitentiary on McNeil Island, Wash. These were his intake photos.

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A Nexus of Lives and Lies: The William Dempsey Story—Part Seven

AUTHOR’S NOTE: William Dempsey killed two Alaskans in 1919 and was sent to prison in 1920 for his…

Photo provided by Robert Tarnowske Former owner, J.J. Carroll, pictured in the 1980s, when Sunny’s Service was a Chevron gas station.

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Meet your Neighbor: Sunny’s Service

Longtime Homer business closes after 66 years

In 1914, Pres. Woodrow Wilson appointed Charles Bunnell to be the judge of the Federal District Court for the Third and Fourth divisions of the Alaska Territory. (Photo courtesy of the University of Alaska Fairbanks archives)

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A Nexus of Lives and Lies: The William Dempsey story — Part 6

Prosecution lawyers were fortunate to have a fallback plan: witnesses to the crime.

Tressa Dale / Peninsula Clarion Hollandaise sauce is served on poached eggs.

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Hollandaise, 2nd time makes perfect

Notoriously finicky sauce can stump even practiced cooks

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Dharmic Spruce owner Branden Elded performs a Get Glowing spa facial treatment on a customer in April <ins>2023 in Homer, Alaska</ins>.

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Meet Your Neighbor: Dharmic Spruce Studio & Spa

Homer woman creates community space for wellness and well being