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“Billiken Point,” acrylic painting by Homer youth artist Leah Dunn, painted in August 2021. Dunn is one of numerous local artists participating in the Ready Set Art fundraiser for Ptarmigan Arts. (Photo provided by Leah Dunn)

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Meet Your Neighbor: ‘Ready, Set, Art’ fundraiser

Artists come together to create art during an evening of fun and fundraising to support young artists

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)

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Meet your neighbor: Red Bird Kitchen

With a love for creating new recipes, mother and daughter have been serving up tasty dishes in and…

John Fenger, seen here in his later years, died in 2006. (Photo courtesy of the Fenger Family Collection)

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Medical establishment comes to Homer — Part 3

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

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)

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Medical establishment comes to Homer — Part 2

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

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 .

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Meet Your Neighbor — Kyle Schneider and the Kenai Peninsula Community Chorus

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

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)

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Medical establishment comes to Homer — Part 1

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

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.

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Bringing art back to life

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

Thea Person 2023, senior portrait by Linda Smogor.

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Meet Your Neighbor: Samantha Cunningham and Thea Person

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

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)

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Meet Your Neighbor: Willow Q. Jones

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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Homer happenings from years past