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Homer’s Cosmic Creature Club performs at the 2024 Concert on the Lawn at Karen Hornaday Park. (Emilie Springer/Homer News file)
July events to provide entertainment and fun on...
By Chloe Pleznac Homer News • June 27, 2025 11:30 am

Events include the Highland Games, Concert on the Lawn, local art camps and the Ninilchik Rodeo.

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Between 1879 and 1892, Stephan Melchior (far left, middle row) performed his mandatory Prussian military service. He was a member of the Eighth Rhineland Infantry Regiment No. 70 in Trier, Germany. (Photo courtesy of the Melchior Family Collection)
Steve Melchior: Treasured peninsula pioneer with a sketchy...
By Clark Fair • June 26, 2025 2:30 am

AUTHOR’S NOTE: Although I could not have written this series without the assistance of numerous individuals, I want to call…

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This cake stacks colored crepes for a brilliant rainbow breakfast. (Photo by Tressa Dale/Peninsula Clarion)
Crepes of a different color
By Tressa Dale • June 26, 2025 2:30 am

This rainbow cake celebrates Pride with layers of colored crepes.

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Years Ago
Years Ago
By Delcenia Cosman Homer News • June 26, 2025 1:30 am

Homer happenings from years past

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“Bibim guksu” or “mixed noodles,” are traditionally served with a thin wheat flour noodle called somyeon (somen). (Photo by Tressa Dale/Peninsula Clarion)
Spicing up summer
By Tressa Dale • June 19, 2025 2:30 am

With my hectic work behind me, I have settled into our summertime routine… or, more accurately, the lack of a…

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Frank Rowley and his youngest child, Raymond, stand in knee-deep snow in front of the protective fence around the main substation for Mountain View Light & Power in Anchorage in 1948 or ’49. This photo was taken a year or two before Rowley moved to Kenai to begin supplying electrical power to the central peninsula. (Photo courtesy of the Rowley Family)
Let there be light: The electrifying Frank Rowley...
By Clark Fair • June 19, 2025 2:30 am

AUTHOR’S NOTE: A similar version of this two-part story concerning the life of Frank Rowley and the ways in which…

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Years Ago
Years Ago
By Delcenia Cosman Homer News • June 19, 2025 1:30 am

Homer happenings from years past

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The Homer News, a small print publication based in Cortland County, New York, features photos on the back page of readers who travel with copies of the newspaper. This issue of The Homer News shows Gary Root visiting Homer, Alaska and posing for a photo with the New York paper under the "Homer Alaska, Halibut Fishing Capital of the World" sign at the top of Baycrest Hill. Photo courtesy of Kim L. Hubbard
Meet ‘The Homer News’
By Delcenia Cosman • June 18, 2025 5:30 pm

Surprise! Your local newspaper has a third ‘sister’ paper.

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These little “cookies” are loaded with nuts and fortified with coconut oil to boost fat and calories.
A (massive) meal made with love
By Tressa Dale • June 12, 2025 2:30 am

These banana oatmeal energy bars are loaded with nuts and fortified with coconut oil to boost fat and calories.

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This is the Kenai Power complex. The long side of the plant faces the Frank Rowley home, seen here at the right side of the photograph. (Photo courtesy of the Rowley Family)
Let there be light: The electrifying Frank Rowley...
By Clark Fair • June 12, 2025 2:30 am

AUTHOR’S NOTE: A similar version of this two-part story concerning the life of Frank Rowley and the ways in which…

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Years Ago
Years Ago
By Delcenia Cosman Homer News • June 12, 2025 1:30 am

Homer happenings from years past

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Photo by Janet Shook/courtesy
Former Homer News Editor-in-chief Michael Armstrong poses for a photograph Oct, 26, 2024, in Wilmington, Vermont.
Aging Gracefully: Keep playing
By Michael Armstrong • June 5, 2025 9:30 am

A few years after my wife and I moved to Homer, we fell into the local Zimbabwean music scene.

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Mary L. Penney and her son Ronald, circa 1930, probably in New York prior to her move to Florida, where she lived out the final years of her life. (Photo courtesy of the Penney Family Collection)
Mary Penney and her 1898 Alaska adventure —...
By Clark Fair • June 5, 2025 8:30 am

Locals were intrigued by tales of East Coast miners pushing homemade wheelbarrows and pulling heavily laden sledges across the mountains.

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