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History comes home

By Jacob Dye • September 28, 2023 1:30 am

Historical conference to bring statewide community to central Kenai Peninsula

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Lillian Petershoare speaks into a microphone during a Walter Soboleff Day presentation in the Walter Soboleff Building Monday afternoon. She was joined by members of the Kuneix Hidí Northern Light United Church’s Native Ministries Committee Barbara Searls, Maxine Richert and Myra Munson to talk about an overture developed by in 2021, which analyzed and openly outlined the injustices and racially charged motives that led to the closure of Soboleff’s church by the Presbyterian Church.

Walter Soboleff Day marked with pledge of action

By Clarise Larson • November 14, 2022 2:30 am

Church leaders share details about planned apology for church closure

Tom Kizzia poses with a stack of his book, “Cold Mountain Path,” on Sept. 1, 2021. (Photo provided)

Homer author named historian of the year

By Jacob Dye • October 21, 2022 1:30 am

Kizzia has a long history in the state

Tlingit master carver Wayne Price, left, and students from Angoon High School wheel a dugout canoe down to the Angoon waterfront on Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021, for a ceremony commemorating the bombardment of the village by the U.S. Navy in 1882. Dugout canoes were specifically targeted by the navy for destruction, and Price said crafting a new one was a way of healing from the past. (Peter Segall / Juneau Empire)

Remembering and rebuilding: Angoon residents commemorate 139 years...

By Peter Segall • November 3, 2021 5:30 am

‘We’re still here.”

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Then Now: Looking back on pandemic response

By Dana Zigmund • October 20, 2021 6:30 am

Comparing messaging from 1918 to 2021

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