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Minister’s Message: The ‘Unholidays’

“This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.” Mark 7:6

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Minister’s Message: Yet, I will rejoice!

“When you look at the world, what is it that you see? People find all kinds of things,…

Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference attendees fill the room in Kachemak Bay Campus's Pioneer Hall during the opening panel on Saturday, May 18, 2024 in Homer, Alaska. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)

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Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference announces 2026 keynote speaker, faculty list

The keynote speaker for the 2026 conference will be poet and essayist, Jane Hirshfield.

A man holds an American flag at a vigil for Charlie Kirk on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025 at Mariner Park on the Homer Spit in Homer, Alaska. (Chloe Pleznac/Homer News)

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Homer holds vigil for Charlie Kirk; highlights opening of local Turning Point Education private school

The vigil was organized in part by District 6 Rep. Sarah Vance.

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Unhinged Alaska: A quick insight into moose

It seems that my style insults some of the intelligentsia who author odes to tree moss and/or are…

The author's puppy, Ruthie, is seen in this undated photo. (Photo courtesy Meredith Harber)

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Minister’s Message: Prayer for peace

People are hurting — deep in our bones hurting.

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Minister’s Message: Coasting

Winning at work but losing at home is still losing.

Virginia Walters (Courtesy photo)

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Life in the Pedestrian Lane: September song

Summer is winding down.

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Minister’s Message: Seeing the invisible

Jesus is on the lookout for those who walk through life unnoticed.

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Minister’s Message: The Lord’s spiritual treasures are available to us all

The Bible says the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hid in Christ.

Having a ready team of work dogs made longer trips out of Seward more manageable for Steve Melchior. The woman accompanying him on the wagon is unidentified. (Photo courtesy of the Melchior Family Collection)

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Steve Melchior: Treasured peninsula pioneer with a sketchy past — Part 7

Stephan “Steve” Melchior parleyed a partially fabricated past into a respected life as a miner and a builder…

Virginia Walters (Courtesy photo)

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Life in the Pedestrian Lane: One brick at a time

I am from that “once upon a time” when no one swore in public.

A group of friends hikes along the Resurrection Pass Trail on June 26, 2020 in Cooper Landing, Alaska. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

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Minister’s Message: A heart set on the journey

What step will you take this week toward God on your journey of faith?

Fireweed is seen on a hillside in Homer, Alaska, on Sept. 26, 2025. (Photo by Erin Thompson/Peninsula Clarion file)

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Minister’s Message: Seasons on the Kenai

Just as there are seasons on the Kenai, there are seasons of life.

Steve Melchior in his Seward yard with two of his many dogs, probably circa mid-1920s. (Photo courtesy of the Melchior Family Collection)

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Steve Melchior: Treasured peninsula pioneer with a sketchy past — Part 6

This moose-and-man journey attracted considerable attention nationwide.

Freshly caught fish lay at the author’s feet. (Photo by Meredith Harber/courtesy)

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Minister’s Message: Fishing together

We, despite our differences, are one human population, attempting to make life each day.

A vintage KBBI mug, repurposed and filled with various office supplies, rests in the Homer News office window on Friday, Aug. 8, 2025. (Chloe Pleznac/Homer News)

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KBBI seeks art submissions for annual membership mugs

The mugs will be released in October, as an incentive for the fall membership drive.

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Minister’s Message: ‘Bed rotting’

There’s not much worse than sleeping your life away.

Posing in front of Steve Melchior’s cabin on the Killey River in 1912 are (left) packer/cook Ferdinand “Fritz” Posth and hunting guide William “Wild Bill” Dewitt, with two trophy Dall sheep heads. (Photo from E. Marshall Scull’s 1914 hunting memoir, “Hunting in the Arctic and Alaska”)

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Steve Melchior: Treasured peninsula pioneer with a sketchy past — Part 4

Steve Melchior seemed to disappear, perhaps on purpose.

A small placard provides context and the traditional, indigenous names of a Kenai Birch tree in the Pratt Museum Botanical Garden on Friday, July 25. The Kenai Birch is a hybrid species only present on the Kenai Peninsula. (Chloe Pleznac/Homer News)

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Out of the office and under the trees

Throughout this summer, the Pratt has offered guided tours centered on the “science and spirit of the forest.”