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Sterling shares British snack with peninsula

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Sterling shares British snack with peninsula

Bill Howell’s 9 Spice Pickled Onion recipe features sweet Palmer-grown onions, apple cider vinegar and nine top-secret spices…

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5th annual Swank Street Market celebrates boutique, antique and more in Soldotna this weekend

Swank Street Market will be hosting their fifth annual flea market today, Saturday and Sunday in Soldotna.

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About Ben’s boat and clam digging

1971, Homer, Alaska In my “Other Life.” My friend Ben was like a funny big brother…only he was…

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About Ben’s boat and clam digging

1971, Homer, Alaska

Wild chamomile hangs to dry inside the Ionia Community Center on Tuesday, July 3, near Kasilof, Alaska. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)

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Ionia: Born and bound by food

On Tuesday at noon, the lunch bell rings in Ionia, a health-conscious community near Kasilof. Over 50 servings…

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About birthday presents

Around 1986-87, Nikiski, Alaska and Boulder Point homestead “How in the world are you going to haul a…

Wild chamomile hangs to dry inside the Ionia Community Center on Tuesday, July 3, near Kasilof, Alaska. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)

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Ionia: Born and bound by food

On Tuesday at noon, the lunch bell rings in Ionia, a health-conscious community near Kasilof.

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About birthday presents

Around 1986-87, Nikiski, Alaska and Boulder Point homestead

Peninsula chefs are the spotlight of the Chef at the Market series

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Peninsula chefs are the spotlight of the Chef at the Market series

The Chef at the Market series is like being a part of a live cooking show.

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About Kiddie Days and how it got started

North Kenai AKA North Road, Nikiski, Alaska, 1968 to 1975 With great helpful suggestions from Linda Laughridge, Nadine…

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About Kiddie Days and how it got started

North Kenai AKA North Road, Nikiski, Alaska, 1968 to 1975

Chef Maya Wilson inside the Addie Camp train car on Tuesday, June 12, 2018, in Soldotna, Alaska. The 1913 train car is being refurbished as an intimate dining room for Soldotna’ newest restaurant Addie Camp Dining Car eatery and wine bar, which has plans to open this October. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)

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Upcoming Soldotna restaurant chooses ‘Alaska from Scratch’ author as new chef

For Maya Wilson, anything worth doing has been terrifying at first. Her newest endeavor on Whistle Hill is…

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About reminiscing about Bob’s bonfires, cabins and friends

1985 TO 2018 North Nikiski, Alaska A visit this Sunday from our friend John Turnbull triggered some memories…

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About being afraid of big bodies of water and boats

Year: 1969, North Kenai, Alaska, now Nikiski, Alaska Growing up in Northern Colorado and coming to Alaska in…

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Pioneer Potluck: About bears and people

Driving from Anchorage to Nikiski I was “bombing” along in my old green L.T.D., radio blaring, arm out…

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Pioneer Potluck: About getting ready for visitors

Our summer visitors from the “Lower 48” get a peek at our home-style Alaskan living. We are always…

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Pioneer Potluck: You know you’re an Alaskan woman …

Co-authored by daughters, Gail and Susan Brainstorming one day, 20 years ago, Gail and Susan came up with…

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Pioneer Potluck: Bob’s old Ford Escort

1998-99, North Nikiski Bob needed an economical car to go back and forth to work as a carpenter…

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Pioneer Potluck: Rescuing Frack and calling 911

In my other life a long, long time ago (1970s and ealy 80s), I rescued a little kitty…

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What can I do?

In a recent conversation our friend John Turnbull had on the phone with a lady makes me stop…