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Pioneer Potluck: The big move to Alaska

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Pioneer Potluck: The big move to Alaska

Mexican chicken stew, Italian chicken, Spoon puddin’ with apples

Grannie Annie: A story about bread

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Grannie Annie: A story about bread

1969

Pioneer Potluck: About living at Daniels Lake

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Pioneer Potluck: About living at Daniels Lake

1969

Ann “Grannie Annie” Berg

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Pioneer Potluck: About words we used and fun sayings!

I grew up with all kinds of fun sayings.

Shop Talk: Fresh365 provides fresh greens

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Shop Talk: Fresh365 provides fresh greens

Fresh365, a hydroponic farm atop Whistle Hill in Soldotna, is looking to innovate how farmers and restaurateurs do…

Ann “Grannie Annie” Berg

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Pioneer Potluck: Ready for winter — Canning, freezing garden’s bounty

This is the time of year in Alaska that we put things away that we drug out of…

Pioneer Potluck: Memories of Costco

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Pioneer Potluck: Memories of Costco

The State Of Alaska sends residents who have lived here for one year a check that was at…

Pioneer Potluck: In celebration of my little brother Jim McClure’s 71st birthday

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Pioneer Potluck: In celebration of my little brother Jim McClure’s 71st birthday

By Ann “Grannie Annie” Berg

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Pioneer Potluck: Eggless, milkless, butterless cake

Eggless, milkless, butterless cake

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Pioneer Potluck: About memories of Grandpa and Grandma Cogswell

Grandma Freda Cogswell was my mother’s Mom. She was born in 1895 and died in 1976. Her birthday…

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Pioneer Potluck: About your very first day at school

I was five years old when I started school, no pre-kindergarten, no kindergarten, no preschool. (And that was…

Dan Bilyeu of Northern Lights Mushrooms sells oyster mushrooms and a large variety of peppers, including scotch bonnets, jalapenos, poblanos and more at the Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2018 Farmers Fresh Market at the Kenai Peninsula Food Bank, near Soldotna, Alaska. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)

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Produce is plentiful as farmers market season is wrapping up

Despite the unexpected sunny August weather, summer is wrapping up, which means only a few more opportunities to…

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About Dad’s hat and Sunday school

1940-50’s on a farm east of Fort Collins, Colorado

Joe Spady stands in front of his food truck, Joe’s Meatball Shoppe, on Sunday, Aug. 26, 2018, in Soldotna, Alaska. Spady rents his truck through Kenai Soil and Water Conservation District, who offers the converted trailer for people interested in a test kitchen and small business development, with a focus on Alaska grown products. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)

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Food on the go: Trucks help local chefs make restaurants a reality

The peninsula food scene Joe Spady grew up with is much different than the food scene in the…

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About our visitors to Alaska

Fishing, camping, traveling, visitors and mosquitos — you are truly an Alaskan if you smell like mosquito repellent…

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About the Swanson River Fire of 1969

About garage sales, wonderful people and glitches:

Mandy Leslie of Anchorage beers with her brother Zack Leslie of Kenai on Saturday, Aug. 9, 2018, at the Kenai Peninsula Beer Festival at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex. Mandy Leslie said her favorite beer was the 12 quadruple beer from the 49th State Brewing Company, which won as the people’s choice for top beer. More than 15 breweries from all around the state participated in the festival, a fundraiser for the Rotary Club of Soldotna with benefits going to local Rotary projects. (Photo by Dan Balmer/Peninsula Clarion)

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Soldotna to host eighth-annual Kenai Peninsula Beer Festival this Saturday

The eighth-annual Kenai Peninsula Beer Festival will celebrate community and locally crafted brewing this Saturday.

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About airplanes and flying in Alaska

Year – 1967

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About Ben’s boat wreck at Big Lake

Year: 1972 — Big Lake, Alaska

Bill, Beers and blogging: Alaska craft brewing blog turns 10

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Bill, Beers and blogging: Alaska craft brewing blog turns 10

In 2004, when beer aficionado Bill Howell retired from the U.S. Navy and settled in Alaska, the brewery…