Peninsula High School junior Elektra Higgins finished in thirdplace Nov. 4 at the Washington WIAA 3A Cross Country State Championships at a muddy Sun Willow Golf Course in Pasco.
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EDDIE MACSALKA, KP NEWS
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11/30/23
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Wauna sculptor Mardie Rees' most recent work, a larger-than-life bronze sculpture of St. Anne, was unveiled Nov. 30 at St. Anne Hospital in Burien.
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Sara Thompson, KP News
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11/30/23
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For the uninitiated, cookie exchanges are a real thing, especially around the holidays. Dec. 22 this year is National Cookie Exchange Day, so there is plenty of time to organize.
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Barbara Van Bogart
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11/30/23
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For all our handwringing about the sun and what it is or isn’t doing, it is the moon, lustrous and unsought, that has the power to haunt the mind’s eye.
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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11/30/23
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Graphic notes on local life
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José Alaniz
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11/30/23
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Violence tests us in unexpected ways. It strains our identity when the time comes to defend all those fancy principles we think we hold.
I was already suitably humbled when I heard the …
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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11/2/23
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At age 81, Key Peninsula resident William Michael Paul has just written and starred in his first short film, “Kola.”
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Vicki Biggs, KP News
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11/2/23
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Run it back but with a few tweaks.
That’s how the defending South Sound Conference champion Peninsula Seahawks girls basketball team is looking at the 2023-24 season.
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Eddie Macsalka, KP News
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11/2/23
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The Peninsula Seahawks boys and girls wrestling teams look to start their season building on the success they had at the 2023 WIAA State Wrestling Mat Classic last February.
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Eddie Macsalka, KP News
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11/2/23
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“I’m a Pisces,” said Susan Arends. “I go with the flow.”
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Sara Thompson, KP News
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11/2/23
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It is November. Gullies are soggy. The exact edges of creeks are hard to define. The last leaves are limp yellow rags that drag across my shoulders as I make my way downhill.
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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11/2/23
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My dad hated rice. That and celery. He was a U.S. Navy ensign during the Korean War and spent a month on an ammunition ship getting ferried across the Pacific to meet his destroyer.
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Katrina Herringbottom
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11/2/23
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Here’s the good news for the Peninsula Seahawks boys basketball team: Cole Muilenburg, the team’s 6-foot, 6-inch senior guard who suffered a leg injury during last football season and …
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Eddie Macsalka, KP News
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11/1/23
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Brandon and Alanya Vuysteke are a farming couple who have big plans for their property on the Key Peninsula.
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Vicki Biggs, KP News
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11/1/23
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On May 10, 2016, then Herron Island ferry captain John Farris posted a photo on the islanders’ group on Facebook with a laconic caption, as was his style, even though the announcement could …
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Joseph Pentheroudakis
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9/27/23
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Happy birthday wishes arrived by letter from President Joe and First Lady Jill Biden, as well as from Gov. Jay Inslee and his wife Trudi, with their congratulations. Generations of family and …
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Ed Johnson and Lisa Bryan, KP News
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9/27/23
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The Key Peninsula Volunteer Firefighters Association and Fire District 16 honored its longest-serving member at the Sept. 12 commission meeting, commending Jerry Marsh for 50 years of service …
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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9/27/23
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Within six months of each other two women with deep Wauna connections will reach a rare milestone. Marcelle “Mar” Hoey and Betty Boyd will celebrate their 100th birthdays — Hoey
in …
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Sara Thompson, KP News
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9/27/23
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Dusk, late summer. A deer works the edge of the pasture. A lonely frog, peeping, is answered by a cricket. As the light slips, a bat skitters in and out of the shrinking circle I can see.
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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9/27/23
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The bones look like driftwood from a distance, half-submerged at the high tide line. Binoculars reveal them to be ancient stone artifacts. Or so it seems. This whale carcass is hard to believe.
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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9/27/23
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