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Blunk hopes to get a truckload of adaptive wheelchairs, take them to schools, and give students the experience of playing wheelchair basketball in PE classes.
Retired Paralympian Megan Blunk Returns to the Key Peninsula
Megan Blunk is Paralympic champion, taking home a gold medal in 2016, but her greatest victory is her triumph over a longstanding battle with depression. more
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Alena Tolmacheva, a refugee from Kramatorsk, with one of her five Dobermans.
Local Animal Rescuer Tom Bates Home From Ukraine
Tom Bates returned from three months shuttling supplies to frontline areas and getting abandoned animals out on his third trip to the war. more
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Metal Detectorist Seeks What’s Lost on the Key Peninsula
Ralph Drahos and his wife Arlene swallowed the anchor. That is to say, they gave up the sailing life they enjoyed for most of their lives together in exchange for an existence on dry land. more
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Head Coach Hannah Lekson, seen here in the Feb. 16. game against the Timberline Blazers, has led the Seahawks to the state tournament in both of her first two seasons.
Seahawks Girls Basketball Season Comes to a Close With a 49-39 Loss to Ridgeline
The No. 19-seed Peninsula Seahawks could not overcome a cold night of shooting from the field and the free throw line as they fell to the 14-seed Ridgeline Falcons. more
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PHS state champions at the Tacoma Dome.
Making History: Sonnen, Parker and Seahawks Girls Wrestling Team Win First-Ever State Title
For all those Peninsula High School trivia buffs out there: Who was the first-ever Seahawks girls wrestler to win a state championship? That answer and honor goes to Mira Sonnen. … more
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The Peninsula boys swim team made it to the podium for the first time in 10 years at the state meet.
Seahawks Swim Team Sees Success at State Meet
Peninsula junior Jonah Bergerson (100-yard backstroke) and sophomore Zachary Ruckle (1-meter diving) both took fourth place in their respective events and the Seahawks boys swim team finished in 16th … more
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Coach Hannah Lekson courtside last season.
PHS Girls Basketball Falls to Timberline, 61-50; One More Chance for State Today
The Peninsula girls basketball team lost to the Timberline Blazers, 61-50, in the fifth-place consolation game of the district 3/4 3A Girls Basketball Tournament. more
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Seahawks celebrate after their win.
Seahawks Girls Advance in District Tournament with 42-32 Win Over Mountain View
Kaylia Heidelberg scored a game-high 20 points and the Peninsula Seahawks girls basketball team beat the Mountain View Thunder (Vancouver), 42-32, at home to advance in the District 3/4 Girls … more
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After besting last year's state champion Feb. 10, Peninsula Seahawks Mira Sonnen takes her place at the top.
PHS Wrestling Sends Seven Girls, Four Boys to Mat Classic XXXV
The Peninsula Seahawks boys and girls wrestling teams competed Feb. 10 at the 3A regional tournaments for a chance to earn their way to the WIAA State Wrestling Mat Classic next weekend at the Tacoma … more
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Peninsula's long shot pass against Timberline.
PHS Seahawks Girls Lose First Round Postseason, Play Next Game Next Week
The Peninsula Seahawks girls basketball team lost to the undefeated North Thurston Rams, 76-48, in the first round of the South Sound Conference District 3/4 Girls Basketball Tournament in Lacey. … more
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Seahawks junior Isaac Schultz-Tait sends up a prayer against Central Kitsap Jan. 12.
South Sound Conference Names Its 2023-24 All-SSC Basketball Teams
The South Sound Conference announced the 2023-24 All-SSC girls and boys basketball honorees last month. Peninsula girls senior guard Kaylia Heidelberg and junior Grace Richardson were … more
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Seahawks Girls Secure Third Place in SSC, Beating Gig Harbor, 42-27
The Peninsula Seahawks girls basketball team claimed sole possession of third place in the South Sound Conference with a win over Gig Harbor, 42-27. It was the Seahawks second win over the Tides in less than 48 hours. more
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The main stem of Minter Creek, looking north from under the new SR 302 bridge.
Following the Salmon Under the New Minter Creek Bridge
“This is crazy,” Amy Amos keeps saying as we wade up Little Minter Creek, stepping over logs and bundles of willow branches until we are directly under the Key Peninsula Highway. more
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Seed starting setup. Full spectrum lights on the left, shop lights on the right.
Gotta Collect Them All: Cultivating Seeds to Meet Your Gardening Needs
Not long ago, in a one-window studio apartment under a carport, I made my first attempt at sowing seeds. more
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We Live Here: Madrona Goat
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Longbranch resident Phil DiGirolamo and his wife Michele Gorman enjoy all the pickleball action available close to home.
The Pickleball Craze Infects South End
In the fall of 2022, members of the Longbranch Improvement Club put a bug in Kelly Hettinger’s ear. They wanted to play pickleball. more
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Muilenburgs Prepare For Final Game as a Seahawks Trio
Sean, Cole, and Aiden Muilenberg will suit up for the final time together the PHS boys' basketball season wraps up this month. more
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Ralph Collins (right) with a driver for the Davidson Logging Co., 1940s.
Service Stations of the Key Peninsula
It was the age of the automobile — a machine, as it was called, that demanded frequent feeding and care. One by one auto repair shops and gas stations sprouted along county roads, family busi- … more
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Seahawks senior Daisy Peay (PG) drives to the net last season.
Fish Basket: Tides Girls Take Down Seahawks, 53-51 in OT
Peninsula Seahawks junior Grace Richardson hit a lay-up with no time remaining to send the annual Fish Basket game to overtime, but the Gig Harbor Tides scored five quick points in the extra session … more
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Welcome to Club Clam. Nature night walks reveal an otherwise hidden world.
Nightlife — The Beach at Maple Hollow
It is past midnight. A full moon struggles to cut through the mist that rises from Henderson Bay. The night’s work has just wrapped, and though we are stiff and half-frozen, a little jackknife has the naturalists I’m with in stitches. more
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