Historic Vaughn Library Hall Restoration Forges Ahead for the Love of History

The Key Peninsula Historical Society was awarded a $35,000 Pierce County Historic Preservation grant Jan. 31 after being ranked No. 1 on the county project list for its ongoing restoration of the …

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The Food Markets at Key Center and Lake Kathryn have been sold to a new owner, and Lake Kathryn may also be getting a new retail tenant. Don Stolz sold the two businesses to The Myers Group, a …

Sometime around Christmas 2021, Evergreen Elementary School second-grader Brayden VanderDoes lost his appetite. Then he began to vomit. Every day. In the coming weeks he lost his energy and …
Longtime KP booster Carolyn Wiley of Longbranch was honored with a Rotary Star Award Feb. 3 at the 11th annual dinner ceremony presented by the local Gig Harbor Rotary Clubs. Each Gig Harbor …
The Key Peninsula Community Council, Key Pen It Clean, Safe Streets and Pierce County will team up to provide access to dumpsters free of charge for KP residents March 18 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. to …
In early December 2016, Washington State Rep. Michelle Caldier (R-26th) was awakened by a crushing pain on the side of her head. She suddenly lost vision in her left eye from acute glaucoma, a …
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Hugh McMillan

Key Peninsula community booster and beloved newspaper columnist Hugh McMillan died Feb. 10. He was 96 years old. Born in New Westminster, British Columbia, in 1926 to Angus and Clara, his family …

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Virginia Anne Ducharme Thompson

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It’s happening again, the thing we all know and dread. There is nothing we can do about it; we just have to get through it. You know what I’m talking about — the long, dreary last …

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After living in the Rosedale area of the Gig Harbor Peninsula since 1968, I moved across Carr Inlet (straight as the crow flies) to Lake Minterwood on the Key Peninsula after the passing of my …

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