Key Peninsula News

New PHS Swim Coach Finding the Right Recipe for Success

When you are as busy as new Peninsula High School girls and boys swim coach Athena Petterson, your day job and night job start to blur together. When her team isn’t winning meets, …

Gig Harbor Wins 45th Annual Fish Bowl 21-20

After a seven-year drought, the Tides overcame a 14-0 halftime deficit to win the Fish Bowl for the first time since 2015.

KP Haunts

Local Ghost Hunters Document Paranormal Experiences on YouTube

KP Haunts

Getting Advice From Your Mostly Friendly Local Spirit Guides

KP Haunts

The Key Peninsula is Thriving With the Paranormal

KP Reads

Explore the Hidden Wonders Around Us

Into the Wild

Darkness and Light — The Life and Death of a Whale

KP Gardens

An Episode in Local Garden History from the Everlasting Age of Aquarius

Local News

Two Wauna Women Reach a Landmark: 100 Years of Age

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 …

How to Live to 100 Years Old and Enjoy It All the Way

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 …

Planning for Key Center Path Gets Health Department Funding

Preliminary planning is underway for a roadside path to connect Key Center and the Red Barn Youth Center at the corner of the Key Peninsula Highway and 84th Street NW, a distance of about 500 yards.

KP Fire Department Volunteer Marks 50 Years

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 …

KPFD Assistant Chief and Family Rent Wright-Bliss Fire Station

Key Peninsula Fire District 16 Assistant Chief Chris Beswick moved into Station 45 near the northwest corner of State Route 302 and Wright Bliss Road NW with his wife and daughter Aug. 1 …

Food Backpacks 4 Kids Clothing Giveaway Benefits Hundreds of Families

Hundreds of families descended on the Key Peninsula Civic Center Aug. 25 to 27 to find clothes for the coming school year. At no cost.

Peninsula High School Has New Safety Officer

Brent Campbell, a former police officer and private investigator, comes to PSD from Monroe School District.

Bird Flu Found in Puget Sound Harbor Seals for First Time

The U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed that three adult harbor seals in Puget Sound tested positive for the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 strain Sept. 8. The seals stranded on …

Out & About October 2023

We Live Here

Sad Phoenix

Graphic notes on local life

Peninsula Views

Heart Like a Wheel

It was 1979 or ’80. My dad informed me I would accompany him to a business dinner. I put on my three-piece suit, like his, and he drove us in his 1968 Volvo P1800 bone-white coupe with red leather …

EV Power to the People

My AI Is Smarter Than Your AI

The Osprey of Herron Island

Letters to the Editor

Regarding ‘A Story of Shocking Function — Derek Kilmer Works to Fix Congress’ (August 2023)

For Dr. Sara Thompson regarding her article: Marvelous. It has stuck with me since I first read it in early August. Paragraphs 8, 9 and 10 were an actual epiphany in the concept of “shocking …

Write-in Candidate for Fire Commissioner