Key Peninsula News

Wauna Artist Mardie Rees Unveils Bronze Sculpture

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.

Into the Wild

Moon Snails, Moon Jellies, Moon Wobble, and More

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.

KP Cooks

The Great Holiday Cookie Swap Draws Near

KP Reads

'Bible and Sword'

KP Gardens

Dig Into Design: How Else Will You Garden All Winter?

Local News

Higgins Places Third, PHS Girls 13th at XC State Championships

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.

Key Pen Parks to Purchase Old Lavender Farm for Almost $1 Million

The Key Pen Park Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to authorize Executive Director Tracey Perkosky to execute a conditional purchase and sale to acquire property located at 10613-19 Wright Bliss Road NW.

YMCA Camp Seymour Purchases Neighboring McColley Property

A new chapter has begun for an old farmhouse at the head of Glen Cove.

Local Election Results: Kelly is New Fire Commissioner, All Incumbents Returned

Key Peninsula voters elected John Pat Kelly to the board of fire commissioners and returned three incumbents to office in an off-year election Nov. 7. …

Key Peninsula Middle School Faces the Future

On the morning of Nov. 13, Principal Luke Grunberg and Joy Giovanini, coordinator of innovation technology and highly capable students, welcomed visitors to the KPMS Artificial Intelligence information event.

Local Alumnus Blake Cohoe Makes Good on Middle School Goal

On Jan. 26, 2011, Blake Cohoe said these words: “I am enrolling in the ROTC program and then joining the Air Force."

Key Peninsula Fire District 16 Unveils 2024 Budget

The Key Peninsula board of fire commissioners unanimously voted to approve its 2024 budget for the KP fire district Nov. 14, calling for projected expenditures of some $13.9 million. It’s an 8% …

Making Spirits Bright for Feral Felines of the Key Peninsula

Whether you are the “Here kitty, kitty, kitty” Kris Kringle-type, or a “Shoo cat” Scrooge, local experts say there are many ways to lend a helping paw to the feral felines …

KGHP May Be Looking for a New Home Outside PSD

The KGHP studio on the campus of Peninsula High School is mostly dark these days. The station’s “On the Air” light brightens up the lonely hallways a few times a week …

Creating ‘Elena’ — KP House Builder Turns Boat Designer

It started a year ago. Or maybe it started 60 years ago, when John Carlson, 75, built his first boat. Or maybe it was just 40 years ago when John and his wife Helen bought their 28-foot Herreshoff …

Out & About December 2023

Here's What I Think About That

All Thanks to You

I cannot tell you how many times I’ve sat down to write, only to stare at an empty screen with a blinking cursor before me and realize I have nothing nice to say. The whole world is in turmoil. …

Peninsula Views

All That Brings Joy

It was the early 1990s in Azusa, California, where I was in college. It was December, it was finals week, and, needing to blow off stress, we went Christmas caroling. We hopped into a …

Clams Inspire Pollution-free Cement

Metaphor: A Virgin Field Pregnant with Possibilities

All I Want for Christmas is Krampus

We Live Here

Lady Krampus

Graphic notes on local life

Letters to the Editor

Thank you KPFD

I would like to thank the Key Peninsula Fire Department and Peninsula Light Co. crews for responding quickly to my calls Nov. 11 during a storm with wind gusts …

Obituaries

Virginia Bryant

Michael Reeves