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If I was indoctrinated into anything during my years of public school, it was the right to a long summer vacation. I remember the countdown to the last day each school year with the …
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Lisa Bryan, Executive Editor
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5/31/23
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Over the last month, I’ve heard from many people questioning whether the Key Peninsula is still the same friendly community it was prior to 2020. It does not feel that way to them.
It’s a big …
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Lisa Bryan, Executive Editor
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3/29/23
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The front page of …
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Lisa Bryan, Executive Editor
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3/1/23
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It looks like 2023, the Year of the Rabbit, is already shaping up to be quite newsy.
On the heels of publishing our 50th Anniversary Edition in January, duly recorded as Volume 50 Number 1, Key …
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Lisa Bryan, Executive Editor
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2/1/23
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This year we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of Key Peninsula News.
Of course, we might not really be 50. Could be 48; maybe 51? We’re celebrating anyway.
The front page of …
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Lisa Bryan, Executive Editor
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12/28/22
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The season to be thankful and generous in spirit is just around the bend. It comes not a moment too soon. It’s finally time to snuggle up inside after a dry summer that lasted longer than any in …
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Lisa Bryan, Executive Editor
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11/1/22
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It has been over a decade now, but I was a latecomer to join the smartphone scene.
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Lisa Bryan, Executive Editor
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9/28/22
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It was an afternoon mid-summer garden party in July. I arrived characteristically late. The acreage was wooded with a nice pasture nestled in a peaceful clearing surrounded by trees. A couple of …
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Lisa Bryan, Executive Editor
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7/27/22
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Crossing over the Purdy Bridge and driving over the spit on the way home is something of a spiritual experience no matter how often we do it. The smell of saltwater, the expansive view of Henderson …
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Lisa Bryan, Executive Editor
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6/1/22
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The season of resilience and spirited hope has returned.
Blankets of green moss adorn the trunks of maples, with big leaves unfurled. Early blossoming fruit trees beckon mason bees to wake before …
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Lisa Bryan, Executive Editor
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3/31/22
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Just when we thought things were beginning to look up yet another “something unexpected” happened. This time it’s the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Did the whole world emerge from Covid …
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Lisa Bryan, Executive Editor
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2/28/22
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Thanksgiving was a day of talking a little too loudly, gesturing a little too broadly and experiencing all the good feelings of true belonging that we’ve missed over the past two years. It …
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Lisa Bryan, Executive Editor
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12/2/21
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My husband's cardiac symptoms took us to the ER. After a now-familiar temperature scan and questions about symptoms and recent travel, we find a seat in a long hallway lined with patients on benches, …
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Lisa Bryan, Executive Editor
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10/28/21
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The banner stretched over Key Center announcing the annual scarecrow contest, along with a fresh crop of scarecrows lining the road, brought a big smile to my face. For an instant I wanted to close …
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Lisa Bryan, Executive Editor
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9/29/21
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A few friends and I go swimming early in the morning in Von Geldern Cove. We’d done it a dozen times already this summer, I was getting acclimated to it and kind of proud of us for continuing a …
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Lisa Bryan, Executive Editor
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9/1/21
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“I wouldn’t think a nonprofit newspaper could print something like this.”
It is a brand-new day when an advertisement appearing in the Key Peninsula News draws so much attention …
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Lisa Bryan, Executive Editor
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8/28/21
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What began March 25, 2020 was unlike anything we have experienced in this country in living memory. The coronavirus pandemic restrictions that went into effect with the first statewide “stay …
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Lisa Bryan, Executive Editor
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6/30/21
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It’s daylight and the towhees are here again. For the last six weeks the pair has shown up every morning outside our bedroom window to perch on the deck railing and sing for breakfast. Mr. and Mrs. make a most handsome couple, but are terrible singers.
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Lisa Bryan, Executive Editor
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5/26/21
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I could hear this morning arrive before opening my eyes. A solo American robin performed his clear, full-throated first call that pierced the dark silence in the seconds before sunrise. A song …
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Lisa Bryan, Executive Editor
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4/28/21
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I spent a number of years as an early morning commuter into the city. Slipping into the stream with all the others in such a regular pattern, I noticed many of the same drivers in the same cars day …
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Lisa Bryan, Executive Editor
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3/31/21
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