Tom Bates may sit quietly at his Lakebay dining room table, but his phone pings every few minutes.
“I get about 45 messages a day,” he said. “Right now, there’s an owl …
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10/30/24
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The KP fire commissioners and fire chief held a special board meeting to address real estate buys and the upcoming levy.
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10/2/24
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KP READS: "Death and the Maiden" is a tense psychological drama that explores the themes of justice, trauma, and revenge.
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10/2/24
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Kelly Chambers is hoping to extend her experience in the legislature to the county level.
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10/2/24
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Pierce County Council Chair Ryan Mello is running to replace Bruce Dammeier as the Pierce County Executive.
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10/2/24
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Nathan Betts received the county’s Law Enforcement Deputy of the Year award in a ceremony in University Place Aug. 7.
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8/28/24
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Five candidates for Congress described their experiences and plans while answering questions at a Key Peninsula Civic Center forum June 28 before a crowd of about 150.
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7/18/24
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A record-breaking 189 seniors received 422 separate scholarships totaling $434,500 awarded by the Hawks Scholarship Fund at its annual ceremony May 22 at Peninsula High School.
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5/29/24
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Tom Bates of Lakebay is headed back to Ukraine for three more months of moving food and supplies to people near the front and evacuating injured or abandoned animals.
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5/1/24
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The Children’s Home Society of Washington-Key Peninsula Family Resource Center said it will vacate its office at the KP Civic Center after more than 30 years on the KP.
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5/1/24
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The great travel writer Jonathan Raban survived a stroke while sitting at his Seattle dinner table one evening with his 18-year-old daughter, Julia.
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5/1/24
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It’s that time of the year again. While tax rates are lower on the Key Peninsula, the price is higher.
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3/27/24
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I no longer remember when I first encountered the poems of W.S. Merwin, but it was likely in some snooty magazine back in the 1980s I had no business reading. Once discovered, I sought out his poetry …
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3/27/24
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A rollover car accident at approximately 5:15 p.m. March 5 blocked the Key Peninsula Highway in both directions just north of Key Center for 45 minutes, leading to substantial traffic at a busy hour.
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3/27/24
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Tom Bates returned from three months shuttling supplies to frontline areas and getting abandoned animals out on his fourth trip to the war.
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2/28/24
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Greyson Reichelderfer of Palmer Lake, 7, faced a medical emergency on December 6 but survived because of his dad, Paul, and the quick thinking of Key Peninsula firefighters.
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1/31/24
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It was a long evening with old friends and their children, who outnumbered us at our long table, all in college or college-aged, as we found our way through a cold ceviche, warm pear salad, and a …
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11/30/23
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It started a year ago, or maybe 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 wooden sloop Rozinante.
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11/30/23
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Violence tests us in unexpected ways. It strains our identity when the time comes to defend all those fancy principles we think we hold.
I was already suitably humbled when I heard the …
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11/2/23
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Lakebay resident Brayden VanderDoes, 9, stood in front of a large brass ship’s bell mounted in a Seattle Children’s Hospital lobby, surrounded by family, staff and fellow patients.
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11/2/23
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