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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Lisa Bryan, KP News
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3/1/23
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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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3/1/23
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I was annoyed to read the letter from Dale Lyman complaining about your Progressively Liberal Left-Wing Communist (OK, I’m exaggerating slightly) publication (“KP News Is Biased Liberal …
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3/1/23
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Please bring back the bird to the KP News masthead. I always look at the bird first. The masthead seems blank without it.
Diane Yorgason-Quinn, Gig Harbor
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3/1/23
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My gratitude for the article about the book “Just Mercy” and its author, Bryan Stevenson. I knew nothing about Bryan and his work until a few years ago when I visited Montgomery, Alabama, …
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3/1/23
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In 1990 I was a 26-year-old dilettante who thought I’d accumulated enough savings and contacts and clout working at a big time publisher in New York City to believe I could plunge blind-folded …
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Ted Olinger
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3/1/23
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I am not quite old enough to remember the assassination of Lincoln, but I do remember hearing Hank Snow’s 1962 hit “I’ve Been Everywhere, Man” on AM radio.
If you are a youngster, that’s …
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Dan Clouse
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3/1/23
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Artificial intelligence is coming for your job! It’s coming for my job! It’s taking us a step closer to the singularity! We need to prepare for the rise of the machines! …
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April Godwin
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3/1/23
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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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Vicki Biggs
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3/1/23
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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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Graphic notes on local life
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José Alaniz
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3/1/23
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3/1/23
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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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2/25/23
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Mary Patrice (Lambion) Cultum died at her home, in Vaughn, January 9. She was born March 18, 1951, in Kansas City, Missouri, to James McLaughlin Lambion and Mary Joanne (Brewster) Lambion, both of …
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2/25/23
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Peninsula overcame adversity in head coach Hannah Lekson’s first season to punch their ticket to the 3A state tournament.
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Eddie Macsalka, KP News
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2/12/23
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Harnessing fusion energy as a source for carbon-free, near limitless electricity seemed much closer last November when the Department of Energy breathlessly announced a key advance: there was a …
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Richard Gelinas
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2/1/23
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We were on Pirates of the Caribbean, my 6-year-old daughter wide-eyed with glee for the realism and mystery, while my 3-year-old son quickly closed his eyes and put his head down in my lap — …
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Jack Dunne
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2/1/23
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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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At some point a grave is no longer a grave, just a depression. Then a disturbance in the soil. Then part of the garden, a pile of rocks. (She’s gone.)
Lots of rocks down here.
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José Alaniz
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2/1/23
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Kari Trivette has a great deal of experience with the Peninsula School District. Her kids attended Minter Creek Elementary, Harbor Ridge Middle School, and graduated from Peninsula High School with …
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Lisa Bryan, KP News
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2/1/23
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