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Virginia Thompson of Lakebay died January 3. She was 99 years old.
Daughter, sister, wife, mother, aunt, grandmother, great-grandmother, friend. Writer, painter, teacher. Virginia was all of these …
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1/29/23
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Susan Henry of Vaughn died October 20. She was 73 years old.
Sue was born in 1949 on Vashon Island to George and Mary Alice Schoeppel and was later raised by her stepmother, Ruby Schoeppel. She …
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1/29/23
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1/18/23
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Graphic notes on local life
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José Alaniz
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12/28/22
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The Key Peninsula board of fire commissioners voted 4-0 to approve its 2023 budget for Fire District 16 at its November 22 meeting. The fifth commissioner had an excused …
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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12/28/22
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Dec. 14, 2012 dawned like any other mid-winter day. School was winding down before the holidays, Christmas was on the horizon, and families were anticipating the start of the coming new year. But it …
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Meredith Browand
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12/28/22
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We have to talk about it. Asking someone if they are having suicidal thoughts will not give them the idea of ending their life. Instead, it creates an environment where they will feel safe asking for …
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Anne Nesbit
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12/28/22
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It was a sunny fall day, so I went for a run at Gateway Park. When I run, I like to give folks a half smile and a little wave when I pass them. I get something similar in return or the opposite, …
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Arissan Nicole
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12/28/22
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Quite a while ago I had an opportunity to host a group who shared unique recreational interests. We were discussing future development of some vacant property and quickly got into a brain-storming …
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Mark Michel
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12/28/22
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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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12/28/22
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The only Cub Scout Pack on the Key Peninsula is at risk of being disbanded after a lack of volunteers and low funding due to poor popcorn sales, the pack’s main fundraiser.
Cub Scout Pack …
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Staff Report
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12/28/22
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At the Key Pen Park board of commissioners meeting December 14, the board responded to an earlier proposal presented by a group of community leaders.
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Lisa Bryan, KP News
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12/28/22
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The Key Peninsula Fire Department had been contemplating replacement of Station 46, its district headquarters, for some years without a specific plan when three real estate parcels in Key Center came …
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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12/28/22
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It’s not easy to be a parent. Being a parent in a rural community brings its own set of additional challenges.
“It is a daycare desert,” said Madison Johnson, mother of a baby …
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Sara Thompson, KP News
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12/28/22
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12/28/22
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Ed Gilkison is a creature of habit.
The 67-year-old has lived in the same Lakebay area since 1966. He starts every morning with a cup of percolated Folgers coffee. He regularly digs through shoe …
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Eddie Macsalka, KP News
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12/28/22
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A robin pulls a worm from the lawn. A brief tension, released, and with a few tosses of the robin’s head the worm is gone.
Dawn on New Year’s Day. It’s my first bird of the year. …
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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12/28/22
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