It may be a while before your tomato plants flower and set fruit to grow and ripen for harvest. Until then, satisfy your craving for food that tastes clean, fresh and bright with this Greek-inspired …
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Lisa Bryan, KP News
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6/1/22
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The nationwide program Girls on the Run returned this spring to Evergreen Elementary School for a 12-week season. Eighteen girls from third through fifth grade met after school twice a week for …
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Krisa Bruemmer, KP News
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6/1/22
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The Longbranch Foundation was just one of 18 Key Peninsula donors to the Peninsula Hawks Scholarship Fund in 2022, but it’s also one of the biggest institutional supporters of KP …
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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6/1/22
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Plans to build a pumpout station at the Longbranch Marina, designed to give boaters a way to empty their sewage tanks, was halted by an unexpected permitting roadblock because of a shared well that …
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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6/1/22
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If you live on or drive by Tiedman Road, you may have noticed that the spelling on the road signs was recently changed to Tiedeman. Pierce County updated the signs the week of April 18 to reflect the …
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Joseph Pentheroudakis, KP News
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6/1/22
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Bette (“Betty”) McCord has been one of the first faces students, parents, community providers, volunteers and visitors have seen when they enter Evergreen Elementary School for over three …
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Krisa Bruemmer, KP News
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6/1/22
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One hundred and thirty-four graduating Peninsula High School seniors received $366,800 in scholarships at the Peninsula Hawks Scholarship Fund award ceremony May 18. Fifty scholarship winners were …
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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6/1/22
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Community leaders, colleagues, former staff, friends and family gathered at the Key Peninsula Civic Center April 23 in gratitude for the humble, kind-hearted country doctor who practiced medicine as …
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Lisa Bryan, KP News
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6/1/22
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The summer when I was 6 years old, I spent hours hanging from the big oak tree behind the garage. Between me and the oak branch were two ropes, each tied to a suspended 16-inch ring. If I hung onto …
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Phyllis Henry
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6/1/22
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Not much of a churchgoer, but I have embraced some of the aspirational ideas I’ve heard there. In one church many years ago, I heard a sermon about stewardship that stuck with me. In my very …
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Jack Dunne
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6/1/22
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On a hot day last August, the Whitmarsh family took a trip to Seattle to visit the Space Needle. Standing in the viewing area, we were shocked to see a large plume of smoke rising to the west. We …
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Natalie Pierson/Olivia Whitmarsh
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6/1/22
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I was a university sophomore in New York City in the fall of 1982. There was a girl in my art history class who stood out as particularly smart, attractive and friendly in the way people are who have …
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Ted Olinger
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6/1/22
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The first “back to normal” school year since the COVID-19 pandemic began is slowly wrapping up. Yearbooks are on sale, the senior Nerf wars are ending, and all the annual …
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Grace Nesbit
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6/1/22
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I just read the latest Joseph Pentheroudakis column, (On the Wing, “1968,” May 2022), which brought back many memories of that time. Two years before him, in the summer of ’66, I …
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6/1/22
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Coincidences always grab my attention and are easy to understand as hints that there is a pattern to life. Imagine my thrilled surprise on reading the words “M/S Aurelia” in another great …
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6/1/22
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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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Born Lillian Marie Ryan in Kansas City, Missouri, March 26, 1946, Lulu Smith died at home in Lakebay surrounded by family April 22. She was 76. She was blessed with four children who continued to …
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5/31/22
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5/29/22
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Graphic notes on local life
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José Alaniz
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5/27/22
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4/27/22
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