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Lakebay resident Siu-May “Sil” Wong-Underwood, 44, returned home March 12 from an 11-day mission to the Polish border with Ukraine to assess needs and provide resources for the … more

Ted Olinger, KP News | 3/31/22

Longbranch Cemetery Poised to Expand

A walk through the gate of the Longbranch Cemetery reveals a place that invites reflection. Past and present intermingle. Some stones are covered with moss while others reflect sunlight from polished … more

Sara Thompson, KP News | 3/31/22

Deep in the Tree Frog's Chorus

At last, I find a frog. It is spread-eagled in the shallow water like a lost toy. Its throat floats before it as round and sheer as a soap bubble, pushing its head up. It looks almost pathetic as it … more

Chris Rurik, KP News | 3/31/22

Road Rage in the Time of COVID-19

Traffic fatalities across the U.S. increased 12% in the first nine months of 2021 compared to the same period in 2020, the largest annual rise since 1975 according to an October 2021 study from the … more

Ted Olinger, KP News | 3/31/22

The Second Mountain by David Brooks

Many times over the last 18-plus years I have wondered why I feel so much at home and so contented on the Key Peninsula. Certainly, there are many similarities to Scotland but that really … more

Maureen Riley | 3/31/22

Fishing Under the Bridge

While drivers rattle the Purdy bridge in cars and trucks, fly fishers often stand thigh deep in saltwater below at the mouth of the Burley Lagoon, their attention fixed on a far different … more

Chris Rurik, KP News | 3/31/22

Laura Harbaugh with husband Stanton, baby Hendrix and their dog Nuggen on the beach at Olman Point.

KP Businesswoman Makes Her Passion Her Work

Laura Harbaugh always wanted to be an artist. Her father worked as professional photographer and her mother worked for the county as a conservationist, racing to protect heritage farmland in the … more

Lisa Bryan, KP News | 3/31/22

April 2022 issue

3/29/22

Eruç hoists the Philippine pennant on arrival, delivered by the local kayak club.

Latest Tracker Updates: Westbound Rower Around the World

Follow KP resident's heroic one-person-powered voyage more

Ted Olinger, KP News | 3/27/22

Douglas Sylvers

Longbranch resident Doug Sylvers died peacefully Feb. 21. He was 85. Born in 1937 in Minneapolis, Doug graduated in 1959 from the University of Minnesota with a Bachelor of Science degree in … more

3/26/22

Assistant Fire Chief Wolverton Exonerated, Returned to Duty

Assistant Fire Chief Hal Wolverton was returned to duty by the Key Peninsula Board of Fire Commissioners 14 weeks after it placed him on paid administrative leave during a third party investigation … more

Ted Olinger, KP News | 3/23/22

Reenacting a 19th-century tradition, KPFD personnel perform the “push-in” ceremony with a new ambulance at Longbranch station in February. In the 1800s, horses were unharnessed after returning a fire wagon to its station and firefighters pushed it into the bay.

KPFD Confronts Budget Crunch and Skeptical Residents

The bimonthly Key Peninsula fire commission meetings have been unusually well attended since the public first learned the fire district bought $2.125 million worth of Key Center real estate at the … more

Ted Olinger, KP News | 2/28/22

From left to right, CISP Executive Director Colleen Speer, Volunteer and Communications Director Myka Cranford, and Program Director Laurel Shultz.

Windfall Donation for Communities In Schools of Peninsula

Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott donated $133.5 million to the national nonprofit Communities in Schools Feb. 3. It was the largest unsolicited and unrestricted gift in the organization’s … more

Carolyn Wiley, KP News | 2/28/22

Eruç shared his boat with a red-footed booby for a few days in December.

KP Man Rowing Across the Pacific Now Aims for Singapore

Solo circumnavigator Erden Eruç, 60, of Wauna, made landfall on Guam Feb. 12 after 208 days rowing from California by way of Oahu on his second human-powered trip around the world. He has … more

Ted Olinger, KP News | 2/28/22

Erden Eruç: In His Own Words

All told, I’ve spent about three years in this rowboat. This morning, I am at a position 80 miles south of Wake Island (bound for Hong Kong). Ever since the storm that knocked my rowboat … more

2/28/22

Their Time

An old pal of mine asked me to do him a favor a couple years ago and come talk to a freshman composition class at the university where he was a dean. It would really help him out; his department had … more

Ted Olinger, KP News | 2/28/22

Bedtime Stalling

Every night Violet’s dad reads “Go, Dog. Go!” at bedtime. Over time the story has grown, nearly doubling in length with the addition of words and lines that Violet has come up with … more

Krisa Bruemmer, KP News | 2/28/22

Are the Kids All Right?

This school year has been something different. Back in classrooms, but with masks? And the shock of returning as a junior at Peninsula High School after only one in-person semester freshman year. … more

Grace Nesbit | 2/28/22

Sittin' on Top of the World

As some of you may recall from earlier columns, we migrated north a few years ago and continue to delight in the many ways our new home enriches us. Here I’d like to make another observation. I … more

Jack Dunne | 2/28/22

Someone Ought to Do Something

On the last Saturday of January, before the sun peeked over the mountains, I dragged myself out of bed to join my mom on her crusade to pick up litter. Not just any litter either, it was the crème … more

Kamryn Minch | 2/28/22