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In 2019, 66.5% of the voters approved a bond measure to build four new elementary schools, including Evergreen Elementary on Key Peninsula, which will alleviate drastic overcrowding and improve …
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8/28/21
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As a professor of education for 30 years, I was both saddened and alarmed by an ad placed in last month’s Key Peninsula News by candidates running for our school board.
The ad begins with …
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8/28/21
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COVID-19 has impacted our children’s education and I see this with my child who’s in the Peninsula School District. Add to that all the political distractions and mask mandates, returning …
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8/28/21
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As a business owner in the Key Center Corral, I have had several very unpleasant encounters with homeless people. Some will argue that they are kind and sweet people and for the most part they are. …
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8/28/21
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Harold Leslie Matthews died June 17, surrounded by loved ones. He was born Dec. 10, 1923 in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada to William and Bessie Matthews.
Harold was a born entrepreneur. At the …
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8/28/21
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Snakes Eaten, Snakes Eating
Recently a friend asked me if there are birds that eat garter snakes. A few, I told him. Red-tailed hawks are known for making off with snakes. It is always an odd …
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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8/28/21
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The Best Blackberry Imaginable
Okay kids, you’ve got a real tough mission this month. You’re going to be asked to eat dozens of delicious blackberries. It’s tough work being a …
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8/28/21
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Peg and Larry Bingham, age 88 and 90 respectively, spent years on the move pursuing various enterprises and adventures, delivering airplanes cross-country, traveling the world, living on a sailboat, …
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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8/28/21
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On a given Friday in recent months a crew of enthusiastic painters gathered at Whiteman Cove, between Joemma State Park and Camp Colman. The number may fluctuate depending on other commitments and …
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Sara Thompson, KP News
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8/28/21
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In June of 1970, Rick and Smitty were fresh graduates of Peninsula High School. They had grown up on the Key Peninsula — Rick on the family homestead in Vaughn and Smitty in Minter. They both …
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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8/28/21
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Multiple improvements over an 8-mile stretch of State Route 302 stretching from Elgin Clifton Road to Purdy, delayed by Covid restrictions in 2020, are back on track for completion by year’s …
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Staff Report
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8/28/21
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‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ by Gabriel García Márquez
We were about a month into this thing last year when I was laid up in the hospital. It wasn’t Covid-related but I was imprisoned long enough to learn what that disease was doing to people, to …
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Katrina Herringbottom
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8/28/21
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An RV and two custom truck trailers set up shop in the parking lot of the Key Peninsula Civic Center. It was the KP’s first visit from the New Hope Mobile Resources Response Team, a collective effort to bring services to people experiencing homelessness on the peninsula.
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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8/28/21
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Picnic: Originally a 17th century French term, “pique-nique,” its meaning then as now is a social gathering where each attendee brings a share of food. For most of us, the word evokes …
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Barbara Von Bogart
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8/28/21
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Drought is the natural summer state on the Key Peninsula. The Pacific Northwest has a Mediterranean climate, with most rain falling in the winter when plants don’t necessarily need it, and dry …
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Sara Thompson, KP News
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8/28/21
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8/28/21
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7/30/21
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Two teenagers died on the Key Peninsula June 28 just a few hours and a few miles apart in unrelated accidents.
Will Huck of Port Orchard, 17, drowned in Horseshoe Lake at approximately 3:15 …
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Staff Report
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7/28/21
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A new historical plaque in honor of the Native People of Filucy Bay was unveiled at the Longbranch Marina in a dedication ceremony May 26. Well-known archeologist and anthropologist Lynn Larson, a …
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Staff Report
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7/1/21
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6/30/21
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