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The Key Peninsula is no stranger to the work of dreams, innovation and unconventional thinking, and the latest example is a new house built on Rocky Bay.
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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3/31/21
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A year after its abrupt closure, Peninsula School District schools are now open to all students who want to attend in-person classes. Peninsula, Gig Harbor and Henderson Bay high schools, the last to open, welcomed students in mid-March.
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Sara Thompson, KP News
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3/31/21
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For many a practical Key Peninsula gardener, this is the time to focus on the vegetable garden —planting seeds, nurturing starts — but this is also a time when the more fanciful aspects …
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Sara Thompson, KP News
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3/31/21
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The main branch of the New York City library at Fifth Avenue straddling 41st and 42nd Streets is one of the most famous public temples of knowledge in the United States. Even if you’re just a …
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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3/31/21
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Food is love. Food is history. Food is a story.
Most families have recipes passed down from preceding generations. It’s not because they are gourmet or have exotic ingredients; they can be …
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Ann-Marie Ugles
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3/31/21
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Ed Bressette wants to make his little corner of the world a better place. That desire made him a lifelong learner. It led him to a career at the YMCA. It is why he’s fascinated by alternative …
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Sara Thompson, KP News
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3/31/21
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3/31/21
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Information from local nonprofit organizations dedicated to making the KP a better place.
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3/15/21
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2/25/21
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2/25/21
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The Peninsula High School Seahawks defeated their perennial rivals and friends, the Gig Harbor Tides, 36-12 in the opening game of a resurrected season Feb. 19.
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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2/24/21
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Planning for the return of students to classrooms has been complicated. Logistics for transportation, meals, recess and passing from one class to another had to be taken into account.
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Sara Thompson, KP News
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2/24/21
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No one has escaped the impact of the pandemic — but some restaurants and bars have been hit especially hard, including longtime Key Peninsula haunts and hangouts.
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Sara Thompson & Lisa Bryan
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2/24/21
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Herb Clippert remembers coming to the Renaissance Faire on the property that is now Gateway Park. When he saw earth-moving equipment in 2017, he “didn’t know what it would turn out to be.”
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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2/24/21
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When I Google “alone” I find a bunch of synonyms: single, friendless, solitary, lone, lonesome and more. I’m alone a lot these COVID-19 days. Today I spoke six words. Each time a …
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Phyllis Henry
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2/24/21
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This winter has been difficult, perhaps more so than I had anticipated, the result of a combination of winter blues, too much political news and the “endless endlessness” of an ongoing …
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Anna Brones
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2/24/21
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Social distancing opened up blocks of unscheduled time and put the lie to my standard excuse: “I don’t have time to ____.” In the initial phase of isolation, I felt the need to …
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Carolyn Wiley
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2/24/21
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I have had a great deal of time to think over the past year. These days, there’s not much to do on a Friday night once the dishes are done and the laundry is folded. So if I’ve got …
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Matthew Dean
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2/24/21
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On his first day in office, President Joe Biden brought the U.S. back into the Paris Climate Accord, revoked permits for the Keystone XL Pipeline and imposed a temporary moratorium on oil and gas …
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Richard Gelinas
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2/24/21
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I just couldn’t resist writing to tell you that Ted Olinger’s column “Lost Valentine” (Feb. 2021) reminded me of a similar situation I had at Stadium High School in the 1950s.
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2/24/21
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