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The 2023 Washington State legislative session welcomed in-person politics back to Olympia for the first time since 2020, when the legislature adjourned days before statewide COVID-19 restrictions …
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Lisa Bryan, KP News
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5/31/23
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In 2021 homeowners on the Key Peninsula began receiving letters informing them they were required to have their septic systems inspected. The two-year process to notify all homeowners in the …
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Sara Thompson, KP News
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5/31/23
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Penrose State Park on the west side of the Key Peninsula near Home reopened for day use only May 15 after being closed to the public Jan. 16 for extensive repairs to its septic system. The campground …
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Staff Report
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5/31/23
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Declining enrollment across the Peninsula School District and a $12 million deficit for the 2023-24 school year are to blame for eliminating five dean of student positions at area elementary schools, …
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Eddie Macsalka, KP News
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5/31/23
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It seems like a circus act, but it’s in a barn. It looks like gymnastics, but there’s no mat. It feels like figure skating, but it’s on dirt. It’s kind of like dancing, but …
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Eddie Macsalka, KP News
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5/31/23
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Mary McGriff looks like she may blow over in the breeze. The 5 foot-2 inch, 100-pound 60-year-old Vaughn resident walks slowly because of a bad hip. Her shoulder movement is a little stiff and her …
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Eddie Macsalka, KP News
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5/31/23
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Jury selection began May 1 in the trial of Ezra Ralston and Sean Higgins for the murders of Ted Ralston, 71, and Joanna Gormly, 73, in their Vaughn home in 2020. Testimony began May 11. The trial is …
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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5/31/23
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More than 100 people gathered May 22 for the first opportunity to speak publicly about a Taylor Shellfish Co. application to convert part of its current oyster and clam bed farms in Burley Lagoon to …
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Sara Thompson, KP News
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5/31/23
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5/31/23
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Graphic notes on local life
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José Alaniz
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5/31/23
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If I was indoctrinated into anything during my years of public school, it was the right to a long summer vacation. I remember the countdown to the last day each school year with the …
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Lisa Bryan, Executive Editor
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5/31/23
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I have been in Ukraine all but 11 weeks since March 2022, most of it volunteering for K9 Rescue International. I’ve rescued and evacuated animals. Brought food to the hungry. Traveled through …
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5/31/23
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I always wanted to be in high school. The Disney Channel glorified high school life and I couldn’t wait until that was me. The life of a high schooler is a roller coaster ride, there are …
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Grace Nesbit
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5/31/23
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These are momentous days in our household. This spring four of us are graduating — from grad school, from college, and the two youngest from Peninsula High School. I have mixed feelings about …
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Dan Whitmarsh
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5/31/23
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As I write this I have not put food in my body for over 48 hours.
Over the last three months, I have been intermittently fasting — going up to three days with no food — and I feel …
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José Alaniz
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5/31/23
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We pay about 6 cents per kilowatt-hour of electricity in Washington state, much less than the national median of 15 cents per kilowatt-hour. Here I’m just comparing the electricity costs, not the …
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Richard Gelinas
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5/31/23
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Riddle me this: What do iceboxes, typewriters and videotapes have in common?
Outdated technology, right? …
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Dan Clouse
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5/31/23
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5/31/23
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Walter Herbert Smith was born Oct. 21, 1936, in Seattle, to Herbert and Ruth Smith. He died May 2 in Palm Desert, California, surrounded by his loved ones. He lived in Vaughn.
Walt …
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5/28/23
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Creative, musical and intellectual with a deep love for family, Bill Trandum died peacefully at Evergreen Hospice in Kirkland April 24. He was 82 years old.
Mr. T was an enormous character who …
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5/28/23
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