Ted Ralston was born August 24, 1948 in Seattle, the only child of Sam and Joy Ralston. Joanna Gormly was born in New Jersey, March 18, 1947, to Richard and Janet Gormly. Ted and …
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6/26/20
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When graduating senior Jonah Derrick began his junior year at Peninsula High School as a new student in the fall of 2018, he told his parents he missed his athletic team back in Colorado, part of the worldwide Special Olympics Unified Sports program.
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Krisa Bruemmer, KP News
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5/29/20
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Local Native American artist Shana Lukinich and her daughter, Satiana “Tia” Foote, have produced and distributed over 2,000 free masks since the onset of the COVID-19 outbreak in Washington state.
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Krisa Bruemmer, KP News
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5/29/20
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Social distancing and business closures have affected hospitals too, reducing …
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Caleb Galbreath, KP News
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5/29/20
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Students, teachers, staff and parents had to team up to face an unprecedented challenge. Students and teachers entered a new learning world when schools closed suddenly …
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Sara Thompson, KP News
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5/29/20
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Solid leadership and energetic volunteers backed by a generous community combine to meet the challenge of rising childhood food insecurity.
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Staff Report
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5/29/20
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When schools closed and the coronavirus shut down their public programs, the local nonprofit went into overdrive to meet the needs of a rising tide of new clients, many living …
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Lisa Bryan, KP News
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5/29/20
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Constituents heard updates from federal and local leaders. Congressman Derek Kilmer (D-6th) hosted a telephone town hall May 11 to provide an update on the federal …
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Megan Schowalter, KP News
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5/29/20
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Amidst a pandemic, a teacher and her students strive to learn about humanity.Vicky Schauer, eighth- grade English and Language Arts teacher at Key Peninsula Middle School, is passionate about her final unit, Voices of the Holocaust.
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Sara Thompson, KP News
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5/29/20
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Fire Chief Dustin Morrow spells out district funding mechanisms and needs.
Key Peninsula Fire District 16 will return to the voting public for a four-year renewal of its …
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Matthew Dean, KP News
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5/29/20
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It wouldn’t be summer without road construction. An upcoming open house on two projects will provide an opportunity for community input. Progress continues as scheduled to …
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Staff Report
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5/29/20
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Three years ago, the publishing board set a strategic goal of financial stability. As local community newspapers around the country falter, consolidate or suspend operations, the …
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Staff Report
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5/29/20
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Using science to limit slug damage. Slugs are different things to different people: a gardener’s nightmare, a forest worker breaking down decomposing forest vegetation, …
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Sara Thompson, KP News
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5/29/20
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Coyotes are singing on the peninsula. They wake me in the wee hours. My mind needs a good minute or two to figure out if the eerie sounds
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Chris Rurik, Special to the KP News
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5/29/20
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The Asian giant hornet, an invasive species with a craving for honey bees, has been spotted in northwestern Washington.
A winged giant has found its way to Washington …
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Caleb Galbreath, KP News
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5/29/20
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“A Journal of the Plague Year,” Daniel Defoe’s short book about the 1665 outbreak in London of what is believed to have been bubonic plague, is never a comforting read; it is even less so in these times of a global pandemic.
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Joseph Pentheroudakis, KP News
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5/29/20
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On my cookbook shelf sits a copy of a Key Peninsula Civic Center community cookbook from 1977. It is spiral-bound with plastic, and just a look at the sans serif font feels …
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Anna Brones
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5/29/20
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Out and About
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5/29/20
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Father, husband, coach and a driving force behind the enduring …
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Ted Olinger and Lisa Bryan, KP News
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5/29/20
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Praise and encouragement for the first senior class to graduate under the constraints of a pandemic.
I am so proud of the graduating …
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Staff
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5/29/20
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