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Chris Bronstad is painting for Ukraine.
The retired Key Peninsula Middle School teacher and local artist, who lives in Vaughn, spent the last few years concentrating on his award-winning artwork. …
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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4/26/22
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It is important for the public to understand why Key Peninsula volunteer firefighters have been outspoken at recent board of commissioner meetings. Volunteers are all citizens who live on the Key …
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4/26/22
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Thank you for having the courage to publish Carolyn Wiley’s best column, ever. I’m still laughing.Marcia Harris, Lakebay
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4/26/22
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I am enclosing a check for $30 for another year’s subscription. I am a very old woman who lived my happiest years on that peninsula. The newspaper gets down here in good condition — even …
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4/26/22
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Dominick “Nick” Swinhart was hired as the new chief for KP Fire District 16 by the board of fire commissioners at their biweekly meeting April 12. He will start the job May 16, succeeding …
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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4/26/22
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Nick Swinhart grew up in Montesano.
“As a paid firefighter I started in Raymond in 1992, but I started before that in 1989 as a volunteer in Grays Harbor. Most of my career was spent at the …
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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4/26/22
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Six months after breaking ground on the first assisted-living homes for elders on the Key Peninsula — a dream that took over a decade to launch — the Mustard Seed Project received the …
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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4/26/22
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Listen for the loud “klee-klee-klee” call of greater yellowlegs in estuaries and flooded fields. This shorebird passes through the Key Peninsula during spring and fall migrations. Watch …
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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4/26/22
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Most people who drive the section of Key Peninsula Highway between Home and Whiteman Road get a lift from seeing the white picket fence, the blossom-filled yard and the little flower stand on the …
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Carolyn Wiley, KP News
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4/26/22
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I was out working in the garden the other day (what else is new?), crawling under some rhododendrons, thankful it’s not yet spider web season, and gently scraping my hand rake along the top …
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Kamryn Minch
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4/26/22
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Held in honor of its official date of incorporation, April 10, 1956, the Key Peninsula Civic Center Association unveiled its newly installed brick path near the entrance of the civic center during an …
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Staff Report
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4/26/22
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Since time immemorial, writers in Russia have had the most forceful, penetrating and far-reaching responses to what was happening in their country — for those willing to listen, …
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José Alaniz
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4/26/22
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Graphic notes on local life
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José Alaniz
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4/25/22
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On April 11, LuElla went to be with her Lord after being diagnosed with congestive heart and kidney failure.
Born LuElla Meyer Oct. 2, 1925, she grew up on a farm near …
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4/24/22
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William “Bill” Scott passed into the arms of Jesus, surrounded by his loving family, March 31, at Tacoma General Hospital. His father was Douglas E. Scott, one of the last heroes …
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4/24/22
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My daughter turned 1 just two days after Gov. Jay Inslee issued the first stay-at-home orders of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. We opened birthday presents with family on Facetime and she had …
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Meredith Browand
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3/31/22
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Spring is upon us and summer is fast approaching. The glowing faces of daffodils greet me on these longer days, while our pond is alive with the cacophony of a family of geese who have made a new …
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Dan Whitmarsh
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3/31/22
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I recently had occasion to read step two from a 12-Step program: “Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.” I thought about those words, …
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Vicki Husted Biggs
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3/31/22
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The season of resilience and spirited hope has returned.
Blankets of green moss adorn the trunks of maples, with big leaves unfurled. Early blossoming fruit trees beckon mason bees to wake before …
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Lisa Bryan, Executive Editor
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3/31/22
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Even before I left Texas, I was pretty much a wild-eyed, tree-hugging, bleeding-heart liberal. Having spent my teaching career in schools that served singularly needy neighborhoods, my liberal bias …
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Carolyn Wiley
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3/31/22
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