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Key Center can be a busy place, and unless one is an old-timer or paying close attention it’s easy to miss the blue house on the west side of the road, on a slope between Sunnycrest Nursery and …
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Joseph Pentheroudakis, KP News
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12/30/21
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Mark Zuckerberg was in first grade when a business school professor coined the expression “fear of missing out” 30 years ago. The researcher noticed how people struggle to choose when …
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Dan Clouse
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12/30/21
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First, I’d like to let everyone know that I am only exercising my First Amendment rights here. I am not discussing this subject from a scholarly perspective but as a civic-minded parent with a …
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Rion Tisino
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12/30/21
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At the Holocaust Center for Humanity in Seattle there is a student leadership board for students from all over Washington who learn about the Holocaust and related issues, such as genocide, …
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Grace Nesbit
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12/30/21
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I, Carolyn Wiley, being of questionably sound mind, resolve to make no New Year’s Resolutions — not this year, next year or ever again.
If I don’t have the time or energy to make the change …
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Carolyn Wiley
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12/30/21
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Some of my teenaged relatives enlisted after 9/11.
One became a Marine and deployed to Afghanistan. He did convoy duty or was behind the wire, on base. When he came home, he had nothing but …
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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12/30/21
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“May Peace Prevail on Earth” was the message celebrating the installation of Peace Poles at Evergreen Elementary School Dec. 10. The phrase is posted on the monument in eight different …
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Carolyn Wiley, KP News
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12/30/21
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As the population of the Key Peninsula has grown, so have complaints of terrible traffic and new construction. But the rate of increase over the last 10 years is comparable to that of the country, …
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Sara Thompson, KP News
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12/30/21
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There is a strong feeling among residents that property crime rates are rising on the Key Peninsula and that law enforcement appears to be unwilling or unable to apprehend and detain suspects. …
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Sara Thompson, KP News
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12/30/21
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After nearly two years of challenges brought on by the pandemic, including the loss of a local program for younger Scouts, Scout Troop 220 and Cub Scout Pack 222 are back together again, meeting weekly at the Key Peninsula Civic Center …
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Krisa Bruemmer, KP News
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12/30/21
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Longbranch resident Ava Tisino, 10, won a first place trophy for mastery of the piano in her category at the annual Gig Harbor Music Teachers Association Music Olympics Nov. 20 at Harbor Covenant …
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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12/30/21
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After over 40 years practicing medicine on the Key Peninsula, Dr. William Roes is entering a phase of semi-retirement.
Starting Dec. 30, Roes will cut back to approximately two days a week …
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Krisa Bruemmer, KP News
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12/30/21
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12/30/21
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Let’s take a ramble. Let’s head through this soggy pasture and aim for the woods.
Think of all we’ve seen in the last year on the KP, the encounters with deer and moths, the …
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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12/30/21
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When I was young, say about 65 years ago, our family enjoyed digging for razor clams on Washington’s beaches every time the tide was sufficiently low. In those days there were perhaps 30 brave …
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Brad Sherman
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12/30/21
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The Key Peninsula Fire District board of fire commissioners unexpectedly voted to put Assistant Fire Chief Hal Wolverton on paid administrative leave during its biweekly meeting Dec. 14.
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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12/15/21
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Blend Wine Shop closed its doors — eventually — for the last time Oct. 30.
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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12/2/21
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12/2/21
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The Peninsula School District officially welcomed its third of four new buildings this year with a formal ribbon-cutting and public tour at Evergreen Elementary. It is the first new school built on the Key Peninsula in decades.
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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12/2/21
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Pierce County Fire District 16 Board of Commissioners appointed Assistant Chief Hal Wolverton interim fire chief for Key Peninsula Fire Department.
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Lisa Bryan, KP News
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12/2/21
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