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Thanksgiving was a day of talking a little too loudly, gesturing a little too broadly and experiencing all the good feelings of true belonging that we’ve missed over the past two years. It …
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Lisa Bryan, Executive Editor
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12/2/21
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My daughter, Violet, has been waiting for Santa since last January.
It feels like she’s asked, “How much longer until Christmas?” just about every single day.
I was the same …
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Krisa Bruemmer
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12/2/21
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The Christmas season is upon us once again. Even in this second winter of Covid, it is a time for celebration, family, and feasting. Dancing lights twinkle merrily while carolers serenade our streets …
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Dan Whitmarsh
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12/2/21
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Crabs think fish fly. I can hear them, muttering and grumbling, stumbling about on the barnacled rocks along the shores of Puget Sound. The fish too look up jealously at the bottom of my boat as I …
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Jack Dunne
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12/2/21
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I spent a couple of years back in the 1990s working for a small tutoring company in Seattle. The job was to help teenagers academically, but some needed more. We found them better schools, …
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Ted Olinger
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12/2/21
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I have lived in the area over 40 years and walked the beaches and forests of the Key Peninsula. I see firsthand the damage that commercial geoduck harvesting does to the beach. I was at the Haley …
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12/2/21
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I take no pleasure in pointing out the lack of leadership exhibited by the board in handling Chief Morrow’s decision…
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12/2/21
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Lila Lee (Smith) Abraham born Nov. 22, 1930, in Yakima to Jim and Betty Smith, passed away quietly in the company of her family Oct. 23. She was raised in Kellogg, Idaho, and Yakima as her father …
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12/2/21
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Born Oct. 10, 1942, in Morton, Washington, to parents Alfred and Helen Jorgenson England, Clifford B. England aka “Buck,” age 79 of Home, died Nov. 11 at St. Anthony Hospital following …
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12/2/21
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Randy Bart Hindman of Gig Harbor died Oct. 15 at the age of 66. A warrior throughout life, Randy triumphed whenever life threw him a curve ball and persevered despite the odds.
He loved hunting, …
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12/2/21
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Marianne was born in Lakebay to Ernest and Irma Nordquist Sept. 2, 1936. She died peacefully in Renton, surrounded by family Nov. 10.
Marianne graduated from Peninsula High School Class of …
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12/2/21
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In 1982, Smitherman became the first Black man elected to the Legislature from the 26th, which at that time included part of Tacoma, Gig Harbor and the Key Peninsula, west to Gorst.
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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12/2/21
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Peninsula Community Health Services opened the doors to its new Key Peninsula Clinic, providing primary medical and dental care for children and adults.
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Sara Thompson, KP News
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12/2/21
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The Washington State Redistricting Commission failed to meet the deadline to submit its plans for new congressional and legislative district maps Nov. 15. Responsibility for redistricting now goes to …
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Sara Thompson, KP News
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12/2/21
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A Beaver Poop Mystery
The dam is deep in a thicket and quite small. To reach it I’m forced to crab-walk into the lively creek below it. Salmonberry canes extract the small blood offering …
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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12/2/21
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The Key Peninsula once worked hard every December to deck the halls of America with boughs of holly. For a brief decade in the 1930s, one of the most promising crops in the South Puget Sound area was holly.
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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12/2/21
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Most of the year, Santa Claus can go about in public without a single child noticing him. But come autumn, he breaks out his red fedora and starts waxing his moustache; he is no longer incognito.
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Carolyn Wiley, KP News
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12/2/21
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Growing up in southern Minnesota, the holiday season for our family centered on the run up to Christmas Eve. Holiday baking began as soon as the Thanksgiving table was cleared, with a variety of …
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Barbara Van Bogart
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12/2/21
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Red Barn Youth Center teamed up with Key Pen Parks to take nine students from Key Peninsula Middle School for a guided mountain bike ride. It was a ride they won't soon forget.
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Lisa Bryan, KP News
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12/2/21
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After over a year of adapting to changes brought on by the pandemic the Pierce County Library System has reopened its buildings to the public.
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Krisa Bruemmer, KP News
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12/2/21
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