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We have to talk about it. Asking someone if they are having suicidal thoughts will not give them the idea of ending their life. Instead, it creates an environment where they will feel safe asking for …
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Anne Nesbit
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12/28/22
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It was a sunny fall day, so I went for a run at Gateway Park. When I run, I like to give folks a half smile and a little wave when I pass them. I get something similar in return or the opposite, …
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Arissan Nicole
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12/28/22
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Time and again I’ve heard that “all politics is local,” but I’m beginning to wonder how true that is. We already know the outcomes of the November 8 election, but before we …
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Lisa Bryan, KP News
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11/30/22
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I can’t walk anymore, so I move around in a power wheelchair. One young friend was surprised to learn that the chair must be plugged in at night to recharge. Because she had never seen me move …
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Phyllis Henry
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11/30/22
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I woke early on those cold winter mornings, the jangling alarm clock wrestling me from blissful Christmas dreams. As the rest of the family slept, I pulled on my wool socks and long underwear, topped …
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Dan Whitmarsh
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11/30/22
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Senioritis. The urban dictionary defines it as “A crippling disease that strikes high school seniors. Symptoms include laziness, an excessive wearing of track pants, old athletic shirts, …
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Grace Nesbit
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11/30/22
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The signs were unmistakable, but also unexpected. There was the change of leaves and the return of rain-soaked school buses, of course, and the annual appearance of the local bear on her hind legs …
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Ted Olinger
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11/30/22
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Graphic notes on local life
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José Alaniz
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11/28/22
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The Temptations’ Motown classics, “My Girl,” “Get Ready” and “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg,” were music highlights of my high school years.
The songs …
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Dan Clouse
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10/27/22
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My granddaughter and I have a new tradition, something I never could have predicted. We demonstrate for women’s rights together. Today we stood on a corner in Gig Harbor along with other women, …
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Vicki Biggs
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10/27/22
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“What happened?” It’s a fundamentally human question, maybe the closest we get to simple curiosity. And it’s not simple, not at all. Eyewitness accounts can be flawed, even events from my …
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Jack Dunne
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10/27/22
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I recently watched a short video about a man who lives in the metaverse. The video jumped back and forth between the real world and a computer-generated alternate reality. In the metaverse scenes, I …
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April Godwin
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10/27/22
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“You haven’t made one playdate for me all summer,” Violet, now 7, said one evening in early August.
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Krisa Bruemmer
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9/28/22
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Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna Therapeutics developed wonderfully effective vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus in 2020 based on RNA therapy.
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Richard Gelinas
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9/28/22
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I have always been cursed with a loud, persistent and frankly irritating self-critical voice.
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Joseph Pentheroudakis
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9/28/22
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I was raised by public school educators. I saw firsthand the work, dedication and compassion that being a teacher required.
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Meredith Browand
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9/28/22
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By the time our citizens read this, I will have been the “new” fire chief of Key Peninsula Fire District 16 for five months.
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Nick Swinhart
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9/28/22
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Graphic notes on local life
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José Alaniz
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9/28/22
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The warm, lazy days of summer can be the perfect season to foster procrastination. Do you, like me, identify as a procrastinator? I used to call myself a functioning procrastinator. I always turned …
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Arissan Nicole
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8/31/22
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