On May 10, 2016, then Herron Island ferry captain John Farris posted a photo on the islanders’ group on Facebook with a laconic caption, as was his style, even though the announcement could …
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Joseph Pentheroudakis
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9/27/23
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Happy birthday wishes arrived by letter from President Joe and First Lady Jill Biden, as well as from Gov. Jay Inslee and his wife Trudi, with their congratulations. Generations of family and …
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Ed Johnson and Lisa Bryan, KP News
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9/27/23
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The Key Peninsula Volunteer Firefighters Association and Fire District 16 honored its longest-serving member at the Sept. 12 commission meeting, commending Jerry Marsh for 50 years of service …
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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9/27/23
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Within six months of each other two women with deep Wauna connections will reach a rare milestone. Marcelle “Mar” Hoey and Betty Boyd will celebrate their 100th birthdays — Hoey
in …
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Sara Thompson, KP News
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9/27/23
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Dusk, late summer. A deer works the edge of the pasture. A lonely frog, peeping, is answered by a cricket. As the light slips, a bat skitters in and out of the shrinking circle I can see.
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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9/27/23
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The bones look like driftwood from a distance, half-submerged at the high tide line. Binoculars reveal them to be ancient stone artifacts. Or so it seems. This whale carcass is hard to believe.
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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9/27/23
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Who said we have no sense of history around here?
I mean, we love to retell the old stories of anarchists, contraception pioneers, free love, and —gasp — nude bathing in Home Colony …
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Dan Clouse
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9/27/23
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When you are as busy as new Peninsula High School girls and boys swim coach Athena Petterson, your day job and night job start to blur together.
When her team isn’t winning meets, …
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Eddie Macsalka, KP News
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9/27/23
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Derek Grannes and Alex Donahou were tossing back a few drinks at The Floatation Device Pub & Grill near the Purdy Spit last December. Nothing strange about friends of nearly 20 years getting …
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Eddie Macsalka, KP News
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9/27/23
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Rachel Ostoyich knows where she is going when she dies.
She’s been there already. Because she died already.
It was 2008. Ostoyich, then 19, was at Allenmore Hospital in Tacoma. She …
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Eddie Macsalka, KP News
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9/27/23
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Water rippling on a windshield. That’s how Alex Burley describes the look of the spirits she speaks with.
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Eddie Macsalka, KP News
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9/27/23
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After a seven-year drought, the Tides overcame a 14-0 halftime deficit to win the Fish Bowl for the first time since 2015.
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Eddie Macsalka, KP News
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9/16/23
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed that three adult harbor seals in Puget Sound tested positive for the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 strain Sept. 8. The seals stranded on …
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Staff Report
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9/14/23
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The Peninsula Seahawks boys and girls cross-country teams returned to the trails last month, getting a head start on the fall sports season.
Both teams are looking to build off momentum gained …
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Eddie Macsalka
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8/30/23
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Doug MacLeod first picked up a guitar in 1960 or ’61.
“I wish I could say it was a great artistic vision, but I wanted to get girls,” he said.
Since then he has written …
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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8/30/23
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You may remember the first few words of the intro to a popular MTV reality show: “This is the true story of seven strangers, picked to live in a house, work together … ”
What …
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Eddie Macsalka, KP News
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8/30/23
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Tom Bates of Lakebay, 69, returned home June 23 after nine months of rescuing animals and delivering food and medical supplies as a volunteer to the battlefronts of Ukraine. He arrived for the first …
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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8/30/23
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I recently overheard someone giving a small sermon about how they no longer wish to entertain “small talk.”
Initially, I understood the sentiment and even quietly cheered for …
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Kamryn Minch
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8/30/23
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Learning how to wrestle isn’t easy. Learning three styles of wrestling is tough. Excelling at all three seems near impossible.
For brothers Peyton, Preston and Paxton Beckett, …
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Eddie Macsalka, KP News
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8/30/23
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Last month my wife was attacked while running near our home in Lakebay. It was dusk. She had just left the paved county road for a forest road when she felt something grab her hair and yank upward. …
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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8/30/23
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