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Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950) wrote under the pen name George Orwell to avoid embarrassing his family. He is the author of six novels and three works of nonfiction, including his Catalonia … more
Seahawks Team Captain Lee Gjertson recently committed to swim at the University of New Mexico next fall.
Peninsula Girls Swim Team Wins District Title, Breaks School Record: Fall Sports Update
Peninsula High School won the 3A West Central District 3 girls swimming and diving title Oct. 31 at Mount Tahoma High School, capturing six events, including all three relays. The district victory … more
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Local civic leaders Arianna and Alexandra Sprague, 10, with the late Nan Feagin of Home, took it upon themselves to design, construct, and install what are believed to be the first little free libraries on the KP in September 2016 for a homeschool project. The libraries have seen continuous duty in Key Center in front of Sunnycrest Nursery and in Home at 7th and C streets ever since.
The Legend of ‘Book Ninja’ — Stalking and Stocking
Book nerds unite: There’s a home for your books and your books that need a home in a little free library. more
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The 2026-2027 season will be the third for flag football as a WIAA sanctioned sport at Peninsula High School.
Drew Campbell Takes the Reins of PHS Girls Flag Football
The younger Campbell replaces his dad, Brent, who launched the school’s flag football program. more
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Key Peninsula News Goes to State, Brings Home 20 Awards
Six columnists swept two categories while writers Eddie Macsalka and Ted Olinger received top honors. more
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Gjertson has earned league co-MVP honors, won district championships and helped set a school record in the 200-yard freestyle relay.
PHS’s Lee Gjertson Commits to Swim at University of New Mexico
Former Minter Creek Elementary and KPMS student makes her mark in the pool, marching band, and classroom. more
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Major fault zones and late-Holocene fault scarps in the neighborhood. A scarp is a small, step-like offset or cliff where one side of a fault has moved vertically relative to the other.
About the Wauna Earthquake — And That Other One 1,100 Years Ago
How did we end up with an earthquake to call our own? more
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Asher Epstein celebrates a defensive stop during the Fish Bowl.
The Epsteins Share One Last Season on the Seahawks Sidelines
After 27 seasons coaching Peninsula football, Joel Epstein is watching his youngest son become one of the Seahawks’ top defenders. more
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Simple to make and easy to love.
How to Save Your Bland Thanksgiving With Salty Honey Pie
KP Cooks: If we’re going to be fighting about politics and making awkward chitchat with great-uncles and dotty aunts we see once a year, can’t we at least be doing it over food that’s actually good? more
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The Sabbath Poems of Wendell Berry
KP Reads: These Sabbath poems are unlike his other poems. They were never intended to be performed. They are not arguments. They derive from a tradition of silencing the human voice and surrendering more
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Courageous Kids Climbing welcomes all comers.
There’s Room for Everyone on This Wall
Courageous Kids Climbing has spent more than a decade offering opportunities for people of all ages with developmental, physical, or intellectual disabilities. more
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The highly nonstandard yet endlessly iconic Katrina Army Base Stew.
Katrina Cooks Something Healthy and Is Amazed at Herself
KP Cooks: "What if I made Korean Army Base Stew with healthy ingredients?" more
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Berry-faced Sugar wears the evidence of a productive workday after feasting on blackberries on Key Peninsula Fire District property behind Sunnycrest Nursery in Key Center. “One goat led to another goat, and all of a sudden we had so many goats I’m like, ‘Yeah, well, you guys better get to work,’ ” Timlake said.
‘Deadherds’ Take a Bite Out of Fire District’s Blackberries
KPFD found a cheaper, greener way to clear its overgrown Key Center property with goatscaping. more
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Forestry contractor Dan Wehmeier at a fuels reduction project in the Okanogan Highlands in September 2025.
The Barber of the KP: Making the Land Better
A logger walks, seeds, and feels the land, one job at a time. more
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What Came From the Closet, and a Spirit in the Garden
A Longbranch family fled their home after two supernatural encounters they couldn’t explain. more
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‘Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons For Our Own’
KP Reads: Eddie S Glaude Jr. uses Baldwin’s life and writings to examine the racial injustices that continue to plague us. more
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Open-grown Oregon white oaks have spreading crowns and long, gnarled branches, and can live 350 to 500 years.
Groves of Oregon White Oak, Past and Future
"In our rural community, on farms and homesteads and woodlots, we are all the time creating such landscapes of care." more
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Driving south on the improved highway just past today’s Key Center, May 1923.
The Story of the KP Highway, Part II
A two-part series on the history of the peninsula’s most important arterial. more
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The Peninsula Seahawks enter the 2026 season with a young roster under first-year head coach Tommi Gallucci. The Seahawks are looking to rebound from back-to-back losing seasons and bring "Purdy grit" back to the Peninsula gym.
New Coach Ready to Put Her Stamp on Peninsula Volleyball
First-year coach Tommi Gallucci takes over a young Seahawks team looking to bounce back from consecutive losing seasons. more
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Coach Clay Mauro and team with the Fish Bowl trophy.
Seahawks Rout Tides 37-8, Even Fish Bowl Rivalry
Peninsula seniors earned their first win over Gig Harbor as the Seahawks defense forced four interceptions. more
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