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Tracker Updates: Erden Eruç, Westbound Rower Around the World
Follow KP resident's heroic one-person-powered voyage more
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Naturalist's Notebook
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 … more
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Deck the Halls: When the KP Grew Holly
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. more
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Even Santa Claus needs a good old-fashioned salon treatment to get dolled up for Christmas.
Naughty or Nice, Santa Claus is Coming to Town
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. more
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The Heavenly Swedish Meatball
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 … more
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Mud-splattered KPMS students Venicia Robles.
Guided Mountain Biking for Local Teens Inspires More
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. more
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Founder of The Mustard Seed Project
I met Tom, my husband, back in ’81, and he already had this piece of property out here, and I came out here right away. I was a social worker in long-term care in Tacoma, and here would come … more
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Sonja Nesta of Lakebay won first place and $175 in prize money with “The Yellow Brick Kids” in the annual Scarecrow Contest. more on pages 10-11.
2021 Annual Scarecrow Contest
Sonja Nesta of Lakebay won first place and $175 in prize money with “The Yellow Brick Kids” in the annual Scarecrow Contest. Tina McKail, KP News more
The view from the shore of Filucy Bay Preserve.
Chasing Silence and Sound in Filucy Bay Preserve
As I work my way down a forested draw in Filucy Bay Preserve, tree frogs call. Ferns and logs guide me through a series of pinch points where deer have squeezed before me. more
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Erden Eruç rowing out of Waikiki Harbor Oct. 7
Wauna Man Resumes Solo Row From U.S. to Asia
Solo circumnavigator Erden Eruç, 60, of Wauna, resumed his second solo row across the Pacific Oct. 7 when he relaunched from Waikiki, Oahu, where he arrived Sept. 10 after an 80-day crossing from Crescent City, Calif. more
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The soup is on, but not without this winning stock.
The Secret to Great Stock
When I was young, growing up here on the Key Peninsula, I loved to spend hours in the farm kitchen with my mother. By sixth grade I helped almost every evening with dinner. Mom was a fantastic cook … more
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‘You Don’t Belong Here’ by Elizabeth Becker
As the former spouse of a Vietnam veteran, I did not think I would ever read another book about that war. For 16 years I absorbed everything I could find to understand the devastation Vietnam did … more
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Seed Saver
Diane Grant, who lives in Lakebay, harvested a tomato this year that she had never seen before. She loved the flavor and was afraid she might never find it again. Could she save the seeds and rest … more
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QB Jake Bice at work.
Seahawks Prevail in Epic Overtime Fish Bowl 43
The Peninsula High School Seahawks beat the Gig Harbor Tides 35-28 Sept. 17 at Roy Anderson Field in a stunning come-from-behind win for their sixth consecutive Fish Bowl victory. more
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Wandering Bands of Berry Hunters
Fall again. Heavy sunflower heads have fallen and the clouds of goldfinches that came for their seeds have scattered into the trees. Rain falls and rotting resumes. Down come the soggy stems of … more
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Mount Rainier or T’qo’bəd sometimes wears a “hat,” which meant to Native people that a weather change could be expected.
The Source of All Waters
Who among us has not been awestruck by the mystery and majesty of the mountain that seems to disappear and reappear at her discretion? That mountain, called Mount Rainier since 1792, when Captain … more
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The Newhouse triptych, Harbor Morning, 2018.
Sandy Newhouse on Lines, Shadows, Shapes and Stories
Painter Sandy Newhouse stood in the studio of her Vaughn Bay home, tapping an unfinished canvas heavy with layers of acrylic paint. more
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McDermott Point is KP’s Latest Conservation Project
The Pierce County Council voted to adopt the recommendations of the Citizens Advisory Board to the Conservation Futures Program to begin negotiating the purchase of conservation properties. more
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‘Something Wicked This Way Comes’
The bait is hard to resist but if you bite, you’ll be trapped in a sinister nightmare you hadn’t bargained for and from which you may never wake. more
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Green Corn Tamale Pie
In October 1981, I was napping on the hallway floor near a guest bathroom the morning after a pre-wedding function in the (to me) extremely foreign land of Arizona. I was 20ish and otherwise … more
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