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After over 40 years practicing medicine on the Key Peninsula, Dr. William Roes is entering a phase of semi-retirement.
Starting Dec. 30, Roes will cut back to approximately two days a week …
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Krisa Bruemmer, KP News
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12/30/21
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Let’s take a ramble. Let’s head through this soggy pasture and aim for the woods.
Think of all we’ve seen in the last year on the KP, the encounters with deer and moths, the …
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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12/30/21
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When I was young, say about 65 years ago, our family enjoyed digging for razor clams on Washington’s beaches every time the tide was sufficiently low. In those days there were perhaps 30 brave …
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Brad Sherman
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12/30/21
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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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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 …
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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10/28/21
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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. Tina McKail, KP News
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10/28/21
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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.
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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10/28/21
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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.
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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10/28/21
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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 …
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Lori Deacon
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10/28/21
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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 …
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Maureen Reilly
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10/28/21
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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 …
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Sara Thompson, KP News
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10/28/21
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Painter Sandy Newhouse stood in the studio of her Vaughn Bay home, tapping an unfinished canvas heavy with layers of acrylic paint.
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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9/29/21
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People of the Key Peninsula love their orchards, as evidenced by the apple trees growing everywhere. Historically, most apples on the Key Peninsula were grown for private use.
Tim Kezele grew up …
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Sara Thompson, KP News
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9/29/21
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Cats of the Key
[Photo gallery]
Earlier in the year we thought it would be fun to run a collection of KP dog photos. That made a lot of dogs and their owners very happy, but it riled up the loyal opposition, the cat people. …
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Staff Report
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9/25/21
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Whenever we ask Dad what he wants for dinner on literally any occasion, the question is usually posed tongue-in-cheek because we know the answer. It’s never steak, salmon, or burgers, …
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Kamryn Minch, KP News
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5/26/21
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A commotion has been building outside. It has been building for days now. Some sort of forage fish is massing along the shoreline, and it has drawn a feeding frenzy of gulls, mergansers, cormorants, seals and eagles from miles around.
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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5/26/21
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