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My mother-in-law Edna was a wonderful cook, reigning supreme in the kitchen. She excelled at making pickles (and pies, but that’s for another column at another time). Her recipes, handed down …
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Barbara Van Bogart
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8/27/20
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For some, tie-dye never died. It flowed on through the decades after Woodstock as an everlasting symbol of counterculture, peace and love, and the backdrop for the Grateful Dead Bears. Vivid, …
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Krisa Bruemmer, KP News
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8/27/20
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Been thinking about bats. I’ve been going out on the beach after dusk to spend time with them. As a kid, I threw rocks and watched them pick up my projectiles with their echolocation. They …
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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8/6/20
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Theresa Gano has been a rural mail carrier on the Key Peninsula for 23 years. What started out as a part-time job while tutoring students and raising her three daughters developed into a lifelong …
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Megan Schowalter, KP News
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8/6/20
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When feeling stressed, as a lot of us are these days, many turn to favorite comfort foods, like grilled cheese and tomato soup, mashed potatoes and gravy, fried chicken. Mine is macaroni and cheese, …
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Kace Ugles
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7/30/20
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Sometime in 1987, I think, I accidentally got to hear Toni Morrison read at a private gathering.
I was a neophyte assistant at a large publisher in New York City. A sympathetic editor had offered …
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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7/30/20
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The list of plants that can harm you, your child or your pet is enough to strike terror into any heart. Hemlock was famously used to execute Socrates. Deadly nightshade, mistaken for edible berries, …
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Sara Thompson, KP News
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7/30/20
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It is perhaps the most fitting legacy of the 19th century utopian, …
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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7/1/19
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My life used to be perfect, but then I went sailing. I was young, single, and a manager in a big company in San Francisco. There was this person I didn’t like in my …
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Katrina Herringbottom
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7/1/19
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More than once, a dinner guest at our house has said, “That was the best turkey–chicken–pork I’ve ever tasted,” which is wonderful to hear. I think the guests may have …
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Richard Gelinas
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6/1/19
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If only one could have floated on the scented air of that crisp fall evening now so distant, riding the smells of baking salmon and burning popcorn through clouds of green and blue hairspray. There …
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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11/9/09
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If only one could have floated on the scented air of that crisp fall …
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TED OLINGER, KP NEWS
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11/1/09
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Chuck Kraft uses techniques from Parelli Natural Horsemanship to train problem horses and help them become role models. Photo by Ted Olinger, KP News
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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9/1/09
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Hugh McMillan, KP News
In keeping with the traditions that made Volunteer Park the apple of Key Peninsula’s eye, volunteers again turned out to build its latest “sports center,” the long …
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8/1/07
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Rodika Tollefson, KP News
Key Pen youngsters will have the opportunity to try out their skateboards by the end of summer at a brand new, local skate park. Planning of the facility is well …
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4/1/07
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Staff Profile for Meredith Browand
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Meredith Browand
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10/22/05
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Irene Torres, KP News
Volunteers. They are everywhere on the Key Peninsula. Usually, one or two or three at a time, they seem nearly invisible to the casual observer. But not so on a recent …
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4/1/04
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Everybody has to have a museum, Fred Haley announced recently, as he unlocked the door to his own— a roomy outbuilding nestled among trees on his Lakebay …
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Rodika Tollefson, KP News
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2/1/04
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Chuck and Sharon West were looking for an investment property. An old, rundown house in Glen Cove that they knew had historic significance looked like the perfect …
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1/1/04
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Colleen Slater, KP News
Elsie Olson becomes a centenarian on Jan. 9.
Her life and the world around her has changed a lot in 100 years, and she has kept pace with much of it.
Born in …
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Colleen Slater, KP News
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1/1/04
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