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Connor Burton, No. 3, leads the Seahawk charge onto the field.
Gig Harbor Wins 45th Annual Fish Bowl 21-20
After a seven-year drought, the Tides overcame a 14-0 halftime deficit to win the Fish Bowl for the first time since 2015. more
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Cooper Leavengood and Elektra Higgins.
Higgins, Leavengood Set the Pace for Seahawks XC Teams
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 … more
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Doug MacLeod on stage in Europe.
Bluesman Doug MacLeod Returns to Play the KP Oct. 4
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 … more
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AmeriCorps Volunteer Darnell Crumity of Tacoma at work in the shop.
AmeriCorps Members Leave Their Mark on Sound View Camp
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 … more
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Tom Bates came home with a refugee, a street cat named Bobby Reznick. “His favorite toy is a lightbulb.”
Local Rescue Volunteer to Return to Ukraine for Third Time
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 … more
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“The webs of summer seem to know just where I’ll be.”
Weather: Boring Small Talk or a Unifying Language That Will Save Us All?
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 … more
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Triple threat (l to r): Preston “White Beckett” (for his hair), Peyton “Big Beckett,” and Paxton “Mean Beckett.”
The Brothers Beckett: Local Wrestlers Earn National Recognition
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, … more
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Though rare, barred owls are known to swoop on people.
Barred Owls and Ant Marathons
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. … more
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Whatever History Has Forgotten, Seattle Put His People First
A year ago in September, I wrote about a few books in these pages that I thought our community might read and asked for suggestions for those many titles I certainly missed. One that came in … more
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The most familiar sight of all: crossing the Purdy Bridge and coming home to Key Peninsula.
Fiber Arts Show to Feature Margo Macdonald
Margo Macdonald’s art is rooted in her experience of place, a quality that will be on display at this year’s 16th annual Fiber Arts Show. Macdonald, a Vaughn painter and weaver with deep … more
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Artist Gordan Meyers and his birdhouses.
The 2023 Key Peninsula Art Walk Marches on for Eighth Year
Clear skies and warm sunshine welcomed residents of the Key Peninsula to the eighth annual Key Center Art Walk Wednesday evening, Aug. 2. Sponsored by the Two Waters Arts Alliance, the Art Walk … more
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Teaching An Old Dog New Tricks Was Easier Than I Thought
I am a cook who generally stays in her lane — keeping with the old tried and true recipes that have held me in good stead for decades, continue to work well, and have become second nature to … more
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Volunteers (l to r), Diane Jackman (seated), Joe Dervaes, Frank Shirley, Don Young, Ken Wassum, Bart Wolfe, Paul Michaels, Rick Thompson, Judy Mills (seated).
KP Historical Society Receives Major Grant for Restoration
The Vaughn Library Hall restoration project is on track for completion within its five-year plan thanks to an $83,000 grant from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust received by the Key Peninsula … more
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Mary McGriff with the only photo she has of herself from age 14.
The Heart of a Survivor: From Sorrow Comes Splendor
Fourteen years ago Mary McGriff was exhausted. Tired after more than three decades of powering through excruciating pain, bottling all her pent-up anger, hanging on to vengeful hatred and battling … more
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A family portrait with siblings (left to right) Inez, Lenora, Wayne, Melvin, Cecil and Phyllis with parents Emil and Katie.
The Extraordinary Life of KP Stalwart Phyllis Henry
Born in 1931, Phyllis Henry was one of six children raised on the family farm in rural Iowa. Her education began in a one-room schoolhouse. She had one friend, Edna. They walked to school or took the … more
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“Sea Coast and Interior Harbors of Washington,” 1888 edition (detail).
Of Mayo, Joe and Occam, and Other Names on Your KP Map
When Rear Admiral Henry Thomas Mayo (1856-1937) announced his retirement from the U.S. Navy Dec. 10, 1920, after 47 years of service, the news made the papers from his native Burlington, Vermont, to … more
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Bryce Hoover at home with one of his Fortnite “skins.”
KPMS Gamer Works on Balance During Summer Break
Bryce Hoover craves competition. The 13-year-old incoming eighth-grader at Key Peninsula Middle School likes being on the baseball and football fields. He’ll even try to out-sing everyone … more
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The great golden digger wasp (Sphex ichneumoneus) a large gentle species that pollinates flowers, catches grasshoppers and aerates soil by digging.
A Journey Through the Many Worlds of Wasps
It is a joy to come across a wasp like this. In the matted thick grass where my pasture will flood in winter, it dances along the stalks, wings flashing, blue-black body orienting this way and that. … more
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Erden Eruç rowing out of Honolulu in 2021.
Around the World Alone — Again — This Time by Sail
Once you become the first person to circumnavigate the globe alone under your own power — 41,196 miles of rowing solo across the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic oceans, … more
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Shelling peas waiting for something special. And waiting. Still waiting. Hello?
The Art of Eating from the Garden
I love my garden, but sometimes it makes me feel like I’m a contestant on one of those cooking shows where amateur chefs are given a basket of incompatible ingredients and have to make a … more
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