After a seven-year drought, the Tides overcame a 14-0 halftime deficit to win the Fish Bowl for the first time since 2015.
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Eddie Macsalka, KP News
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9/16/23
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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 …
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Eddie Macsalka
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8/30/23
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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 …
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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8/30/23
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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 …
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Eddie Macsalka, KP News
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8/30/23
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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 …
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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8/30/23
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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 …
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Kamryn Minch
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8/30/23
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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, …
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Eddie Macsalka, KP News
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8/30/23
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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. …
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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8/30/23
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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 …
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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8/30/23
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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 …
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Sara Thompson, KP News
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8/30/23
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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 …
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Lauren Trench, KP News
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8/30/23
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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 …
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Barbara Van Bogart
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8/30/23
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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 …
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Vicki Biggs, KP News
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8/30/23
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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 …
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Eddie Macsalka, KP News
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8/2/23
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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 …
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Lisa Bryan, KP News
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8/2/23
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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 …
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Joseph Pentheroudakis, KP News
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8/2/23
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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 …
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Eddie Macsalka, KP News
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8/2/23
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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. …
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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8/2/23
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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, …
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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8/2/23
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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 …
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Kamryn Minch
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8/2/23
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