It was late one Christmas Eve and I was sharing a piano bench with some guy I thought was my husband. He was playing away and the assembled company, back when company could assemble, were all singing …
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Katrina Herringbottom
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12/30/20
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I sit in a stand of trees, screened by filbert leaves, on the edge of a field in the woods. The earth is damp and the air stirs restlessly. It’s that time of year when buck black-tailed deer, normally nocturnal, move recklessly, their necks swollen and their antlers crusted with the bark of saplings. I have come to watch them.
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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12/2/20
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Local students Angelina Cruz and Kyleigh Helland each won first place in the Pierce County Library System’s 24th annual Our Own Expressions Teen Writing & Art Contest, which celebrates the creative visions and voices of Pierce County youth and awards winners cash prizes and publication.
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Krisa Bruemmer, KP News
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12/2/20
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For some, retirement is all about rest and relaxation. Others struggle with their identify after leaving a lifelong career. For Sara Thompson, it’s the freedom to pour herself into her passions.
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Caleb Galbreath, KP News
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12/2/20
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This year has not been easy. A pandemic. Unprecedented partisan divisions. And now a holiday season, already fraught for many, made more complicated by COVID-related restrictions. Not to mention that the Pacific Northwest is deep in the dark days of winter. None of this bodes well for mental health.
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Sara Thompson, KP News
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12/2/20
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Two members of Peninsula High School’s junior class, Indigo Clark and Issabella Marchio, qualified for the All-Nationals Mixed Choir, part of the National Association for Music Education’s All-National Honors Ensembles (ANHE) program. They are the first PHS students to be accepted.
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Krisa Bruemmer, KP News
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12/2/20
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When you look up a word in the dictionary, do you end up spending half an hour looking up 20 other words? Psychologists have a clinical term for this. You could look it up.
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Dan Clouse
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12/2/20
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While 2020 will not be a year known for extraordinary holiday parties, there is every reason to step out of our comfort zones and try extraordinary new recipes. With all of us spending more time at …
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Lori Zeigler & Barbara Van Bogart
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12/2/20
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It seems an appropriate season to revisit the work of an author who wanted nothing but that his readers recognize the unexpected grace in people unlike themselves and offer them an unfamiliar mercy.
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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10/29/20
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The title comes from Ecclesiasticus 44:1 in the Old Testament, part of the Apocrypha or “Books which are not regarded as equal to the holy scriptures, and yet are profitable and good to …
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10/29/20
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I am rather new to the wonderful hummingbird cake, first created in Jamaica, where it was originally called the Doctor Bird cake (named after the island’s national bird).
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Barbara Van Bogart
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10/29/20
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Last month the silver salmon came to Glen Cove. Each year their arrival roughly coincides with the first great rainfalls of autumn, when the Pacific Ocean reminds us of its presence by sending us waves of wind and fog and darkness — and salmon.
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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10/29/20
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The year 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the passing of the 19th amendment, a change to the Constitution of the United States recognizing and proclaiming the right to vote for women.
It is …
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Anna Brones, Special to KP News
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10/1/20
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A descendant of old timers Art and Hazel Fenton, who purchased 240 acres in the Minter area in 1939, Kolby Asbra has deep roots on the Key Peninsula.
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Krisa Bruemmer, KP News
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10/1/20
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Key Peninsula writer and teacher Alice Kinerk has self-published her first full-length novel.
“The Octopus Under the Bridge” follows the adventures of Jay, a 14-year-old who lives in a …
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Matthew Dean, KP News
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10/1/20
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One of the joys of my childhood was caramel apples — the sticky sweet caramel balanced by a crisp and juicy apple. Preceded in history by the bright red cinnamon-flavored candied apple, …
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Tim Heitzman, KP News
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10/1/20
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McMicken Island, a few hundred feet from Harstine Island to the west of the Key Peninsula, is a favorite destination for area boaters and kayakers. One of about 40 marine state parks in Washington, …
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Joseph Pentheroudakis, KP News
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10/1/20
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“The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914” was a bestseller when it was published by historian Barbara Tuchman in 1966. Drawn from a collection of lengthy essays …
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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10/1/20
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Vaughn Elementary School has a new principal, Abbie Barabe (pronounced “bear-a-bee”), with an extensive background in the field of elementary education.
After earning her …
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Krisa Bruemmer, KP News
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8/27/20
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A dolphin has been putting on a show around the southern tip of the Key Peninsula.
“The acrobatics I witnessed were incredible and unlike anything else outside of Sea World,” said …
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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8/27/20
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