Using science to limit slug damage. Slugs are different things to different people: a gardener’s nightmare, a forest worker breaking down decomposing forest vegetation, …
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Sara Thompson, KP News
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5/29/20
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Coyotes are singing on the peninsula. They wake me in the wee hours. My mind needs a good minute or two to figure out if the eerie sounds
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Chris Rurik, Special to the KP News
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5/29/20
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The Asian giant hornet, an invasive species with a craving for honey bees, has been spotted in northwestern Washington.
A winged giant has found its way to Washington …
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Caleb Galbreath, KP News
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5/29/20
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“A Journal of the Plague Year,” Daniel Defoe’s short book about the 1665 outbreak in London of what is believed to have been bubonic plague, is never a comforting read; it is even less so in these times of a global pandemic.
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Joseph Pentheroudakis, KP News
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5/29/20
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On my cookbook shelf sits a copy of a Key Peninsula Civic Center community cookbook from 1977. It is spiral-bound with plastic, and just a look at the sans serif font feels …
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Anna Brones
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5/29/20
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Father, husband, coach and a driving force behind the enduring …
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Ted Olinger and Lisa Bryan, KP News
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5/29/20
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The novel coronavirus is inspiring more people to grow their own fresh veggies this spring. Square foot …
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Sara Thompson, KP News
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5/1/20
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Springtime comes to the peninsula. The soil warms and bird songs light up the mornings. In the forest you no longer tramp recklessly …
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Chris Rurik, Special to the KP News
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5/1/20
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Flour. Water. Salt. Yeast. These are the basic ingredients of bread dough. (It’s also the title of an excellent cookbook). When I was growing up, bread baking was part of my …
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Barbara Van Bogart
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5/1/20
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Walk the peninsula’s beaches this time of year and you won’t find much of a high tide line. Gone are the mounds of seaweed, the …
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Chris Rurik, Special to the KP News
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4/30/20
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A drop in demand due to closure of the Chinese market adds to the downturn for Washington shellfish growers due to trade war tariffs.
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Sara Thompson, KP News
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3/27/20
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After a year as pastor of Key Peninsula Lutheran Church, Anna Bonaro has gained new …
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Matthew Dean, KP News
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3/27/20
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Martha and Steven Konicek never planned to own a tree farm. But in 2017 their neighbor clear-cut 40 acres and considered selling a nearby 40-acre parcel, land
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Sara Thompson, KP News
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3/27/20
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Key Peninsula Middle School seventh grader James McCourt plays so many instruments it took a while for him and his mom, Eryn McCourt, to list them all.
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Krisa Bruemmer, KP News
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3/27/20
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A desire for fresh eggs ignited a passion for raising chickens. Pets hold a …
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Caleb Galbreath, KP News
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3/27/20
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The community of Northwest archivists, historians, genealogists and writers as well as many ordinary citizens were shocked at …
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Joseph Pentheroudakis, KP News
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3/27/20
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Our daily lives are drastically changing as the COVID-19 pandemic spreads across the country. While hunkered down at home as our food supplies dwindle, the idea of grocery shopping …
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Ann-Marie Ugles
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3/27/20
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While the Key Peninsula’s hillsides collapse under rain that reveals how we’re all just sitting on a …
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Chris Rurik, Special to the KP News
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3/1/20
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When I first moved to Louisiana I was often asked where I lived. A kind but accurate coworker stated “in her car — but she gets her mail in New Orleans.” I was working on a …
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Patty Ghiossi
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3/1/20
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I don’t remember what time it was, if I ever knew, but I do remember sitting at the bar holding up a guy I’d never seen before who’d draped his …
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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3/1/20
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