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Plant french radish seeds in April and experience the joy of a delicious uprising.
Build Your Garden Now! Now, I Say! It Can’t Build Itself Even If It Wants To!
You have earth for the taking, full of everything a plant needs. more
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What America Ate (Even Before It Could Spell, Punctuate or Conjugate)
Just like a novel, reading cookbooks has been a lifelong love of mine. While my cookbook collection has diminished over the years, thanks in part to both the internet and a need to downsize, it is … more
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Hall Schmidt #14 congratulates Joshua Hinkel on his TD in Fish Bowl 43.
Ex-Prep Stars React to Conference Realignment; Fish Bowl Moves to Tacoma
Key Peninsula News spoke with former Peninsula and Gig Harbor High School student athletes about their opinions on recent changes in PSD athletics. more
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‘The Lost Upland: Stories of Southwestern France’
I no longer remember when I first encountered the poems of W.S. Merwin, but it was likely in some snooty magazine back in the 1980s I had no business reading. Once discovered, I sought out his poetry … more
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PHS junior Mira Sonnen is the first-ever girls wrestling state champion in school history.
State Champ Mira Sonnen Draws Strength From Memories
Mira Sonnen is in awe of high school wrestling at the Tacoma Dome. The junior 140-pounder on the Peninsula Seahawks girls wrestling team found a spot near the mat to take in the atmosphere of … more
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Tessa Booth is going for the gold with Girl Scouts.
High School Junior Writes Mental Health Manual for Peers
Tessa Booth is a 17-year-old junior at Peninsula High School preparing to publish her first book, a mental health manual, “You Are Not Alone" as the culmination for her Gold Award for Girl Scouts. more
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Early spring nettles spotted along the trail.
Nettles and Their Butterflies in a Frenetic Spring
Watch a nettle emerge from the spring soil and tell me it doesn’t remind you of a butterfly crawling from its chrysalis. more
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Hay stacking day. Joseph Easley in red shirt.
Local Family Builds Shelters for Moroccan Earthquake Victims
A church-sponsored trip to Morocco led the Easley family to decades of relief work in a country they grew to love. Their work is focused on building earthquake-proof housing for those in greatest need. more
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The bread is modest, but I am not.
Good Bread for Bad Cooks: It’s Not You, It’s Everything You’re Doing
As with most people who are good at eating, I also cook a bit. And like most of those people, there are a few things I cook well, more I do OK, and some I should never try again. more
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“There’s a lot of negative energy around running, so if we can show them at a young age that it can be fun, I feel like they’ll want to do it more.”
PHS Star Athlete Gives Elementary Kids a Running Start
The perennial top-10 finisher at the state cross-country state championships teaches students at Swiftwater Elementary the basics of running through fun activities and exposure to the sport. more
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Drone shot of the rare and mystical agarikon safely out of reach on an old growth fir.
Legendary 'Ghost Bread' Mushroom Discovered on the Key Peninsula
It was around New Year’s when Adam DeLeo made the discovery. Cabin fever propelled him into a local forest he had only visited once or twice and wanted to know better. more
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Peninsula High School Boys Lacrosse Co-Captains Elliot Gillam and Robby Akulschin during practice.
Peninsula Lacrosse Takes Aim at State Title
Co-captains Robby Akulschin and Elliot Gillam expect big things this spring from the Peninsula High School lacrosse team. more
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Blunk hopes to get a truckload of adaptive wheelchairs, take them to schools, and give students the experience of playing wheelchair basketball in PE classes.
Retired Paralympian Megan Blunk Returns to the Key Peninsula
Megan Blunk is Paralympic champion, taking home a gold medal in 2016, but her greatest victory is her triumph over a longstanding battle with depression. more
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Alena Tolmacheva, a refugee from Kramatorsk, with one of her five Dobermans.
Local Animal Rescuer Tom Bates Home From Ukraine
Tom Bates returned from three months shuttling supplies to frontline areas and getting abandoned animals out on his third trip to the war. more
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Metal Detectorist Seeks What’s Lost on the Key Peninsula
Ralph Drahos and his wife Arlene swallowed the anchor. That is to say, they gave up the sailing life they enjoyed for most of their lives together in exchange for an existence on dry land. more
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Head Coach Hannah Lekson, seen here in the Feb. 16. game against the Timberline Blazers, has led the Seahawks to the state tournament in both of her first two seasons.
Seahawks Girls Basketball Season Comes to a Close With a 49-39 Loss to Ridgeline
The No. 19-seed Peninsula Seahawks could not overcome a cold night of shooting from the field and the free throw line as they fell to the 14-seed Ridgeline Falcons. more
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PHS state champions at the Tacoma Dome.
Making History: Sonnen, Parker and Seahawks Girls Wrestling Team Win First-Ever State Title
For all those Peninsula High School trivia buffs out there: Who was the first-ever Seahawks girls wrestler to win a state championship? That answer and honor goes to Mira Sonnen. … more
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The Peninsula boys swim team made it to the podium for the first time in 10 years at the state meet.
Seahawks Swim Team Sees Success at State Meet
Peninsula junior Jonah Bergerson (100-yard backstroke) and sophomore Zachary Ruckle (1-meter diving) both took fourth place in their respective events and the Seahawks boys swim team finished in 16th … more
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Coach Hannah Lekson courtside last season.
PHS Girls Basketball Falls to Timberline, 61-50; One More Chance for State Today
The Peninsula girls basketball team lost to the Timberline Blazers, 61-50, in the fifth-place consolation game of the district 3/4 3A Girls Basketball Tournament. more
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Seahawks celebrate after their win.
Seahawks Girls Advance in District Tournament with 42-32 Win Over Mountain View
Kaylia Heidelberg scored a game-high 20 points and the Peninsula Seahawks girls basketball team beat the Mountain View Thunder (Vancouver), 42-32, at home to advance in the District 3/4 Girls … more
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