Q: What’s with the hummingbirds in January? Are they dive-bombing? I thought the high-pitch chirp was a squirrel, but those are hummingbirds?
— Megan Schowalter, Longbranch
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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3/1/23
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Sometime around Christmas 2021, Evergreen Elementary School second-grader Brayden VanderDoes lost his appetite.
Then he began to vomit. Every day.
In the coming weeks he lost his energy and …
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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3/1/23
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In early December 2016, Washington State Rep. Michelle Caldier (R-26th) was awakened by a crushing pain on the side of her head. She suddenly lost vision in her left eye from acute glaucoma, a …
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Sara Thompson, KP News
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3/1/23
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Longtime KP booster Carolyn Wiley of Longbranch was honored with a Rotary Star Award Feb. 3 at the 11th annual dinner ceremony presented by the local Gig Harbor Rotary Clubs.
Each Gig Harbor …
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Sara Thompson, KP News
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3/1/23
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For most people on the Key Peninsula, Himalayan blackberry bushes are a minor nuisance. For Farrell and Laurie Timlake, they were a major problem …
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Eddie Macsalka, KP News
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3/1/23
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Leiston Stoddard was recently named to the U.S. Youth Soccer National Select team …
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Eddie Macsalka, KP News
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3/1/23
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Late last fall I read that one of my favorite directors, Noah Baumbach, had written and directed a movie based on the novel “White Noise” by Don DeLillo from the 1980s. I read the book …
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Sara Thompson, KP News
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3/1/23
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On the Key Peninsula of old, you could hire a “beeliner” …
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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3/1/23
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This time of year, the morning sun enters the house at the perfect angle to shine light on how much dust and cobwebs have accumulated in the living room, signaling that spring is almost …
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Kamryn Minch
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3/1/23
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The Key Peninsula Historical Society was awarded a $35,000 Pierce County Historic Preservation grant Jan. 31 after being ranked No. 1 on the county project list for its ongoing restoration of the …
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Lisa Bryan, KP News
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3/1/23
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Sara Thompson, KP News
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2/1/23
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Valentine’s Day is fast approaching and the need to do something special for the person that adds light into your life can be overwhelming. You love them, and every year you feel like you must …
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Ann-Marie Ugles
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2/1/23
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In 1986, an 18-year-old white woman named Ronda Morrison was murdered during an apparent sexual assault at the dry cleaners where she worked in Monroeville, Alabama. The community was stunned but …
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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2/1/23
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Visitors pass through the Key Peninsula and notice only our impressive trees. Those who know the terrain well know how much can be concealed here.
Camouflaged critters exploit psychology as …
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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2/1/23
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A shoreline summer camp, the former site of an iconic lighthouse, a working sheep farm and over 1,000 feet of mainstem Minter Creek are among seven properties that two local land trusts worked to …
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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2/1/23
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12/28/22
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Ed Gilkison is a creature of habit.
The 67-year-old has lived in the same Lakebay area since 1966. He starts every morning with a cup of percolated Folgers coffee. He regularly digs through shoe …
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Eddie Macsalka, KP News
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12/28/22
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A robin pulls a worm from the lawn. A brief tension, released, and with a few tosses of the robin’s head the worm is gone.
Dawn on New Year’s Day. It’s my first bird of the year. …
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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12/28/22
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In “Saving Us,” Katharine Hayhoe suggests that the most important thing any of us can do to fight climate change is to discuss it with others.
She admits it can be hard to have a …
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Richard Gelinas
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12/28/22
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I first encountered torta rustica at the Columbia City Bakery, located in my old Seattle neighborhood. In the pre-pandemic days, this was one of the items they offered by the piece. With a crust made …
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Sara Thompson, KP News
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12/28/22
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