The month of May is when the garden finally starts to look like a garden. The seeds I sowed two to four weeks before the last frost date have finally sprouted and the transplants of lettuce and kale …
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Kamryn Minch
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4/27/23
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While the calendar tells us summer is still a little way off, it’s never too early to plan ahead for the warm days we know are surely coming. Thoughts of picnics, barbecues and spur of …
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Barbara Van Bogart
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4/27/23
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Do you know what nonbinary means? If you don’t care to know, do you think others should have the opportunity to read about it if they so choose, like at a library? What if …
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José Alaniz
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4/27/23
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The wren is basically a mouse. It weaves through ferns. Then it appears on a stump not 10 feet away. It glances at us and, without a second thought, goes about its inspection of the stump’s …
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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4/27/23
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Marcia Harris of Longbranch received the 36th Key Peninsula Lions Club Citizen of the Year Award during a ceremony and celebration at the KP Civic Center March 25 for her decades of service to the …
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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4/27/23
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Hailey Ruckle isn’t afraid to admit it: School isn’t easy for her. She has a tough time reading. Big classrooms make her nervous. She doesn’t like when …
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Eddie Macsalka, KP News
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4/27/23
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Besides the occasional sound of plastic hitting a metal chain, Volunteer Park is quiet on an early Friday afternoon.
“Look, disc golfers are the only ones here when there’s no baseball …
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Eddie Macsalka, KP News
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3/29/23
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Jennifer Buys quickly deflected all questions about her.
As her team prepared for a tournament, the Peninsula High School Unified Basketball coach made sure the focus was on her team. Her …
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Eddie Macsalka, KP News
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3/29/23
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Wauna resident Erden Eruç, 61, ended his quest to complete his second human-powered solo circumnavigation March 15 in the Philippines …
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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3/29/23
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One of the greatest summers of my life was spent in New York City in 1986. I had worked my way through a prestigious university with honors, survived a year of lymphoma, and landed my dream job …
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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3/29/23
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If you want to feel like a shrimp in a kelp forest, a good place to start is in a real forest on a windy day, your back on a log, trees flexing like grasses above you, the sky crowded with clouds …
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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3/29/23
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Those of us who cook often find ideas for new recipes in a myriad of ways. Whether it is a classic food combination used in unusual ways, a fusion of two cultures or a mashup of family favorites …
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Ann-Marie Ugles and Evie Bothwell
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3/29/23
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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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