By now, Grace Bennett is an old hand at lizard keeping. She is 5 years old, and her pet for the last year has been a northern alligator lizard named Baraka.
Grace lives on a 5-acre farm near …
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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5/26/21
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After 34 years in the postal service, including eight as Vaughn postmaster, DeeDee Emmett will retire June 30 at “a very young 59-and-a-half” years old, she said.
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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5/26/21
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The summer of 1895 was a busy and exciting time for Edmund G. Edrington of Vaughn. All the parts of an idea he had been working on for a couple of years seemed to be coming together; it was time to form a company, raise the capital and make it happen.
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Joseph Pentheroudakis, KP News
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5/26/21
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His name still evokes fear, anger and admiration five decades after his murder. Alex Haley interviewed Malcolm X more than 50 times from 1962 to ’65, and the result was a book alive with the same intensity as their all-night talks about racism, protest and brutality that seem little changed since then.
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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5/26/21
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It’s summertime and berry season is upon us. Strawberries, raspberries, blueberries.
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Sara Thompson, KP News
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5/26/21
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Despite everything you’ve ever been told, it doesn’t take much to impress a woman, especially after she has become a mother.
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Kamryn Minch, KP News
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4/28/21
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Many of us went to school with a Shuggie Bain. Depending on what school you attended, there might be several pupils like him in each class.
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Maureen Reilly
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4/28/21
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A year ago, readers gave us their thoughts about COVID-19. This month, we asked some of the same readers how the pandemic has affected their lives.
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4/28/21
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The Peninsula School District opened its doors to the last of its online students in mid-March for those who wanted to return. Not everyone did.
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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4/28/21
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On the first day of spring over 60 degrees, I find a currant decked out with pink pendant blooms. It radiates a fragrance of heat, sweat and pollen.
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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4/28/21
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Dr. Van (Mimi) Chau began working as pediatrician in January at the Key Center Medical Center where her colleague, Dr. William Roes, said she is the first pediatrician ever to practice on the KP.
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Sara Thompson, KP News
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4/28/21
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RoxAnne Simon might be a relative newcomer to the Key Peninsula by the standards of some old timers, but that hasn’t stopped her from having a big impact on the community.
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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4/28/21
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Tomatoes. For some, the memory of the first bite of a garden-grown vine-ripened tomato ranks right up there with a first kiss. Or the birth of a child.
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Sara Thompson, KP News
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4/28/21
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On a slanting boardwalk over a forested swamp, I pause. It’s not just Pacific wrens singing these days. Song sparrows and towhees fire off their songs. Salmonberry thickets stand with their …
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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3/31/21
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On the morning of April 22, 2021, Earth Day, Erden Eruç of Wauna, 59, plans to row a boat through San Francisco’s Golden Gate all the way to Hong Kong alone. It will be the first nonstop …
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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3/31/21
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For many a practical Key Peninsula gardener, this is the time to focus on the vegetable garden —planting seeds, nurturing starts — but this is also a time when the more fanciful aspects …
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Sara Thompson, KP News
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3/31/21
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The main branch of the New York City library at Fifth Avenue straddling 41st and 42nd Streets is one of the most famous public temples of knowledge in the United States. Even if you’re just a …
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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3/31/21
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Food is love. Food is history. Food is a story.
Most families have recipes passed down from preceding generations. It’s not because they are gourmet or have exotic ingredients; they can be …
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Ann-Marie Ugles
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3/31/21
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Ed Bressette wants to make his little corner of the world a better place. That desire made him a lifelong learner. It led him to a career at the YMCA. It is why he’s fascinated by alternative …
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Sara Thompson, KP News
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3/31/21
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Herb Clippert remembers coming to the Renaissance Faire on the property that is now Gateway Park. When he saw earth-moving equipment in 2017, he “didn’t know what it would turn out to be.”
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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2/24/21
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