I was out working in the garden the other day (what else is new?), crawling under some rhododendrons, thankful it’s not yet spider web season, and gently scraping my hand rake along the top …
more
Kamryn Minch
|
4/26/22
|
Since time immemorial, writers in Russia have had the most forceful, penetrating and far-reaching responses to what was happening in their country — for those willing to listen, …
more
José Alaniz
|
4/26/22
|
Art is an extraordinary bridge capable of transcending cultural divides. Not everyone is a poet, a sculptor, a dancer or musician. Cooking, however, is a performance art practiced daily around the …
more
Lisa Bryan, KP News
|
3/31/22
|
At last, I find a frog. It is spread-eagled in the shallow water like a lost toy. Its throat floats before it as round and sheer as a soap bubble, pushing its head up. It looks almost pathetic as it …
more
Chris Rurik, KP News
|
3/31/22
|
Many times over the last 18-plus years I have wondered why I feel so much at home and so contented on the Key Peninsula. Certainly, there are many similarities to Scotland but that really …
more
Maureen Riley
|
3/31/22
|
While drivers rattle the Purdy bridge in cars and trucks, fly fishers often stand thigh deep in saltwater below at the mouth of the Burley Lagoon, their attention fixed on a far different …
more
Chris Rurik, KP News
|
3/31/22
|
Laura Harbaugh always wanted to be an artist.
Her father worked as professional photographer and her mother worked for the county as a conservationist, racing to protect heritage farmland in the …
more
Lisa Bryan, KP News
|
3/31/22
|
Follow KP resident's heroic one-person-powered voyage
more
Ted Olinger, KP News
|
3/27/22
|
Solo circumnavigator Erden Eruç, 60, of Wauna, made landfall on Guam Feb. 12 after 208 days rowing from California by way of Oahu on his second human-powered trip around the world. He has …
more
Ted Olinger, KP News
|
2/28/22
|
Agates and oysters. A clear tide. Stories.
I am south of Driftwood Annie’s point, strolling Pitt Passage with two veteran beach walkers. The going is wonderfully slow.
“It …
more
Chris Rurik, KP News
|
2/28/22
|
Nearly 20 years after suffering a debilitating stroke, Scott Vande Zande of Longbranch devotes his time to sharing his golden retriever Ginger, a Pet Partners therapy dog, with others. Each week they …
more
Krisa Bruemmer. KP News
|
2/28/22
|
When you think of Saint Patrick’s Day, you’re thinking shamrocks, right? Along with pinching, funny little green plastic hats, the beer in your cup and the Chicago River, both dyed green, …
more
Dan Clouse
|
2/28/22
|
Some dirty comic book about the Holocaust got banned from the eighth grade English Language Arts curriculum by the McMinn County School Board in southeast Tennessee Jan. 10, because the book has cuss …
more
José Alaniz, KP News
|
2/28/22
|
All this rain has flooded the nearby pastures. You know your pond has just about become a lake when the regular dabblers like mallards and wigeons are joined by diving …
more
Chris Rurik, KP News
|
1/27/22
|
Nate Daniel, executive director of Great Peninsula Conservancy, considers himself a syrup hobbyist. His introduction to tapping maple trees came the year he worked at a University of Rhode …
more
Lisa Bryan, KP News
|
1/27/22
|
The origins of Valentine’s Day are murky, lost in the annals of history. One theory is it commemorated the anniversary of the death of Saint Valentine, somewhere around 270 AD. Another theory …
more
Barbara Van Bogart
|
1/27/22
|
In the woods near Penrose Point State Park, Rod Collen and his fiancée Shannon Garrett have spent the last two years building a 900-square-foot mushroom-shaped cabin.
They purchased a …
more
Krisa Bruemmer, KP News
|
1/27/22
|
One of the highest tides of 2022 was predicted for just after sunrise Friday, Jan 7. Daylight revealed a tide two feet higher than the prediction. Seawater filled the parking lot of Purdy’s …
more
Chris Rurik, KP News
|
1/27/22
|
Key Center can be a busy place, and unless one is an old-timer or paying close attention it’s easy to miss the blue house on the west side of the road, on a slope between Sunnycrest Nursery and …
more
Joseph Pentheroudakis, KP News
|
12/30/21
|
Some of my teenaged relatives enlisted after 9/11.
One became a Marine and deployed to Afghanistan. He did convoy duty or was behind the wire, on base. When he came home, he had nothing but …
more
Ted Olinger, KP News
|
12/30/21
|
UNDERWRITTEN BY NEWSMATCH/MIAMI FOUNDATION, THE ANGEL GUILD, ROTARY CLUB OF GIG HARBOR, ADVERTISERS, DONORS AND PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT LOCAL, INDEPENDENT NONPROFIT NEWS