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Mustard Seed Begins Building First Home for KP Elders
After 15 years of planning, working and fundraising, The Mustard Seed Project broke ground Oct. 23 for the first assisted- living home for elders on the Key Peninsula. more
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KP Partnership for a Healthy Community Goes Independent
As the Key Peninsula Partnership for a Healthy Community approaches its 6-year anniversary under the leadership of executive directors Ben and Susan Paganelli, the organization has filed for its own 501(c)(3) nonprofit status. more
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KP Community Council Faces Funding Crisis
For the first time since 2017 the Key Peninsula Community Council will no longer have a paid office manager and will depend on volunteers to keep the office in the Key Center Corral open. more
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Eagle Scout Luke Fritsch.
Flag-Flying Boy Scout Earns Eagle Scout Badge
What does it take to become an Eagle Scout? Between earning at least 21 merit badges and demonstrating scout spirit and leadership within the troop, the journey can take up to six years to … more
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Roxanne Simon.
RoxAnne Simon Is Paying It Forward on the KP
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. more
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New cedar railing for the ADA ramp on the 100-year-old building.
KP Community Services Puts $100K County Grant to Work
The Key Peninsula Community Services building in Home is a bit of a head-turner these days. Exciting changes are in the works inside and out for the nearly 100-year-old structure, home to the former Lakebay Elementary School until the 1940s. more
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CISP Site Coordinator Sammi Feldman loads food at Key Peninsula Middle School.
Local Groups and Schools Respond to Pandemic
Communities in Schools of Peninsula, whose mission is to identify at-risk students and surround them with a community of support, has been serving students on the Key Peninsula and in Gig Harbor for nearly two decades. When the pandemic closed schools in March 2020, the organization had to adjust quickly. more
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Lives have been saved by signs posted by the coalition on the Tacoma Narrows Bridge and in local parks.
Local Group Combats Suicide in Pandemic
The Gig Harbor-Key Peninsula Suicide Prevention Coalition was formed in 2012 after two local teens died by suicide in close succession. The coalition has since developed programs to support survivors and their loved ones and to train for prevention. more
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Changing of the Guard at KP Community Council
Chuck West of Lakebay, who served three previous terms as president, was again elected president of the Key Peninsula Community Council by a vote of its seated 2021 directors during its regular meeting Dec. 9 via Zoom. more
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Many hands make light work as FB4K volunteers sort, pack and load food into waiting cars.
Backpacks for Kids Steps Up in Time of Need
Food Backpacks 4 Kids, now just over a decade old, transformed during the pandemic. In a matter of months, the organization more than doubled the amount of food going to families. more
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KP Bischoff Food Bank Relocates
KP Bischoff Food Bank was back in operation Saturday, Dec. 19. at its new location at 12402 134th Avenue NW at the corner of the Key Peninsula Highway after a sudden and exhausting move. more
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Key Medical Center Plans for New Owner
The doctor’s office on the hill above Key Center, where generations of Key Peninsula families have received medical care, is about to have new management. more
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KP Bischoff Food Bank Forced to Move
Key Peninsula Bischoff Food Bank must vacate its current location at 1916 Key Peninsula Highway NW, having outlasted its welcome on the rental property it has called home since June 2013 based on a verbal agreement with the late Jim Solberg to pay $800 a month in rent. more
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Key Peninsula News Wins 14 Statewide ‘Better Newspaper’ Awards
For the third consecutive year, the Key Peninsula News won top honors for writing, photography and advertising in the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association’s 2020 Better Newspaper Contest, held Oct. 9. more
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Hope Recovery Center Won’t Build on KP
The five-year dream of building a residential addiction treatment center on the Key Peninsula ended in August when the nonprofit Hope Recovery Center board of directors withdrew its application for a conditional use permit. more
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African choir to visit KP this month
Staff Report On Tuesday, March 18, the Watoto Children’s Choir will be bringing the sights and sounds of Uganda to the Key Peninsula. The concert, sponsored by Lakebay Community Church with … more
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Citizen of the Year celebrates volunteer leaders
Irene Torres, KP News Volunteers. They are everywhere on the Key Peninsula. Usually, one or two or three at a time, they seem nearly invisible to the casual observer. But not so on a recent … more
Spotlight on Camp Stand By Me
Danna Webster, KP News Deep in the heart of Vaughn Bay lies a little piece of paradise called Camp Stand By Me. It is there to enjoy for the Key Peninsula community when it is not filled with … more
Planned Gig Harbor hospital needs community support
Irene Torres, KP News Franciscan representatives share plans at Key Pen meeting If the show of support at the Key Peninsula Civic Center on Oct. 30 was any indication, the new hospital in Gig … more
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