The banner stretched over Key Center announcing the annual scarecrow contest, along with a fresh crop of scarecrows lining the road, brought a big smile to my face. For an instant I wanted to close …
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Lisa Bryan, Executive Editor
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9/29/21
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Some thoughts as an offering to my new neighbors: Yes, I’m another transplant with something to say about our glorious home on the Puget Sound. I offer them in the conviction that sometimes …
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Jack Dunne
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9/29/21
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Sometime in 1988, I think, I was an editorial assistant at G.P. Putnam’s Sons in midtown Manhattan when I happened to come out of the elevator to find Kurt Vonnegut trying to get past the …
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Ted Olinger
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9/29/21
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Something unexpected happened this summer: I stopped refilling my bird feeders.
I’ve been keeping my backyard feeders stocked for years, only missing a day or two now and then. Nothing but …
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Joseph Pentheroudakis
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9/29/21
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“Look here,” my wife said, pulling back the thick vines growing in our backyard garden. I saw a flash of red deep in the shadows. Reaching in, I gave a gentle tug and pulled out our first …
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Dan Whitmarsh
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9/29/21
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Back in March of 2020, I wrote a column here called “Moving to Reduce Medical Expenses” where I stated that my wife and I were going to be moving to Portugal, the cost of medical bills …
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Rob Vajko
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9/29/21
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As a Vaughn resident, I urge my neighbors to vote for Jennifer Butler for the Peninsula School District Board of Directors.
Jennifer’s commitment to representing the whole community and …
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9/29/21
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It has been an honor to serve on the Peninsula School Board these past eight years. I have served as vice president for four years, and I am currently board president.
We often learn the most …
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9/29/21
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A few friends and I go swimming early in the morning in Von Geldern Cove. We’d done it a dozen times already this summer, I was getting acclimated to it and kind of proud of us for continuing a …
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Lisa Bryan, Executive Editor
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9/1/21
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The night sky above the Key Peninsula isn’t always clear.
We enjoy about 140 nights a year that are partly cloudy or better. The rest remind us that the KP isn’t West Texas and you …
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Dan Clouse
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9/1/21
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Recently I rediscovered a forgotten pleasure.
I have come to believe that waiting is one of life’s under appreciated treasures. Unfortunately, societal norms have created the impression that …
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Carolyn Wiley
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9/1/21
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We moved to the Key Peninsula from Seattle in 2019. We had and continue to have such vivid impressions of this place — so many stories, discoveries, wilderness encounters, new family members …
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José Alaniz
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9/1/21
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Before I was a mom, back when I used to see social media as fun rather than torture, I would roll my eyes at those captions accompanying photos of kids headed off to their first day of school. …
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Krisa Bruemmer
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9/1/21
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As concerned citizens of the Peninsula School District, we are alarmed by the board’s passage of resolution No. 21-28 without public comment at its July 22 meeting, “Regarding State-Mandated Training for Staff and School Board,” which addressed the diversity, equity and inclusion training called for in Senate Bill 5044.
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9/1/21
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Regarding the “Save Peninsula Schools” ad in the July 2021 issue, your “About that Ad” editorial and the reader comments in the August 2021 issue: First and foremost, …
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9/1/21
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“I wouldn’t think a nonprofit newspaper could print something like this.”
It is a brand-new day when an advertisement appearing in the Key Peninsula News draws so much attention …
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Lisa Bryan, Executive Editor
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8/28/21
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Sometimes I feel like that is how I live my life; just muddling through until I finally get somewhere. Some people seem to have a clear objective and a straightforward path that they do not veer from …
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Vicki Husted Biggs
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8/28/21
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You have probably noticed it is getting hotter, as if the weather is out of balance. Earth’s energy flow is always in balance, but the planet-wide thermostat is now set to keep more heat. The …
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Richard Gelinas
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8/28/21
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I have been researching and writing about the history of our area for a few years now. The lives and adventures, the successes and low points of the people who managed to find their way to this …
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Joseph Pentheroudakis
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8/28/21
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