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After nearly two years of challenges brought on by the pandemic, including the loss of a local program for younger Scouts, Scout Troop 220 and Cub Scout Pack 222 are back together again, meeting weekly at the Key Peninsula Civic Center …
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Krisa Bruemmer, KP News
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12/30/21
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Let’s take a ramble. Let’s head through this soggy pasture and aim for the woods.
Think of all we’ve seen in the last year on the KP, the encounters with deer and moths, the …
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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12/30/21
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A Beaver Poop Mystery
The dam is deep in a thicket and quite small. To reach it I’m forced to crab-walk into the lively creek below it. Salmonberry canes extract the small blood offering …
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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12/2/21
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Red Barn Youth Center teamed up with Key Pen Parks to take nine students from Key Peninsula Middle School for a guided mountain bike ride. It was a ride they won't soon forget.
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Lisa Bryan, KP News
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12/2/21
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Solo circumnavigator Erden Eruç, 60, of Wauna, resumed his second solo row across the Pacific Oct. 7 when he relaunched from Waikiki, Oahu, where he arrived Sept. 10 after an 80-day crossing from Crescent City, Calif.
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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10/28/21
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The Peninsula High School Seahawks beat the Gig Harbor Tides 35-28 Sept. 17 at Roy Anderson Field in a stunning come-from-behind win for their sixth consecutive Fish Bowl victory.
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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9/29/21
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Fall again. Hea vy sunflower heads have fallen and the clouds of goldfinches that came for their seeds have scattered into the trees. Rain falls and rotting resumes. Down come the soggy stems of …
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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9/29/21
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The Pierce County Council voted to adopt the recommendations of the Citizens Advisory Board to the Conservation Futures Program to begin negotiating the purchase of conservation properties.
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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9/29/21
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Snakes Eaten, Snakes Eating
Recently a friend asked me if there are birds that eat garter snakes. A few, I told him. Red-tailed hawks are known for making off with snakes. It is always an odd …
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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8/28/21
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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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The University of Washington Sea Grant Program has again issued a call for the public to take photographs of the year’s highest tides on Puget Sound and the outer coast.
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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12/30/20
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McMicken Island, a few hundred feet from Harstine Island to the west of the Key Peninsula, is a favorite destination for area boaters and kayakers. One of about 40 marine state parks in Washington, …
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Joseph Pentheroudakis, KP News
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10/1/20
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Coyotes are singing on the peninsula. They wake me in the wee hours. My mind needs a good minute or two to figure out if the eerie sounds
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Chris Rurik, Special to the KP News
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5/29/20
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The novel coronavirus is inspiring more people to grow their own fresh veggies this spring. Square foot …
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Sara Thompson, KP News
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5/1/20
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Springtime comes to the peninsula. The soil warms and bird songs light up the mornings. In the forest you no longer tramp recklessly …
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Chris Rurik, Special to the KP News
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5/1/20
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