At age 81, Key Peninsula resident William Michael Paul has just written and starred in his first short film, “Kola.”
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Vicki Biggs, KP News
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11/2/23
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Happy birthday wishes arrived by letter from President Joe and First Lady Jill Biden, as well as from Gov. Jay Inslee and his wife Trudi, with their congratulations. Generations of family and …
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Ed Johnson and Lisa Bryan, KP News
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9/27/23
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The Key Peninsula Volunteer Firefighters Association and Fire District 16 honored its longest-serving member at the Sept. 12 commission meeting, commending Jerry Marsh for 50 years of service …
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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9/27/23
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Within six months of each other two women with deep Wauna connections will reach a rare milestone. Marcelle “Mar” Hoey and Betty Boyd will celebrate their 100th birthdays — Hoey
in …
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Sara Thompson, KP News
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9/27/23
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When you are as busy as new Peninsula High School girls and boys swim coach Athena Petterson, your day job and night job start to blur together.
When her team isn’t winning meets, …
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Eddie Macsalka, KP News
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9/27/23
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Derek Grannes and Alex Donahou were tossing back a few drinks at The Floatation Device Pub & Grill near the Purdy Spit last December. Nothing strange about friends of nearly 20 years getting …
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Eddie Macsalka, KP News
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9/27/23
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Rachel Ostoyich knows where she is going when she dies.
She’s been there already. Because she died already.
It was 2008. Ostoyich, then 19, was at Allenmore Hospital in Tacoma. She …
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Eddie Macsalka, KP News
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9/27/23
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Water rippling on a windshield. That’s how Alex Burley describes the look of the spirits she speaks with.
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Eddie Macsalka, KP News
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9/27/23
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The Peninsula Seahawks boys and girls cross-country teams returned to the trails last month, getting a head start on the fall sports season.
Both teams are looking to build off momentum gained …
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Eddie Macsalka
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8/30/23
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Doug MacLeod first picked up a guitar in 1960 or ’61.
“I wish I could say it was a great artistic vision, but I wanted to get girls,” he said.
Since then he has written …
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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8/30/23
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Tom Bates of Lakebay, 69, returned home June 23 after nine months of rescuing animals and delivering food and medical supplies as a volunteer to the battlefronts of Ukraine. He arrived for the first …
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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8/30/23
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Learning how to wrestle isn’t easy. Learning three styles of wrestling is tough. Excelling at all three seems near impossible.
For brothers Peyton, Preston and Paxton Beckett, …
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Eddie Macsalka, KP News
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8/30/23
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Margo Macdonald’s art is rooted in her experience of place, a quality that will be on display at this year’s 16th annual Fiber Arts Show. Macdonald, a Vaughn painter and weaver with deep …
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Sara Thompson, KP News
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8/30/23
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Fourteen years ago Mary McGriff was exhausted. Tired after more than three decades of powering through excruciating pain, bottling all her pent-up anger, hanging on to vengeful hatred and battling …
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Eddie Macsalka, KP News
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8/2/23
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Born in 1931, Phyllis Henry was one of six children raised on the family farm in rural Iowa. Her education began in a one-room schoolhouse. She had one friend, Edna. They walked to school or took the …
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Lisa Bryan, KP News
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8/2/23
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Bryce Hoover craves competition.
The 13-year-old incoming eighth-grader at Key Peninsula Middle School likes being on the baseball and football fields. He’ll even try to out-sing everyone …
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Eddie Macsalka, KP News
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8/2/23
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Once you become the first person to circumnavigate the globe alone under your own power — 41,196 miles of rowing solo across the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic oceans, …
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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8/2/23
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Gretchen Shepherd was getting ready to head to church camp at Camp Ghormley near Yakima. It was summer in the 1960s, and to capture the special moments between all the worship and fellowship, her …
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Eddie Macsalka, KP News
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6/28/23
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A memorial service honoring the life of Hugh McMillan of Home was held June 18 at the Peninsula High School gymnasium. Family, friends and dignitaries including US Rep. Derek Kilmer eulogized the …
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6/28/23
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The Key Peninsula community lost two family members when Ted Ralston and Joanna Gormly were murdered in May 2020. It was the beginning of the pandemic, and we hardly knew how to react, what to do …
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KP News Staff, Family and Friends
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6/28/23
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