Solo circumnavigator Erden Eruç of Wauna, 60, made landfall at Legazpi City in the Philippines March 24, becoming the first person to row from North America to Asia after launching from …
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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4/26/22
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Nancy Board is an extraordinarily self-reliant woman focused on wellbeing. She loves her life and the man she shares it with in Wauna, and maintains an abiding faith that somehow, someway, everything …
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Lisa Bryan, KP News
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4/26/22
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Since its inception in 2017, Heartwood Haven, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and registered charity on the Key Peninsula, has rescued more than 1,400 farm animals suffering from cruelty and neglect, including …
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Krisa Bruemmer, KP News
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4/26/22
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Chris Bronstad is painting for Ukraine.
The retired Key Peninsula Middle School teacher and local artist, who lives in Vaughn, spent the last few years concentrating on his award-winning artwork. …
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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4/26/22
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Most people who drive the section of Key Peninsula Highway between Home and Whiteman Road get a lift from seeing the white picket fence, the blossom-filled yard and the little flower stand on the …
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Carolyn Wiley, KP News
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4/26/22
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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 …
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Lisa Bryan, KP News
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3/31/22
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Follow KP resident's heroic one-person-powered voyage
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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3/27/22
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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 …
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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2/28/22
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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 …
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Krisa Bruemmer. KP News
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2/28/22
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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 …
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Lisa Bryan, KP News
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1/27/22
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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 …
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Krisa Bruemmer, KP News
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1/27/22
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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 …
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Joseph Pentheroudakis, KP News
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12/30/21
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After over 40 years practicing medicine on the Key Peninsula, Dr. William Roes is entering a phase of semi-retirement.
Starting Dec. 30, Roes will cut back to approximately two days a week …
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Krisa Bruemmer, KP News
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12/30/21
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Most of the year, Santa Claus can go about in public without a single child noticing him. But come autumn, he breaks out his red fedora and starts waxing his moustache; he is no longer incognito.
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Carolyn Wiley, KP News
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12/2/21
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I met Tom, my husband, back in ’81, and he already had this piece of property out here, and I came out here right away. I was a social worker in long-term care in Tacoma, and here would come …
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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10/28/21
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Cats of the Key
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Earlier in the year we thought it would be fun to run a collection of KP dog photos. That made a lot of dogs and their owners very happy, but it riled up the loyal opposition, the cat people. …
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Staff Report
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9/25/21
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Wauna resident Erden Eruç, 60, is due to make landfall early in September after rowing from California to Hawaii in his attempt to row, pedal and climb around the world.
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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9/2/21
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Two years ago, Taralynn Perkins, then 16, came home to a notice posted on her family’s front door. The notice informed them their lease would be terminated at the end of the month. If they had not left by then, they would be evicted.
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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9/1/21
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Peg and Larry Bingham, age 88 and 90 respectively, spent years on the move pursuing various enterprises and adventures, delivering airplanes cross-country, traveling the world, living on a sailboat, …
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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8/28/21
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In June of 1970, Rick and Smitty were fresh graduates of Peninsula High School. They had grown up on the Key Peninsula — Rick on the family homestead in Vaughn and Smitty in Minter. They both …
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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8/28/21
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