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There is a strong feeling among residents that property crime rates are rising on the Key Peninsula and that law enforcement appears to be unwilling or unable to apprehend and detain suspects. …
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Sara Thompson, KP News
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12/30/21
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The Key Peninsula Fire District board of fire commissioners unexpectedly voted to put Assistant Fire Chief Hal Wolverton on paid administrative leave during its biweekly meeting Dec. 14.
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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12/15/21
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Pierce County Fire District 16 Board of Commissioners appointed Assistant Chief Hal Wolverton interim fire chief for Key Peninsula Fire Department.
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Lisa Bryan, KP News
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12/2/21
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The number of people experiencing homelessness in Pierce County increased 37% between 2015 and 2021, according to the county's Homeless Point-in-Time Count survey conducted last January.
The …
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Ted Olinger and Sara Thompson, KP News
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10/28/21
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Key Peninsula Fire Department Chief Dustin Morrow has applied for the job of chief at Central Pierce Fire & Rescue in Puyallup, the largest fire district in the county. He advanced to the last …
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Lisa Bryan, KP News
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9/29/21
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Michael Kotas, 46, of Lakebay was arrested July 22 for second-degree assault on a Home community resident. A hearing Aug. 8 to determine whether Kotas is competent to stand trial was continued to Sept. 27 and he was ordered held in Pierce County Jail.
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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9/1/21
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A six-year Key Peninsula fire levy lid lift was approved in the Aug. 3 primary election vote by 62% to 38%, or 2,696 yes to 1,631 no votes in a typical 22% off-year summer voter turnout. The vote …
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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9/1/21
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Two Key Peninsula residents died in separate accidents in July.
Pedestrian Colby Jake Pederson, 32, was hit and killed by a car July 28 on Wright Bliss Road NW just north of 109th St. Ct. NW at …
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Staff Report
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9/1/21
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Most Key Peninsula Fire District 16 personnel have been vaccinated against COVID-19, according to Fire Chief Dustin Morrow.
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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9/1/21
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Multiple improvements over an 8-mile stretch of State Route 302 stretching from Elgin Clifton Road to Purdy, delayed by Covid restrictions in 2020, are back on track for completion by year’s …
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Staff Report
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8/28/21
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Two teenagers died on the Key Peninsula June 28 just a few hours and a few miles apart in unrelated accidents.
Will Huck of Port Orchard, 17, drowned in Horseshoe Lake at approximately 3:15 …
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Staff Report
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7/28/21
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After nearly 40 years with the Key Peninsula Fire Department, Battalion Chief Chuck West is retiring.
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Sara Thompson, KP News
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5/26/21
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Longtime Wauna resident Randy Takehara was officially sworn in as a Key Peninsula Fire District 16 commissioner by the board of commissioners during its regularly scheduled meeting May 11 via Zoom.
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Lisa Bryan, KP News
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5/26/21
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An arrest was made April 28 in connection with the burglary of the Lakebay Post Office April 3 and the break-in at the Belfair Post Office in Mason County April 17. The two cases were earlier …
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Staff Report
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5/26/21
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The Lakebay Post Office was burglarized April 3 at approximately 3:30 a.m. It was the second successful break-in of the post office in the last 22 months.
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Staff Report
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4/28/21
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The current headquarters located in Key Center is unmanned as it lacks overnight facilities. Training exercises regularly take place as people drive through the parking lot where Moffett cited both space and safety as concerns.
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Lisa Bryan, KP News
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4/28/21
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COVID-19 cases in Pierce County began to fall in January from their historic highs but remain at “high risk” levels, according to the state Department of Health. County COVID-related hospitalizations and deaths have also fallen.
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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2/24/21
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Key Peninsula Fire Department personnel gathered Jan. 31 at Station 47 in Home before proceeding to the site of a two-bedroom mobile home they would burn to the ground before day’s end.
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Lisa Bryan, KP News
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2/24/21
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Gov. Jay Inslee directed the Washington Department of Health to move the state into Phase 1B, Tier 1, of its COVID-19 vaccination distribution plan Jan. 18, allowing everyone over the age of 65 and anyone 50 or older living in multigenerational homes (excluding parents and their children) to receive the vaccine.
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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1/27/21
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Lakebay Marina owner Mark Scott watched in dismay as, bite by bite, bulldozers demolished and trucks hauled away debris from three dilapidated former cabins cited in a Warrant of Abatement and …
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Staff Report
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1/27/21
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