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Thursday, December 2, 2021
Blend Wine Shop closed its doors — eventually — for the last time Oct. 30.
Thursday, December 2, 2021
The Peninsula School District officially welcomed its third of four new buildings this year with a formal ribbon-cutting and public tour at Evergreen Elementary. It is the first new school built on the Key Peninsula in decades.
Thursday, December 2, 2021
Pierce County Fire District 16 Board of Commissioners appointed Assistant Chief Hal Wolverton interim fire chief for Key Peninsula Fire Department.
Thursday, December 2, 2021
Thanksgiving was a day of talking a little too loudly, gesturing a little too broadly and experiencing all the good feelings of true belonging that we’ve missed over the past two years. It …
Thursday, December 2, 2021
My daughter, Violet, has been waiting for Santa since last January. It feels like she’s asked, “How much longer until Christmas?” just about every single day. I was the same …
Thursday, December 2, 2021
The Christmas season is upon us once again. Even in this second winter of Covid, it is a time for celebration, family, and feasting. Dancing lights twinkle merrily while carolers serenade our streets …
Thursday, December 2, 2021
Crabs think fish fly. I can hear them, muttering and grumbling, stumbling about on the barnacled rocks along the shores of Puget Sound. The fish too look up jealously at the bottom of my boat as I …
Thursday, December 2, 2021
I spent a couple of years back in the 1990s working for a small tutoring company in Seattle. The job was to help teenagers academically, but some needed more. We found them better schools, …
Thursday, December 2, 2021
I have lived in the area over 40 years and walked the beaches and forests of the Key Peninsula. I see firsthand the damage that commercial geoduck harvesting does to the beach. I was at the Haley …
Thursday, December 2, 2021
I take no pleasure in pointing out the lack of leadership exhibited by the board in handling Chief Morrow’s decision…
Thursday, December 2, 2021
Lila Lee (Smith) Abraham born Nov. 22, 1930, in Yakima to Jim and Betty Smith, passed away quietly in the company of her family Oct. 23. She was raised in Kellogg, Idaho, and Yakima as her father …
Thursday, December 2, 2021
Born Oct. 10, 1942, in Morton, Washington, to parents Alfred and Helen Jorgenson England, Clifford B. England aka “Buck,” age 79 of Home, died Nov. 11 at St. Anthony Hospital following …
Thursday, December 2, 2021
Marianne was born in Lakebay to Ernest and Irma Nordquist Sept. 2, 1936. She died peacefully in Renton, surrounded by family Nov. 10. Marianne graduated from Peninsula High School Class of …
Thursday, December 2, 2021
In 1982, Smitherman became the first Black man elected to the Legislature from the 26th, which at that time included part of Tacoma, Gig Harbor and the Key Peninsula, west to Gorst.
Thursday, December 2, 2021
Peninsula Community Health Services opened the doors to its new Key Peninsula Clinic, providing primary medical and dental care for children and adults.
Thursday, December 2, 2021
The Washington State Redistricting Commission failed to meet the deadline to submit its plans for new congressional and legislative district maps Nov. 15. Responsibility for redistricting now goes to …
Thursday, December 2, 2021
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 …
Thursday, December 2, 2021
The Key Peninsula once worked hard every December to deck the halls of America with boughs of holly. For a brief decade in the 1930s, one of the most promising crops in the South Puget Sound area was holly.
Thursday, December 2, 2021
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.
Thursday, December 2, 2021
Growing up in southern Minnesota, the holiday season for our family centered on the run up to Christmas Eve. Holiday baking began as soon as the Thanksgiving table was cleared, with a variety of …
Thursday, December 2, 2021
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.
Thursday, December 2, 2021
After over a year of adapting to changes brought on by the pandemic the Pierce County Library System has reopened its buildings to the public.
Thursday, December 2, 2021
Last spring new leadership stepped in at Food Backpacks 4 Kids.
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