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Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Q: What’s with the hummingbirds in January? Are they dive-bombing? I thought the high-pitch chirp was a squirrel, but those are hummingbirds? — Megan Schowalter, Longbranch
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
The Key Peninsula Community Council, Key Pen It Clean, Safe Streets and Pierce County will team up to provide access to dumpsters free of charge for KP residents March 18 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. to …
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
All day-use areas, trails, and camping at Penrose Point State Park have been closed since Jan. 15 for sewage system repairs and upgrades, according to the Washington State Parks and Recreation …
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Created to overcome barriers so many women confront, the local Minerva Scholarship Fund has given $500,000 over 30 years to more than 200 Gig Harbor and Key Peninsula women to help complete their …
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Voters approved two Peninsula School District levies on the Feb. 14 ballot. At press time the Replacement Educational Programs and Operations Levy passed by 64.07% and the Safety, Security …
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Key Peninsula Fire District 16 terminated the lease agreement for the commercial Calahan property (formerly O’Callahan’s, Buck’s and Reed’s) at the corner of KP Highway NW and …
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
The keynote speaker at the 36th Annual Key Peninsula Citizen of the Year Award banquet scheduled for March 25 was to be long-time Lions Club member, all-around KP booster and raconteur Hugh McMillan, …
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Sometime around Christmas 2021, Evergreen Elementary School second-grader Brayden VanderDoes lost his appetite. Then he began to vomit. Every day. In the coming weeks he lost his energy and …
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
County residents over age 61 or who are fully disabled and have a gross household income below $45,708 may qualify for the Pierce County Property Tax Exemption program. Newly elected county …
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
In early December 2016, Washington State Rep. Michelle Caldier (R-26th) was awakened by a crushing pain on the side of her head. She suddenly lost vision in her left eye from acute glaucoma, a …
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
The Food Markets at Key Center and Lake Kathryn have been sold to a new owner, and Lake Kathryn may also be getting a new retail tenant. Don Stolz sold the two businesses to The Myers Group, a …
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Longtime KP booster Carolyn Wiley of Longbranch was honored with a Rotary Star Award Feb. 3 at the 11th annual dinner ceremony presented by the local Gig Harbor Rotary Clubs. Each Gig Harbor …
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
For most people on the Key Peninsula, Himalayan blackberry bushes are a minor nuisance. For Farrell and Laurie Timlake, they were a major problem …
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Leiston Stoddard was recently named to the U.S. Youth Soccer National Select team …
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Late last fall I read that one of my favorite directors, Noah Baumbach, had written and directed a movie based on the novel “White Noise” by Don DeLillo from the 1980s. I read the book …
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
On the Key Peninsula of old, you could hire a “beeliner” …
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
This time of year, the morning sun enters the house at the perfect angle to shine light on how much dust and cobwebs have accumulated in the living room, signaling that spring is almost …
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
The Key Peninsula Historical Society was awarded a $35,000 Pierce County Historic Preservation grant Jan. 31 after being ranked No. 1 on the county project list for its ongoing restoration of the …
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
After living in the Rosedale area of the Gig Harbor Peninsula since 1968, I moved across Carr Inlet (straight as the crow flies) to Lake Minterwood on the Key Peninsula after the passing of my …
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
I was annoyed to read the letter from Dale Lyman complaining about your Progressively Liberal Left-Wing Communist (OK, I’m exaggerating slightly) publication (“KP News Is Biased Liberal …
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Please bring back the bird to the KP News masthead. I always look at the bird first. The masthead seems blank without it. Diane Yorgason-Quinn, Gig Harbor
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
My gratitude for the article about the book “Just Mercy” and its author, Bryan Stevenson. I knew nothing about Bryan and his work until a few years ago when I visited Montgomery, Alabama, …
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
In 1990 I was a 26-year-old dilettante who thought I’d accumulated enough savings and contacts and clout working at a big time publisher in New York City to believe I could plunge blind-folded …
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
I am not quite old enough to remember the assassination of Lincoln, but I do remember hearing Hank Snow’s 1962 hit “I’ve Been Everywhere, Man” on AM radio. If you are a youngster, that’s …
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Artificial intelligence is coming for your job! It’s coming for my job! It’s taking us a step closer to the singularity! We need to prepare for the rise of the machines! …
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
It’s happening again, the thing we all know and dread. There is nothing we can do about it; we just have to get through it. You know what I’m talking about — the long, dreary last …
Saturday, February 25, 2023
Key Peninsula community booster and beloved newspaper columnist Hugh McMillan died Feb. 10. He was 96 years old. Born in New Westminster, British Columbia, in 1926 to Angus and Clara, his family …
Saturday, February 25, 2023
Mary Patrice (Lambion) Cultum died at her home, in Vaughn, January 9. She was born March 18, 1951, in Kansas City, Missouri, to James McLaughlin Lambion and Mary Joanne (Brewster) Lambion, both of …
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