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I have given up hoarding coffee beans as a coping strategy. It was harmless and somewhat effective, but I have moved on. Learning to bake a good cake from scratch is my new diversion in this time of …
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Vicki Husted Biggs
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10/29/20
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It’s not as though Herron Island is isolated from the rest of the world. After all, our ferry, the 11-car red-and-white M/V Charlie Wells, plies the three-quarters of a mile between the island …
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Joseph Pentheroudakis
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10/29/20
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I strongly recommend that we re-elect our two incumbent state representatives from the 26th Legislative District, Jesse Young and Michelle Caldier, in November to continue serving us in Olympia for …
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10/29/20
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I live on the shoreline of Burley Lagoon and I have been a witness to the events of the past two years where our lagoon life has been disrupted in the middle of summer by a pungent and toxic odor. …
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10/29/20
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We are headed deeper into the forest with the darkest days ahead. On my walk this chilly fall morning, my breath along with the dog’s meets the cold and hangs suspended mid-air. It won’t be long before the trees shed the rest of their leaves. Untended, growing wild along the roadside, the last deep red apples cling to their branches as if for dear life.
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Lisa Bryan, Executive Editor
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10/29/20
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Here on the West Coast, we’re witnessing the birth of an ominous new season: smoke season.
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Caleb Galbreath, KP News
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10/1/20
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It’s late summer, early fall. Temperatures went from the near-unthinkable 100-degree mark for a few weeks down to the 50s in the evening. It feels like a blast furnace when you walk out into …
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Joseph Pentheroudakis, KP News
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10/1/20
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Nearly 150,000 people die each day around the world. On Wednesday Aug. 19, 2020 one of them was Hudson.
He was 6 years old and lived across the street from us. My wife and I have known him almost …
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Rob Vajko
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10/1/20
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My daughter talked to a spider for 30 minutes at breakfast this morning.
“I gave Spidey a sip of my chocolate milk!” Violet said, her grin spreading across the room like a …
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Krisa Bruemmer, KP News
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10/1/20
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Just outside my office sits the Lakebay cemetery, a peaceful little plot of land tucked away behind a thick hedge and madrona trees. Bordered by the Lakebay Church, on a hill that backs into Mayo …
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Dan Whitmarsh
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10/1/20
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Key Peninsula needs fresh voices in the Washington House of Representatives.
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10/1/20
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When I am not in Olympia during the legislative session, I provide short-term foster care for teenage girls. I take in our state’s most challenging youth who would otherwise be placed in a …
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10/1/20
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Simply keeping up with the news of rolling disasters has been quite an exercise in 2020. Time feels more distorted than ever in this, the seventh month of the pandemic life.
In September, …
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Lisa Bryan, Executive Editor
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10/1/20
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Mindfulness can boost the quality of our lives in numerous ways.
The question is, what is mindfulness? What does it do to spark “just being” in ourselves and our …
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Anne Nesbit
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8/27/20
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My 4-year-old and I were talking about running and I was telling her about different sports she can try if she wants to one day, like track, swim team, crew team, volleyball, tennis, softball, …
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Phyllis Henry
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8/27/20
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My 4-year-old and I were talking about running and I was telling her about different sports she can try if she wants to one day, like track, swim team, crew team, volleyball, tennis, softball, …
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Krisa Bruemmer
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8/27/20
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Salmon and cedar were the lifeblood of Native people on Puget Sound. For the S’Hotlemamish of Minter Bay, the coho, chum and cutthroat trout runs were so productive that the villagers were …
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Lynn Larson
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8/27/20
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Does voting really matter? Key Peninsula voters say yes.
And 2.5 million people in Washington State agree. An impressive 54.44% of registered voters cast ballots in the Aug. 4 primary election …
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Lisa Bryan, Executive Editor
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8/27/20
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I have been enjoying the KP News for years and appreciate your efforts…
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Brian Nicholson, Lakebay
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8/27/20
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Ted Olinger’s item on the cost and benefits of the COVID-19 lockdown was a better analysis than anything I’ve read elsewhere, even nationally.
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Diane Yorgason-Quinn, Wauna
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8/27/20
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