Rodika Tollefson
July 1, 2004
Kitesurfing, an emerging sport, is converting surfers from coast to coast to a new way of defying gravity: with the help of a giant kite, a board, and a lot of adrenaline.

Colleen Slater
July 1, 2004
A day in the life of a Herron Island ferry captain. In this next installment of “A Day in Life” series, read about Captain John Farris, whose ferry is the only link to the rest of the world from the secluded Herron Island.
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Bill Dietz
July 1, 2004
A Key Pen reporter sets out to learn the truth about the location of Lake Kathryn. After all, it is somewhere on the Peninsula…right?

Hugh McMillan
July 1, 2004
Peninsula School District Superintendent Jim Coolican tells community leaders that the district must adopt the “mindset of no excuses regarding students achieving their full potential.”
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Rodika Tollefson
July 1, 2004
The remoteness of the Key Pen can be a ripe area for chop shops—but they are hard to spot. They are also often accompanied by other illegal activities, such as narcotics and car thefts.
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Danna Webster
July 1, 2004
Department of Transportation Regional Director Randy Haim, Washington State Historical Society’s Heritage Resource Center Director Garry Schalliol, Sen. Bob Oke, and Rep. Pat Lantz attended the third Wauna town meeting that focused on traffic and safety issues as well as the restoration of the old Wauna Post Office building.

Staff Report
July 1, 2004
Voters selected 14 local residents to be part of the new Community Council. Residents are also asked to complete a comprehensive needs survey that will determine priority issues for the council.

Various Contributors
June 1, 2004
Sleep deprivation leads a Key Pen woman to pursue the art of hypnosis, past life regression and other forms of alternative healing.

Irene Torres
June 1, 2004
It took Doctor William Roes about 15 years to recruit the right physician for his Key Center practice—but now that he’s found his match, the clinic will begin accepting new patients again and expand other services, badly needed in an area that has always lacked adequate health care.
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Rodika Tollefson
June 1, 2004
Last fall’s Fire District 16 levy couldn’t come soon enough for the firefighters eager to get rid of the district’s two old trucks that had a habit of spending long hours in the repair shop and even breaking down en route to calls. But now that the district is getting new rigs, the two old trucks will get new life in Guatemala, a country that until a few years ago used pickups for ambulances and doors for stretchers
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Rodika Tollefson
June 1, 2004
Long before the idea came about to create a Key Pen Metropolitan Park District, the KP Parks and Recreation District begun discussions about the potential acquisition of 360 acres from the Department of Natural Resources for a regional park.
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Staff Report
June 1, 2004
Community Council election: candidate bios
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Rodika Tollefson
June 1, 2004
After a year-and-a-half of efforts to create the Key Peninsula Community Council, residents will get to vote in the council’s first election in June. Read about polling locations, voting procedures, and candidate bios.

Rodika Tollefson
June 1, 2004
Four years after a drunken driver took the life of 39-year-old David Doolittle, his family erects two signs in his memory—one almost exactly at the spot where he died—in hopes to remind others how quickly drinking and driving can change lives.