Gig Harbor Community Member

Letter to the Editor | PenLight in need of transparency

Mar 31, 2026

Peninsula Light BoD (Board of Directors) elections: It’s time to change out the board members and the CEO (No Kings!), due to lack of transparency to its member owners! My vote is for Paul Alvestad! To reinstate his removal for an apparent “whistleblower” attempt to represent the member owners, against the current “cabal-like” board, for

Letter to the Editor | Former Gig Harbor mayor says PenLight needs to change

Mar 31, 2026

Every person that has a Penlight bill is an owner of the company. That is right, it is owned by everyone that has a power bill. You paid a share at the beginning to be an owner. Yet CEO Jafar Taghavi runs Penlight like a dictator where he chooses to do whatever he wants and

Letter to the Editor | Arrangement between PenMet, PSD unfair to some

Mar 17, 2026

Letter to the editor by Michael Perrow of Gig Harbor.

Letter to the Editor | No motor vehicles on Cushman Trail

Mar 03, 2026

Letter to the editor by Shawn McWaide of Gig Harbor.

Letter to the Editor | Remember Zoya Shablykina for her life, not how she died

Mar 03, 2026

Zoya Shablykina’s family issued a statement on the tragedy on the Key Peninsula and the failure of the mental health system.

Letter to the Editor | The games the state and county play with their budgets

Mar 02, 2026

Letter to the editor by Craig McLaughlin of Fox Island.

Letter to the Editor | County should spend on deputies, not IT

Mar 01, 2026

Letter to the editor by Richard Folden of Gig Harbor.

Letter to the Editor | PenMet, the CRC and fiscal responsibility

Feb 18, 2026

Letter to the editor by Craig McLaughlin of Fox Island.

Letter to the Editor | Be careful on those electric dirt bikes

Feb 16, 2026

Letter to the editor by Jim Wellman of Gig Harbor.

Letter to the Editor | Civics education in action

Feb 09, 2026

Letter to the editor by George Young of Gig Harbor.