PenMet community recreation center becoming reality in 2024
Dec 05, 2023Construction has begun on the $31.6 million facility that will occupy much of PenMet’s time and money next year.
Vietnam veterans honored at Gig Harbor ceremony
Nov 13, 2023This year’s Veterans Day ceremony marked 50 years since the United States pulled out of the Vietnam war and showed appreciation for those who fought there.
Phase 2/3 sports center layouts whittled to two similar plans
Oct 30, 2023The two Phase 3 soccer fields could be on the same level or at different elevations. If at on height, a high school-sized baseball diamond could be overlaid on them.
Rosedale man beamed final movie at downtown theater
Oct 24, 2023A teenage Jim Langhelm manned the projectors the final two years before the Roxy Theater on Harborview Drive was closed in 1958.
Overnight work planned for this week on Highway 302 spur
Oct 23, 2023As part of the Purdy Creek culvert project, crews will pave the Highway 302 spur from just south of the new bridge in Purdy to where the spur meets Highway 16. The work will occur overnight next Monday through Friday, Oct. 23-27. Traffic will be directed around it. From 7 p.m. each night until 6
PenMet Parks considering non-resident surcharge
Oct 12, 2023Participants living outside district boundaries would pay 20% more and have to wait a week to register.
One dead in collision on Highway 16
Oct 07, 2023A Shelton woman died in a wrong-way collision on Highway 16 early Saturday. Just after 1 a.m., the 30-year-old was riding her 2000 Yamaha motorcycle eastbound on the highway near Rosedale Street, according to the Washington State Patrol. A 2014 Honda Civic going the wrong direction hit her. The motorcycle rider died at the scene.
Nielson, Sehmel campaigning for PenMet Parks board position
Oct 05, 2023One will fill the seat left vacant by Amanda Babich, who isn’t running for re-election. Sehmel topped Neilson in the primary, 49.5%-32.3%.
Voters to weigh pocketbooks, performance in PenMet taxing measure
Sep 29, 2023Editor’s note: This story has been updated since it was first posted. It now includes additional responses from PenMet to statements made by opponents of the lid lift, specifically about overtime costs associated with the end of the parks host program. It also clarifies that the state Auditor’s Office issued a “finding” in a PenMet
Purdy project open to salmon, not yet to cars
Sep 21, 2023As the Purdy culvert replacement winds down to a December completion, fish passage work at Highway 16 will shift eastbound drivers into the median until Fall 2024.