In spite of being a leading authority on absolutely nothing, people ask me questions anyway. For many years, by far and away the most frequent one has been: “What is WRONG with you?!” Coming in a distant second is: “Are you going to finish that?” But this is not the proper forum for those kinds
Washington Water is warning people in about 1,900 homes that use its Peacock Hill water system to boil their water (or use bottled water) before drinking it or using it for cooking. The utility found E.coli bacteria in a water sample collected Wednesday, Sept. 4, it announced Thursday evening. Washington Water said in an update
The Gig Harbor High School grad kept the Montreal Alouettes atop the Canadian game during a recent stint as a starting, er, pivot.
The life of the former Pierce County councilmember and PenMet executive director will be celebrated Sunday at Chapel Hill Church.
In the spring, some of Peninsula School District’s most remarkable seniors were asked what advice they would give to new high schoolers.
Last year, as the city of Gig Harbor prepared to update its Comprehensive Plan — the outline for the way city government will strategize, create, and operate towards the year 2044 — it conducted surveys at various events known to be a bustle of Harbor activity. Several centered around the Downtown Waterfront Farmers Market. The city
When the pandemic forced beaches to close, Harbor WildWatch Education Director Rachel Easton saw an opportunity. If people couldn’t visit the tides, she would bring the tides to them online. “We transitioned all of our school programs and public programs to be digital, but we weren’t getting much traction. Streaming on Facebook, we’d get a
Such is the power and reach of this history column (zero and zero) that nobody bothered to inform me, after my little July 28 observation on long-ago furniture names, that the word davenport, as applied to what’s more commonly known as a couch or sofa, is indeed still in popular use on the Peninsula today.
Photos by Ronan Lynch from the Olalla Americana Music Festival, held Saturday, Aug. 17 at the South Kitsap Southern Little League field. Click on any image below to see the photos as a gallery.
Maintenance and road work will disrupt drivers in at least three locations around Gig Harbor the week of Aug. 19. They include: Highway 16 in Purdy Beginning the evening of Monday, Aug. 19, work on a new bridge carrying Highway 16 over Purdy Creek will force overnight lane closures. The lane closures will allow trucks
