Gig Harbor Now and Then | The lutefisk slander has to stop
Oct 07, 2024Remembering the halcyon days when one could get lutefisk whenever one wanted in Gig Harbor.
Man throws punches at Gig Harbor officer, delivery driver following road rage incident
Oct 04, 2024Gig Harbor police fought with a 44-year-old local man in a retail parking lot in Gig Harbor North following a road rage incident on Sept. 20. Police cited him for three counts of fourth-degree assault. The incident began when a 66-year-old delivery van driver backed out of a driveway in a nearby residential neighborhood. She
Local man helping auction relics from Western Flyer, a boat famously connected to Steinbeck
Oct 03, 2024How much would you pay to own one-of-a-kind pieces of fishing, environmental, scientific and literary history? Could you be an “angel?” Those are questions inspired by a Wauna man’s quest. Michael Hemp, a vibrant, engaging and consistently curious 81-year-old whose business card lists him as “Historian, Heritage Marketing & Communications Consultant, Researcher, Archivist, Lecturer, Novelist,”
Gig Harbor Film Festival attendance up 57% from 2023
Oct 01, 20242024 Gig Harbor Film Festival awards went to “First We Bombed New Mexico,” “7000 Miles,” “Dawgfather” director Kent Loomer and others.
Day Tripper | A spooky stop on our Puget Sound Loop
Sep 26, 2024I admit it. I’m easily distracted. Staying focused is not my strong suit. Take last year, when I set out on a daytrip to Port Townsend to check out the place that’s reported to be one of the most haunted towns in the Pacific Northwest, if not the entire United States. Instead, I ended up
Photo gallery | 2024 APCC Korean ChuSeok Festival
Sep 24, 2024Photos by Larry Steagall from the 2024 APCC Korean ChuSeok Festival. Click on any image below to view it as a gallery.
Gig Harbor Now and Then | If only they had followed their own advice
Sep 23, 2024Who knows how old these people would have turned if they hadn’t picked up a bad habit. And about that term, “would have turned …”
Phase IV purchase is ‘last piece of the puzzle’ for new conservation area
Sep 12, 2024Since 2022, the city of Gig Harbor has worked to create a conservation area, called the txʷaalqəł Conservation Area, spanning 40.5 acres of land near the heart of downtown. The city’s recent purchase of property from two private landowners increased those 40.5 acres to just shy of 52 total acres. The city acquired the land
Gig Harbor Real Estate | Median single-family home price tops $900,000 in August
Sep 11, 2024For the 11th straight month, the median price of a single-family home in the greater Gig Harbor between the Purdy and Narrows Bridges, including Fox Island, rose in August — and it hit $900,000 for the first time. The median home price is up 8% since last August and nearly 100% since August 2016, according
Day Tripper | Park once, play all day at the Seattle Center
Sep 10, 2024Labor Day is in our rearview mirror. The kids are back in school. That makes it a great time to visit (or more likely revisit) the Seattle Center. The crowds should be much reduced, and it’s still mild enough that you won’t freeze your tush going from exhibit to exhibit. I first visited the Seattle
