Gig Harbor Now Staff

Monday’s fog forced tug pulling two barges to put on the proverbial brakes

Oct 08, 2024

A little maritime drama with a happy ending played out Monday morning when, in bright sunshine at the west end of Gig Harbor, an historic tug pulled out towing two barges. The larger ferried a towering crane, the smaller hauled a jumbled pile of old dock debris. The barges dwarfed the tug “Cayou,” a 73-year-old

Gig Harbor Now and Then | The lutefisk slander has to stop

Oct 07, 2024

Remembering 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, 2024

Gig 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, 2024

How 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, 2024

2024 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, 2024

I 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, 2024

Photos 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, 2024

Who 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, 2024

Since 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, 2024

For 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