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
Air quality remains good in the Gig Harbor area, but that could change quickly with a 150-acre wildfire burning on the Olympic Peninsula. A fire near Brinnon in Jefferson County started at about 5 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 14. A statement from the state Fire Marshal’s Office distributed around 3 p.m. Thursday said the fire is
Our last question of local history concerned one of the several Peninsula logging railroads of the early 20th century. With the continuing development of the Peninsula, more of the old logging railroad grades are being destroyed nearly every year, leaving the remaining ones harder to find. But we know they crossed a number of state
The greater Gig Harbor area between the Purdy and Narrows Bridges, including Fox Island, saw an increase in both home prices and inventory in July, according to recent data from the Northwest Multiple Listing Service (NWMLS). The median home price for a single-family home reached $891,000 in July, marking a 0.7% increase from June and
There remains a large gap for third-place candidates in local races to erase to reach the Nov. 5 general election.
The Olalla Bible Church has been a prominent staple of the community for over a century, but an estimated $130,000 in repairs threatens its future. Pastor Dave Campbell said the congregation discovered the damages while replacing the chimney. “When they took that down, behind the chimney at the bottom there was a spot, probably two
I live I the Pacific Northwest for a reason. Well, truthfully, for many reasons, but one of the primary reasons I love Western Washington is because I really dislike hot weather. So, on a recent weekday, when all the weather prognosticators were predicting temperatures approaching the century mark, I decided to escape for a day.
