A little advice to new high schoolers, from those who’ve been there
Aug 29, 2024In the spring, some of Peninsula School District’s most remarkable seniors were asked what advice they would give to new high schoolers.
Commission seeks more specifics in Comprehensive Plan arts element
Aug 27, 2024Last 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
Meet the face behind Harbor WildWatch’s TikTok success
Aug 26, 2024When 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
Gig Harbor Now and Then | Hospitals, Home Depots and New Hampshirites
Aug 26, 2024Such 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 | Olalla Americana Music Festival
Aug 19, 2024Photos 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.
Lane closures this week on Highway 16, Fox Island Bridge
Aug 19, 2024Maintenance 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
Wildfire burning on Olympic Peninsula, but air quality is still OK here
Aug 15, 2024Air 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
Gig Harbor Now and Then | Park, church and more now stand at former railroad crossings
Aug 12, 2024Our 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
Gig Harbor Real Estate | Prices, inventory are up … but the latter could change with falling interest rates
Aug 08, 2024The 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
No positions change after Wednesday vote count
Aug 07, 2024There remains a large gap for third-place candidates in local races to erase to reach the Nov. 5 general election.