About 50 students at Discovery Elementary School are sick in what the Tacoma-Pierce County Health District believes is an outbreak of norovirus. A Peninsula School District statement said school administrators identified a possible problem on Thursday, May 8. By Friday, 50 students were absent or went home early. Norovirus is a highly contagious disease that
Chuck Sharman and Bob Mitchell graduated from high school together, joined the Navy together and were reported dead together in Pearl Harbor. They lived remarkable lives after that.
For nearly a year, I’ve been planning an April day trip to Brinnon on the Hood Canal. Last spring, I learned about Brinnon’s annual Fjord Fest on Memorial Day weekend. It sounded like a lot of fun. Imagine my surprise when, while beginning my pre-day trip research, I learned that for the first time since
The state’s operating, transportation and capital budgets now go to Gov. Bob Ferguson, who promised to “carefully review” them.
PenLight said a mechanical failure in a Tacoma Power system is causing the outage.
A soft opening will occur in June, along with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on June 17 and grand opening celebration on June 21.
The median home prices for a single-family home in the greater Gig Harbor area rose to a new record of $922,000 in March.
The Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office identified Alejandro Huitron Campos, 31, of Gig Harbor as one of two people found dead following the fire on April 8.
With just days remaining until April 26, Harbor History Museum staff and volunteers are scrambling, often working behind a blue curtain. For the past two months, the dense fabric has barred public access to some museum favorites. The curtain opens this weekend, when the museum stages a grand opening of its new Maritime Gallery. The
Benjamin Pardee, whose many swindles included selliong fish oil on Fox Island, was a real snake-oil salesman.
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