Photo Gallery | Make Music Day 2024
Jun 21, 2024Photos from United By Music America’s Make Music Day on Friday, June 21, at Uptown Gig Harbor. Click on any image below to view the photos as a gallery.
Photo Gallery | Opening day of the 2024 Waterfront Farmers Market
Jun 07, 2024The Waterfront Farmers Market opened its 2024 season on Thursday, June 6, at Skansie Park. The market continues every Thursday (except July 4) through the end of August. Click on any photo below to view a gallery of images.
Gig Harbor Police Blotter | Hospital patient spits on, bites and punches nurses
Jun 06, 2024Editor’s note: The Blotter is written based on information provided by Gig Harbor Police , Gig Harbor Fire & Medic One and the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office. A 32-year-old woman with a history of mental illness, recently released from the Washington Corrections Center for Women after serving a sentence for assaulting a health care worker, injured two nurses at St. Anthony
Farmers Market brings fruits, veggies and fun to Skansie Park starting this week
Jun 04, 2024The Gig Harbor Waterfront Farmers Market returns on June 6, with a focus on local producers of fresh produce and other food.
Five injured in collision during Maritime Gig Parade
Jun 01, 2024Two vehicles participating in the Maritime Gig Grande Parade on Saturday collided on Harborview Drive near Rosedale Street, injuring five people. Gig Harbor Fire and Medic One treated five patients following the collision. Medics took four of them to local hospitals for treatment. GHFMO said two victims suffered minor injuries and three suffered “moderate” injuries.
2024 Maritime Gig Festival: Here’s what you need to know
May 28, 2024The 2024 Maritime Gig Festival is Saturday and Sunday, June 1 and 2, in Gig Harbor. Here’s what you need to know.
Photo gallery | 2024 Memorial Day ceremony
May 27, 2024At least 200 people turned out to honor the fallen during the 2024 Memorial Day ceremony at Haven of Rest Funeral Home in Gig Harbor on Monday, May 27. The ceremony included a prayer for soldiers killed during wartime, a Cruisers Club car show, live music and free hot dogs. Graves of veterans at the
Judge sentences man to more than 17 years in prison for 2020 murder of his neighbor
May 21, 2024A Pierce County Superior Court judge on Monday sentenced Mark Allen Erisman, 61, to more than 17 years in prison for the Oct. 4, 2020, murder of Diane Perron at her home on Valley View Drive in Gig Harbor. Erisman pleaded guilty under an agreement between Pierce County prosecutors and his public defender, Kelsey H.
Gig Harbor Police Blotter | Man injured when van hits retaining wall
May 17, 2024A 41-year-old Gig Harbor man, whose identification showed him to be originally from Ireland, ended up in the hospital early on May 12 after his white van ran into a retaining wall on Point Fosdick Drive. Officers found the man inside the van at about 1 a.m. that day. He had sustained a head wound
Commercial Fishing Homeport construction won’t start this year
May 15, 2024Construction of Gig Harbor’s Commercial Fishing Homeport project will not begin until July 2025 at the earliest, city Public Works Director Jeff Langhelm told the city council on Monday, May 13. The homeport at Ancich Park has been planned since 2013 and is considered crucial to Gig Harbor’s commercial fishing industry. But obtaining approval for