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Ladies and gentlemen, start your paddles. The 2023 Narrows Challenge race takes place Saturday, Oct. 14, hosted by the national champion Gig Harbor Canoe and Kayak Racing Team. The challenge is open to all human-powered canoes, kayaks, stand-up paddleboards, outriggers, paddleboards and surfskis that can handle tides, currents and open-water conditions. The course starts and
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Gig Harbor Now and Then’s last question of local history turned into a foursome, all pertaining to the lost history of the city of Gig Harbor’s Ancich Waterfront Park site. On the Gig Harbor Now Facebook page, Tomi Kent Smith ventured a very close guess of Mato Ivanovich as the owner, before Peter Ancich bought
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Harbor Farms is now open in Rosedale, offering a delightful family-friendly roster of things to do – including a pumpkin patch! Just after the last golden days of summer officially slipped into the crispness of autumn (and forced me to put on a jacket), this new family-friendly destination opened its gates on Sept. 29 and I reserved three tickets for opening day.
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Gas prices are sky high, and a night in a hotel is approaching astronomically expensive. So, for the foreseeable future, I imagine many of you are going to find yourselves taking day trips rather than the road trip vacations we’ve grown to love. This beautiful region in which we live is ripe with opportunities to
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It’s beginning to look a lot like Halloween, with spooky critters appearing in front yards and piles of pumpkins at every grocery store entrance. The Scarecrow Festival at Sehmel Homestead Park from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 7, provides a preview of the holiday. The event includes hayrides and a petting zoo, pumpkin
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Editor’s note: Patsy Surh O’Connell organizes the local ChuSeok Festival. An earlier version of this story misstated that fact. Hundreds gathered in Skansie Park on Sept. 30 for Gig Harbor’s third annual Korean ChuSeok Festival, a free and family-friendly event sponsored by the Asia Pacific Cultural Center. Often referred to as the “Korean Thanksgiving”, ChuSeok
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While most Western countries mark the fall equinox as the height of the harvest season, in Korea it’s celebrated with a full-blown festival known as ChuSeok. Gig Harbor’s third annual ChuSeok Festival happens from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 30, at Skansie Park. It follows a similar event held in Tacoma last week.
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The 2023 Gig Harbor Film Festival drew hundreds of cinephiles to the Galaxy Theatres Uptown for its four-day run last week. “We truly had a memorable event and it was our most successful yet. Filmmakers came from as far as Connecticut and one even drove up from Texas,” said Pam Holt, the festival’s executive director.
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Editor’s note: A previous version of this story incorrectly stated the date of the ChuSeok Festival at Skansie Park. The correct date is Sept. 30, 2023. The Gig Harbor Film Festival, happening this week at the Galaxy Uptown Theatres, features nearly 65 independent films. The festival starts Thursday, Sept. 21, and runs through early afternoon
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If you grew up in Western Washington, or even just lived here for a good stretch of time, you probably think you already know practically everything about the 1940 collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. A short documentary premiering at this week’s Gig Harbor Film Festival could prove you wrong. The 11-minute film, called
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