Highway 302 Spur bridge opening Saturday
Nov 29, 2023 | By: Gig Harbor Now StaffThe road has been closed and a short detour in place since April for a fish passage project.
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Grinch moves from Rosedale to Skansie Park
Nov 29, 2023 | By: Chapin DayOn Monday, Mary Godwin-Austen suddenly interrupted her brisk morning walk along Harborview. She’d seen an old friend. On a roof top. The Grinch. A Who-ville House relic High overhead, three Gig Harbor Public Works employees, two on hydraulic bucket trucks, one clinging to the shingles, toiled to install a new addition to the Skansie Park
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Harbor Happenings: City flips the holiday lights on this week
Nov 28, 2023 | By: Charlee Glock-JacksonThe holiday season hits high gear this week with the lighting of the city’s holiday tree in Skansie Brothers Park at 5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 2. Santa arrives on a fire truck at 5:30 p.m. The event includes live music, craft vendors, cookies and cocoa. Festivities continue until about 7 p.m. Harbor WildWatch will host
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Turnout in 2023 election slightly higher in Gig Harbor than elsewhere in county
Nov 28, 2023 | By: Vince DiceThe 2023 election is officially over after the Pierce County certified the results of the Nov. 7 balloting on Tuesday, Nov. 28. Results posted on election night held up in the handful of Gig Harbor-area races, with late-arriving ballots not significantly impacting the margins of victory. Local results In the Peninsula Metropolitan Park District, voters
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Developments would bring more than 150 residences to Swede Hill
Nov 28, 2023 | By: Ted KenneyAdd northern Swede Hill to the list of Gig Harbor locales slated for accelerating suburban growth. West of Highway 16, on land sloping down to Burnham Drive NW and McCormick Creek, two local developers are shepherding separate proposals through the city’s permitting process that would add more than 150 residences on land now occupied by
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Business spotlight: Telling your story with R Storie
Nov 27, 2023 | By: Julie Warrick AmmannYou are your story. R Storie believes who you are can be expressed through fashion and style. Rachel Peirce, owner of R Storie, a women’s boutique clothing store in Gig Harbor North, has been a fashion storyteller since her early days stocking shelves at Tacoma’s Nordstrom at age 14. Her boutique connects women with the
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Annual Turkey Trot fights hunger
Nov 25, 2023 | By: Julie Warrick AmmannDinosaurs, turkeys and tutus were among the colorfully styled ensembles runners sported as they gobbled up the road competing in the Gig Harbor Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving morning. Now an annual tradition, the Turkey Trot began in 2002 with just 15 friends, family and patients of Dr. Tim Holmes, an area chiropractor. Today, more than
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Sports Beat: Volleyball teams narrowly miss medal-round rematch
Nov 24, 2023 | By: Dennis BrowneBoth local volleyball teams’ seasons ended one match before they would have played each other for seventh place at the WIAA Class 3A state tournament at the Yakima Valley SunDome on Nov. 17 and 18. It’s probably fair to say the teams finished tied for ninth at the state. They previously tied for second in
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Pierce County offers holiday shuttle connecting Key Peninsula, Gig Harbor
Nov 24, 2023 | By: Vince DicePierce County will contract with private operator Around the Sound to operate a shuttle service connecting the Key Peninsula to attractions in Gig Harbor on weekends during the 2023 holiday season. The county hopes that the temporary service will serve as a pilot program that leads to improved transit service on the Key Peninsula, according
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Thanksgiving table settings add to the charm of this food-centered holiday
Nov 22, 2023 | By: Marsha HartDespite the chatter in some social media groups that the current generation doesn’t want to register for china when they get engaged or married, or inherit any of the fine dining sets from family members, some Gig Harbor families set their table with china every Thanksgiving holiday. Each year, Kathy Fox of Gig Harbor sets
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