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Editor’s note: The following items were written based on information in Gig Harbor Police reports. Gig Harbor Police were called to Target on the afternoon of April 16 for a report of a possible shoplifting. Responding officers found two suspects, whom they believed to be working in tandem. Both men had shopping carts full of
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The Peninsula baseball team faced the Capital Cougars on Tuesday, April 19, in an important game at picturesque Sehmel Park in Gig Harbor. The contest was the first of a two-game series between the top teams in the South Sound Conference. Peninsula started the day with a two-game lead on Capital, but their margin was
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A Gig Harbor Police officer shot at a suspect who had pointed a shotgun at him Tuesday afternoon, according to a news release from the department. Neither the involved officer nor the suspect was injured. The incident occurred at about 4:45 p.m. Tuesday, April 19, on the 6400 block of 154th St. NW in unincorporated
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After a two-year hiatus, the Gig Harbor Paddlers Cup returns this weekend, April 23-24, to Skansie Brothers Park. The races draw hundreds of participants and spectators to the downtown waterfront, or they did before the 2020 and 2021 versions were canceled due to Covid-19. The event is a fundraiser for the Gig Harbor Canoe and
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Thanks in part to a $20,000 grant from the Russell Family Foundation, the Gig Harbor Land Conservation Fund has already achieved a key benchmark toward acquiring 5.15 acres of forested land near Donkey Creek Park. The recently-launched Conservation Fund had been planning a fundraising campaign for this week, hoping to raise $50,000 to contribute to
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Information taken from Gig Harbor police reports for late March and early April.
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It’s time for this week’s edition of the Sports Beat, a weekly capsule of the area’s high school sports highlights. We start with the game of the week, a pivotal boys soccer matchup between crosstown rivals. Gig Harbor vaulted to the top of the South Sound Conference soccer standings on Tuesday with an impressive 4-0
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Members of the Gig Harbor High School Dance Team held hands and squeezed their eyes shut, praying, hoping. When second-place Shorewood was announced, “we started just immediately crying because we knew that the team that got second, it was an amazing team,” said Ashlyn Francisconi, Gig Harbor’s co-captain. Gut instinct told them they were about
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Peninsula School District’s draft Strategic Plan 2022-26 is open for public comment through May 6
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The walls inside the apparatus bay at Gig Harbor Fire and Medic One’s Station 58 on Bujacich Road tell a story. The cinder-block walls inside the poorly-ventilated garage are stained from more than 30 years’ worth of diesel exhaust from fire and aid vehicles. This despite the best efforts of generations of firefighters to scrub
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