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Imagine looking into the eyes of your closest longtime friend but unable to place them or remember their name. Or remembering suddenly, in the grocery store aisle, you need coffee, only to come home and find several unopened packages of coffee in your cupboard because the same situation has happened several times before. What about
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If you were lucky to buy or refinance during the COVID-19 pandemic, when interest rates were around 3% or less, you know you are sitting on a gold mine. But if the needs of your family changed in the meantime – you need another bedroom, an office, or want something updated and fresh – you
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Have a swarm of honey bees on your property? Don’t spray them with water or insecticide. Call the Pierce County Beekepers Alliance.
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Start your summer on a high note with Make Music Day on Friday, then show your Pride on Saturday.
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PenMet plans to continue to operate Madrona as a golf course, but there are issues with ownership of the land that makes up part of it.
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E. E. may not have had all his Marbles, given his curious reaction to finding a shark on a beach near Rosedale in 1907.
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The Gig Harbor boys basketball team doubled up Capital, 68-34, on June 12 during summer league action. The Tides are playing in the Curtis summer league, generally one of the top summer circuits in the Puget Sound area. The Tides are coming off another 20-win season (20-7) for head coach Billy Landram. Their 2023-24 season
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Pickleball fans made a big first impression on consultants putting together a master plan for the former nursery.
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Ahead of what could be a busy wildfire season, Pierce and six other Puget Sound-area counties are promoting a regional evacuation alert system. The Ready, Set, Go program creates a standardized three-step evacuation messaging system for most counties bordering Puget Sound, including Pierce, Kitsap, King, Skagit, Thurston, Snohomish and Whatcom. Emergency Management officials are hoping
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The Village at Harbor Hill developers had no “amazing news” at a community meeting, but a Trader Joe’s representative was in the crowd.
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