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Haven of Rest cemetery hosts its annual Memorial Day ceremony at noon Monday, May 27. The event includes guest speakers, musical performances and a free hot dog lunch after the program. More than 2,200 veterans are buried at the cemetery. Haven of Rest is located at 8503 Highway 16, between the Wollochet and Burnham exits
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Gig Harbor City Council member Jeni Woock announced in a letter to constituents that she will not run for re-election in 2025. Woock will remain on the council through the end of her term at the end of 2025. “While Gig Harbor does not have term limits, I am a supporter of terms limits,” Woock
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The effort to build more and better parks got a huge boost when a 2002 change of state law enabled metropolitan park districts to form in unincorporated areas.
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Before addressing the answer to the question from our last column, it’s worth mentioning that if you haven’t seen Tonya Strickland’s 14 Names to Remember project, a tribute to the Peninsula’s WW2 dead, there’s plenty of time left to do so. It’s well worth seeing. Unlike the granite monument in Kenneth Leo Marvin
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A 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
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Since closing its labor and delivery unit two years ago, Naval Hospital Bremerton – which once delivered a quarter of Kitsap County’s babies – has relied on St. Michael’s Medical Center in Silverdale to provide delivery and obstetrics care to military patients. Kitsap Public Health officials say the reduction in obstetrics care is one of
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Peninsula’s McKenna Baurichter defeated all of the top South Sound Conference tennis players to win the girls singles championship at the league finals on May 10 and 11 at Central Kitsap High School in Silverdale. Baurichter went 13-1 during the regular season to post the South Sound Conference’s best record, but was inexplicably seeded third
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All westbound lanes of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge re-opened Thursday morning, the Washington state Department of Transportation announced. Two westbound lanes closed Monday for emergency repairs, causing long backups. Traffic was especially difficult during afternoon hours, with some drivers reporting hours-long commutes home to Gig Harbor from Tacoma. WSDOT discovered a problem in an expansion
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Drivers who use Soundview Drive, Olympic Drive or Hollycroft Street will see disruptions this summer as the city of Gig Harbor replaces more than a mile of water main. The Gig Harbor City Council on Monday unanimously approved four contracts that will fix water main problems in the area. The projects include replacing an existing
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Construction 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
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