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Meet the local wrestlers competing in Mat Classic this weekend

Feb 16, 2024 | By: Dennis Browne

Coaches from Gig Harbor and Peninsula introduce the local competitors seeking a state wrestling championship at Mat Classic XXXV.

Property tax statements may be in your mailbox

Feb 15, 2024 | By: Gig Harbor Now Staff

Property tax statements are in the mail. Like last year, Gig Harbor-area bills rose more than anyplace else in Pierce County. Unlike the past few years, however, it can’t be attributed to soaring home values. The 5.2% increase for city residents and 6.7% for combined city and unincorporated properties is largely the result of voter-approved

Sports Beat | Peninsula girls one win from state

Feb 15, 2024 | By: Dennis Browne

The Gig Harbor boys basketball team also needs one win in its next two games to claim a berth in the state tournament.

A photo of the front of Gig Harbor City Hall.

Gig Harbor Council sends property tax measure to voters

Feb 15, 2024 | By: Charlee Glock-Jackson

Gig Harbor residents will decide in April whether to increase their property taxes after the City Council voted Monday to put the issue on a special election ballot. The ballot measure asks voters inside city limits if they want to increase property taxes from the current rate of just under 70-cents per thousand dollars of

Minterbrook Oyster Company hopes Laguna’s will be a slam dunk with diners

Feb 14, 2024 | By: Leland Smith

In Purdy, sometime this spring, ground will be broken for Laguna’s. And soon after, patrons will break bread, shuck oysters and crack crab at an oyster house-style restaurant owned and operated as an extension of the Minterbrook Oyster Company. Minterbrook plans to build the Peninsula-area’s newest restaurant near the Purdy Bridge on the former site

Wellness Wednesday | Heart health awareness: Education and tips for a healthier future

Feb 14, 2024 | By: Scot Fleshman

Heart disease is the number one cause of death in the United States. With that singular statistic, it is vital that we focus on February as American Heart Month. This awareness month was “established by President Lyndon B. Johnson under Presidential Proclamation 3566 in December 1963.” With that in mind, we are using February to

Harbor Happenings | Exploring local links to Steinbeck and a famous journey

Feb 14, 2024 | By: Charlee Glock-Jackson

Most locals know about the connection between Gig Harbor’s early settlers and Croatia. But the city also is connected with Monterey, California and Mexico’s Sea of Cortez. Historian Michael Kenneth Hemp will discuss the links and historical timelines of West Coast settlement, migration, first peoples, fisheries, local boat building and world-famous literary events at 2

Gig Harbor Real Estate | Prices pick up ahead of spring buying and selling season

Feb 13, 2024 | By: Alison Paoli

The Gig Harbor real estate market continued to pick up momentum in January despite a significant shortage of available homes to buy.

The intersection of Kopachuck Drive and 56th Street. The county would like more right-of-way on both roads.

Kopachuck State Park improvements finally forthcoming

Feb 13, 2024 | By: Ed Friedrich

A renovated Kopachuck State Park, at long last, will begin to emerge this spring. Fourteen years in the works, construction is slated to commence in late April. All permits have been approved. Drawings are finished. Bids will be sought by the end of February. Groundbreaking would follow. “I’m very excited to get out to bid

Gig Harbor Now and Then | WWII-era incendiary balloon was a mere inconvenience on the Key Peninsula

Feb 12, 2024 | By: Greg Spadoni

Our previous column noted that in a unique event, a Japanese incendiary balloon designed to set the forests of the Pacific Northwest aflame landed on the Key Peninsula in 1945, near the end of World War 2. The topic generated three questions. Where did the Japanese incendiary balloon land on the Key Peninsula? Answer: On

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