Sports Beat | Peninsula girls one win from state
Feb 15, 2024 | By: Dennis BrowneThe Gig Harbor boys basketball team also needs one win in its next two games to claim a berth in the state tournament.
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Gig Harbor Council sends property tax measure to voters
Feb 15, 2024 | By: Charlee Glock-JacksonGig 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
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Minterbrook Oyster Company hopes Laguna’s will be a slam dunk with diners
Feb 14, 2024 | By: Leland SmithIn 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
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Wellness Wednesday | Heart health awareness: Education and tips for a healthier future
Feb 14, 2024 | By: Scot FleshmanHeart 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
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Harbor Happenings | Exploring local links to Steinbeck and a famous journey
Feb 14, 2024 | By: Charlee Glock-JacksonMost 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
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Gig Harbor Real Estate | Prices pick up ahead of spring buying and selling season
Feb 13, 2024 | By: Alison PaoliThe Gig Harbor real estate market continued to pick up momentum in January despite a significant shortage of available homes to buy.
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Kopachuck State Park improvements finally forthcoming
Feb 13, 2024 | By: Ed FriedrichA 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
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Gig Harbor Now and Then | WWII-era incendiary balloon was a mere inconvenience on the Key Peninsula
Feb 12, 2024 | By: Greg SpadoniOur 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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Free legal pop-ups debut this week in Gig Harbor
Feb 12, 2024 | By: Ted KenneyLegal advice may not, at first, seem as fundamental a human need as food or medical care. But Bob Vollbracht, volunteer leader of the Gig Harbor Key Peninsula Housing-Homeless Coalition, has seen the profound benefit of free legal services to low-income clients shaken by situations such as domestic violence, child custody disputes or looming evictions.
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Newly formed nonprofit wants to adopt school district’s KGHP
Feb 12, 2024 | By: Christina T HenryA small group of radio enthusiasts has offered to assume management of KGHP-FM, the 36-year-old radio station that Peninsula School District is looking to rehome. A gap remains, however, between the newly-formed nonprofit’s vision for the station and the district’s plans. In a “next steps” meeting Thursday, Feb. 8, that drew more than 30 attendees,
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