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Nine students from Gig Harbor and Henderson Bay high schools earned Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) from the Rotary Clubs of Gig Harbor Midday and Rotary North this month. The award recognizes students who are community and school leaders, as seen in their dedication to community service. Local students earning the honor include Cassius Via,
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Captain SeaHawk strikes again. In his quest to aid graduating seniors at Peninsula High School, Wallace Watts of Gig Harbor — known as Captain SeaHawk for his over-the-top fan persona — raised more than $3,000 earlier this month to obliterate lunch debt for the Class of 2023. Seniors must pay all fines and fees to
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A record number of high school students in the Peninsula School District earned varsity letters in community service this school year. Sixty-four students spent a minimum of 100 hours helping others in various ways throughout the county. In years past, the requirement for receiving a varsity letter was 145 hours per school year. But, after
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Editor’s note: The Blotter is written based on information provided by Gig Harbor Police and Gig Harbor Fire & Medic One. A mom told told police that another child’s dad grabbed her 6-year-old son, yelled and cursed at him, and popped his balloon during a birthday party at a business on Kimball Drive on June 17. The mom told police
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PenMet Parks will ask voters in November to renew a six-year levy lid lift that would allow it to continue to collect property taxes of up to 6% more than the previous year instead of the state limit of 1%. When residents voted to form the district in 2004, they agreed to pay 75 cents
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Since 1998, the Gig Harbor Garden Tour has showcased some of the area’s most unique, inspiring gardens. The six gardens in this weekend’s tour reflect the unique tastes and passions of their creators. They include a garden that doubles as a gallery of the owner’s extensive art collection and a quiet retreat nestled at the
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Preseason testing showed one bright spot. Nisqually Reach averaged 7.3 Dungeness per pot pull. Chambers Bay drew 1.8, and the other six sites brought in fewer than one.
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The National Transportation Safety Board and the Pierce County Fire Marshal’s Office believe that oil-soaked rags caused a fire that destroyed a $1.5 million yacht at the Peninsula Yacht Basin last year. NTSB posted its report on the fire this week. Nobody was injured in the fire. Firefighters from Gig Harbor Fire & Medic One
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We all have dreams and goals. And so often we hear the time-honored advice to just go for it. Shoot for the moon! Someday soon, C.J. Booth’s literary dream will land on the moon … literally. Introducing the Lunar Codex Project. NASA plans to put humans back on the moon sometime in 2026. Along with
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The first Pride festival in recent memory in Gig Harbor came together quickly. Jennifer Day, chair of the Pride in the Park event, and others organized the event in just a couple months after realizing the area hasn’t traditionally done much to celebrate Pride Month. “It’s definitely been a whirlwind,” Day said. Pride in the
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