Fox Island Bridge maintenance work to require lane closures
Mar 08, 2024 | By: Gig Harbor Now StaffConcrete girder repairs will result in single-lane closures with alternating traffic plus some short overnight total shutdowns.
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Denny Richards remembered for his wisdom, humor and legacy of leadership
Mar 07, 2024 | By: Ed FriedrichDennis “Denny” Richards served as Gig Harbor police chief, city administrator and performed good deeds as a longtime Kiwanis Club member.
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Gig Harbor City Council puts sales tax increase before voters
Feb 29, 2024 | By: Vince Dice and Charlee Glock-JacksonThe Gig Harbor City Council voted unanimously on Monday, Feb. 26, to place a proposed sales tax increase before city voters on the Aug. 6 primary election ballot. The 0.1 percent sales tax increase would bring the city’s overall sales tax rate to 9.0 percent. The city would use proceeds from the increase to fund
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Gig Harbor Council to consider putting public safety sales tax increase before voters
Feb 23, 2024 | By: Gig Harbor Now StaffThe Gig Harbor City Council will consider placing a sales tax increase before voters during its meeting on Monday, Feb. 26. If approved by voters on the Aug. 6 ballot, proceeds from the increase would support public safety efforts. The proposal before the council would increase sales tax inside Gig Harbor city limits by 0.1%,
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Fox Island park plan could include more parking, picnic shelter, paved walkway
Feb 22, 2024 | By: Ed FriedrichAccording to a master plan nearing completion, Tacoma Demolay Sandspit Park will receive expanded parking, a new building, lawn area and paved ADA path to the beach.
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In the Margins | Amid our booze bonanza, let’s get sober on drunk driving
Feb 21, 2024 | By: Chris PhillipsI was arrested for drunk driving about 35 years ago. True story: A Gig Harbor police officer ran me through the curbside test for sobriety — I failed. He handcuffed me in front of W.B. Scotts restaurant (now Bella Femmina) on Harborview Drive and invited me to the back seat of his patrol car. I
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Property tax statements may be in your mailbox
Feb 15, 2024 | By: Gig Harbor Now StaffProperty 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
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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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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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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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