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The Gig Harbor girls basketball team got off to a fast 4-1 start, even after a hard-luck offseason in which two starters suffered season-ending knee injuries. Coach Mike Guinasso’s team was only one win away from the 2022 Class 3A state tournament before losing in the regional round to Kelso. His team was primed to
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A “triple-demic” is clogging Washington health care facilities, the state Department of Health warned this week. And over-the-counter medicine to treat flu, COVID-19 and RSV symptoms are hard to find. The situation is straining the state’s health care system, DOH leaders said in a media briefing Tuesday, Dec. 13. Both DOH and the Tacoma-Pierce County
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Last spring, parents and staff at Discovery Elementary School sounded off on a long-standing safety issue at the school, which lacks interior classroom doors in its main wing. The school, built in 1981, employs an “open concept” design that was popular before school shootings became an all-too-common occurrence. The Peninsula School District’s capital projects team
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Jennifer Haro was in Ireland to attend a friend’s wedding when she received an email indicating that the city of Gig Harbor wanted to interview her to be its new parks manager. After that slightly delayed interview, the city hired Haro as its new parks manager in early November. She replaces Matthew Keough, who took
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It’s looking – and sounding – a lot like the holidays, all over town. Lighted Car Parade and Santa’s Village Dozens of lighted cars — 65 at last count — will rendezvous for the third annual Lighted Car Parade on Saturday, Dec. 17, at Uptown Gig Harbor. As is the tradition, Santa will lead the
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The Gig Harbor boys basketball team, coming off a successful 2021-22 season in which the Tides reached the state tournament, have begun this season 3-1 for head coach Billy Landram. The Tides reached the Class 3A state tournament quarterfinals last year with a 23-5 record, won the South Sound Conference championship and were undefeated at
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If passed next week, an amendment to the shoreline management plan would keep 49.2 miles of shoreline free of docks and piers. They’d be mostly confined to shorelines where others already disrupt the habitat.
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The Peninsula High girls basketball team has swarmed its opponents on defense and attacked the rim on offense, allowing the Seahawks to sprint out to a 5-0 start for new head coach Hannah Lekson. Lekson begins her head coaching career in a familiar place. A 2011 Peninsula grad, she played basketball, soccer and ran track
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Peninsula School District has set three meetings in January to inform the public about two levies that will be on the Feb. 14 ballot. District leaders will present information about the Replacement Educational Programs and Operations Levy and the Safety, Security and Technology Levy, and they’ll answer voters’ questions. Times and dates The meetings will
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When the boats line up Saturday, Dec. 10, for the annual Lighted Boat Parade, they’ll be part of a continuous tradition that dates back to the 1970s or earlier. Even when many events were canceled due to COVID-19, the parade still was able to light up the harbor on a December evening, according to Robert
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