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Gig Harbor Now reporters chase down news that affects community residents, providing facts with context and perspective.

Sports Beat: Peninsula volleyball takes fifth at state

Nov 25, 2022 | By:

The Peninsula Seahawks volleyball team earned a 5th place finish by fighting through the consultation bracket at the Class 3A state championships at the Yakima SunDome on Nov. 17 and 18. Peninsula’s fifth-place finish followed a runner-up finish in the 2021 tournament. The third-seeded Seahawks opened the tourney in dominating fashion by defeating Lynnwood, 3-0.

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Shop local: Options abound in Gig Harbor

Nov 25, 2022 | By: Julie Warrick Ammann

Looking up from her book, Angie Young replies, “It’s not Amazon.” The Gig Harbor resident has brought her two young children to Invitation Bookshop, an independent bookstore on Olympic Drive. Noses in books, sitting quietly side-by-side on a bench flanked by children’s books, 8-year-old Madeline and 10-year-old Oliver are worlds away in their stories. This

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Blair Suek enjoying first year as the top Tide

Nov 23, 2022 | By:

The first thing one notices about new Gig Harbor High School athletic director Blair Suek is her beaming smile and enthusiastic attitude. As you get to know her more, her intellect and astute athletic insights become apparent. Combine those qualities with her experience as a college athlete, high school coach and athletic coordinator and it

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Peninsula High students collecting teddy bears for kids in Ukraine

Nov 23, 2022 | By:

Playing alone in a gymnasium with tall windows and green walls, Arseniy, 6, bounces a basketball and aims over and over for the hoop, impossibly high. “When they shoot, I run home. I think our flat (apartment) could be shot,” he explains in a voiceover video as his determined play continues. “I’m more worried about

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Harbor Happenings: Winterfest benefits Peninsula High students

Nov 22, 2022 | By:

The holiday spirit is on display all over town this week. Thanksgiving weekend means Winterfest at Peninsula High School. More than 130 artists and crafters will show and sell their work  Saturday and Sunday. For sale will be everything from doll clothes to wooden maps to spices and sauces to jewelry to art made from

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Scenic Lombard Drive forest getting healthy trimming

Nov 22, 2022 | By:

Trees in the Ellis Forest Conservation Easement are being thinned to create a more diverse and healthy environment.

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Basket Brigade feeding hundreds of families this week

Nov 21, 2022 | By:

For the past several weeks, school kids, business owners and nonprofits have been decorating cardboard boxes that will be filled with Thanksgiving dinners and delivered to families in need in Gig Harbor and beyond. From eight families to hundreds It’s part of the Thanksgiving Basket Brigade, a program founded in 1993 by Gig Harbor resident

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Business spotlight: PlanLED brings big league experience to Gig Harbor

Nov 18, 2022 | By:

PlanLED, which recently moved its headquarters and opened a showroom in Gig Harbor, has installed lights in some of the most iconic buildings in the country.   Yankee Stadium in New York. Busch Stadium in St. Louis. Seattle’s T-Mobile Park (neé Safeco Field) and Portland’s Moda Center.  What the company wants to do now is

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City to study improvements at Crescent Creek Park

Nov 18, 2022 | By:

The city of Gig Harbor will start studying improvements at Crescent Creek Park and the surrounding area next year. The city council on Monday unanimously approved a contract with Hough Beck & Baird, Inc. Landscape Architects to create a master plan and conceptual design for the park. The master plan will ascertain the condition of

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Gig Harbor Police Blotter: Fleeing Mustang goes wrong way on Hwy. 16

Nov 18, 2022 | By:

Editor’s note: The Blotter is written based on information provided by Gig Harbor Police and Gig Harbor Fire & Medic One. A Silver Ford Mustang fleeing from Gig Harbor police ended up driving the wrong way on Highway 16 early on the morning of Nov. 6. An officer spotted the Mustang, which officers were looking for in association with two

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