Gig Harbor Now reporters chase down news that affects community residents, providing facts with context and perspective.
Has this ever happened to you? You’re at a ball game. It’s chilly. You’re wearing gloves, cheering on your favorite team. But instead of a loud clap, your hands go “thud, thud, thud.” Lame. Pioneer Elementary School student Kai Sandoval has the solution for you: The Cold Clapper. It consists of two plastic disks you
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It’s time for the Sports Beat, a capsule of this week’s best performances from local prep athletes and teams. We begin on the diamond, where the red-hot Peninsula fastpitch team won the district championship on May 21 with a 5-2 win over Bonney Lake. In three district tournament games, they outscored their opponents 25-2. Coach
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From Maritime Gig to the Summer Art Festival, many events that were curtailed or canceled during Covid will return this summer.
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Gig Harbor Police arrested a man suspected of stealing more than $100,000 worth of merchandise from Target stores in the region on May 20. Store security, who had recognized the suspect in the Gig Harbor store, called police around 9:30 p.m. The officers noted a maroon Nissan Altima in the parking lot that is associated
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After nearly three months, traffic is flowing in both directions through downtown Gig Harbor. Harborview Drive, the city’s main drag, was closed in the southbound direction on Feb. 28 to resume construction of a $2.2 million roundabout at its intersection with Stinson Avenue. Drivers were diverted to a long detour via Borgen Boulevard and the
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Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial beginning of summer. That’s not true on your calendar. It looks like it won’t be true in your weather forecast, either. According to the National Weather Service, unofficial summer will begin with steady rain on all three days of the Memorial Day weekend. So if you’re planning to go
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Stephanie Lile has a proposal to boost funding for Gig Harbor’s nonprofit arts and culture organizations. Lile, executive director of the Harbor History Museum, wants to create a Peninsula Cultural Arts District. The district would correspond to the boundaries of the Peninsula School District, encompassing Gig Harbor, Fox Island and the Key Peninsula. If voters approve
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Students in the STEAM Club at Kopachuck Middle School wanted to find out how much plastic waste was generated on their campus. They recently spent a couple weeks collecting empty drink bottles, sandwich bags, food packaging, plastic utensils and other plastic waste during lunchtime. The project was inspired by National Geographic’s Planet or Plastic?, a
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Norway ambassador Anniken Krutnes visited the Puget Sound area last week, including a stop Sunday in Gig Harbor, and was struck by the similarities between the area and Norway.
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Only one offender has ever breached the Purdy prison’s fence, and that was before a second razor-wire barrier was added last summer.
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