Gig Harbor Now reporters chase down news that affects community residents, providing facts with context and perspective.
Gig Harbor’s Midway School, a lovingly restored one-room schoolhouse built in 1893 and relocated to the Harbor History Museum on an oversized truck in 2009, is due for another change. This time it’s thanks mainly to rising sea levels and higher, stronger king tides that inundate the harbor shoreline several times a year. The folks
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Arletta Schoolhouse is the centerpiece of Hales Pass Park that also includes a baseball field, tennis courts and picnic area.
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The Gig Harbor City Council on Monday renewed two emergency ordinances originally enacted in September. One extends interim zoning for transitional housing, permanent supportive housing, emergency shelters and emergency housing. The interim zoning was approved by the council last fall. The interim regulations were adopted in response to 2021 legislation that requires cities to amend
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The Gig Harbor City Council approved its first-ever strategic plan on Monday. The two-year plan identifies projects and issues of importance to the community and provides strategies for moving forward, based on discussions at a council retreat in January. “We need to celebrate this,” member Jeni Woock said. “Never before has the Gig Harbor council
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In 2021, in response to nationwide protests following the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers, the Washington Legislature passed several police reform bills. Law enforcement leaders around the state, including the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs and Gig Harbor Police Chief Kelly Busey, raised objections to the 2021
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The popular Summer Sounds at Skansie concert series will return starting June 28, the city of Gig Harbor announced this week. In addition to setting the schedule for the 10-week concert series, the city announced that the Friday Night Movie Series will move to Sehmel Homestead Park, in partnership with PenMet Parks. The first movie
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Ron and Jan Coen have a lot of history in the Gig Harbor Peninsula FISH Food Bank building. Both are longtime volunteers and board members who have been involved with FISH since it opened in 1976. FISH has been located at its current location, next to the Eagles Club Building on Burnham Drive, since 2000.
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Editor’s note: Every Friday during spring sports season, Gig Harbor Now will post a high school sports roundup that provides scores, highlights and standout performances by areas athletes and teams. The Peninsula baseball team has begun this season with a 3-2 record. The Seahawks have some impressive players that can hit the ball hard and
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Kitsap County Hearing Examiner Andrew Reeves ruled earlier this month that the Olalla Valley Vineyard and Winery did not violate its conditional use permit, as alleged by the county’s Department of Community Development. The ruling came following a 10-hour hearing that took place last December and a three-month delay in arriving at a decision. Reeves
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A major renovation is proposed for the Peninsula Shopping Center on Judson Street in downtown Gig Harbor, according to preliminary documents filed with the city. The renovation would “reintroduce a regional grocery store to the site,” according to the documents, filed by developer Rush Construction. Also planned are aesthetic improvements and demolition of about 9,000
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