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Public weighs in on sports complex designs at open house

Jul 02, 2022 | By: Charlee Glock-Jackson

Options were presented for Phase 1B’s playgrounds, performance stage and pickleball courts.

County discusses Fox Island bridge replacement, repair project at community meeting

Jul 01, 2022 | By: Ed Friedrich

Islanders, who would be shouldering much of the cost of a new or renovated bridge, were most concerned about funding, but those details won’t be known until later.

Gig Harbor Police Blotter: Suspect sought in Thursday bank robbery

Jun 30, 2022 | By: Gig Harbor Now Staff

The suspect presented a note to a teller but didn’t show a weapon.

Kindergarten teacher Kelli Willson sets up her classroom at the new Swift Water Elementary School in Gig Harbor on Aug. 19. Classes for gra

Peninsula teachers’ union negotiates raise to address inflation

Jun 30, 2022 | By: Christina T Henry

The new contract also calls for lower class sizes in the youngest grades.

Volunteers unload watermelons delivered to the Food Backpacks 4 Kids Food Pantry on Wednesday, June 22, 2022.

Food Backpacks 4 Kids fills a void during summer

Jun 30, 2022 | By: Vince Dice

Summer break began last week in the Peninsula School District, a nearly universal cause for celebration for kids. Yet for some students, the end of the school year also means the end of free, nutritious and easily obtained meals. That’s where the Food Backpacks 4 Kids program, based on the Key Peninsula and serving the

Cruisers car club all about ‘making friends and having fun’

Jun 29, 2022 | By: Dennis Browne

The big Cruise the Narrows car show is coming up Aug. 6 at Uptown Plaza. The club hosts many other events, including cruise-ins, club tours or just driving around town.

Front of Discovery Elementary in Gig Harbor

School district promises classroom doors for Discovery; Here’s the plan so far

Jun 29, 2022 | By: Christina T Henry

Supply chain issues will slow the process, Peninsula’s facilities head says.

Gig Harbor bans fireworks within city beginning next year

Jun 28, 2022 | By: Charlee Glock-Jackson

This will be the last Fourth of July that fireworks can be lit off, and it’s allowed on Monday only from 9 a.m. to midnight. The City Council was optimistic that a city-sponsored display could take place in the future.

Fox Island group probes support for seceding from PenMet

Jun 27, 2022 | By: Ed Friedrich

A group of Fox Island residents wants to leave PenMet Parks and take three properties with them. Parks for Fox Island, alleging a lack of investment and poor communication, seeks to obtain the Tacoma DeMolay Sandspit Nature Preserve, Fox Island fishing pier and Cedrona Bay boat launch. It would acquire them the same way PenMet

Pickleball is played on a smaller court, allowing more players to participate than in more space-consuming sports like tennis.

Pickleball popularity evident on the courts of Gig Harbor

Jun 23, 2022 | By: David Armstrong

Pickleball, the grassroots sport born in a Bainbridge Island backyard in 1965, is often said to be having a moment, thanks to an impressive growth spurt over the last few years. It’s more than a moment. A movement is more like it. Sports Illustrated recently called the once-obscure game with the funny name (it’s reportedly

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