Gig Harbor Now reporters chase down news that affects community residents, providing facts with context and perspective.
Since 2022, the city of Gig Harbor has worked to create a conservation area, called the txʷaalqəł Conservation Area, spanning 40.5 acres of land near the heart of downtown. The city’s recent purchase of property from two private landowners increased those 40.5 acres to just shy of 52 total acres. The city acquired the land
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Unpaved peninsula: The Harbor’s hidden forests and fields Note: Growing up on the Gig Harbor Peninsula used to entail some familiarity with the woods. If you knew the routes, you could cross the peninsula on trails, sticking to fields and forests (and occasionally crossing a country road). That’s much harder today, yet undeveloped land remains
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For the 11th straight month, the median price of a single-family home in the greater Gig Harbor between the Purdy and Narrows Bridges, including Fox Island, rose in August — and it hit $900,000 for the first time. The median home price is up 8% since last August and nearly 100% since August 2016, according
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“By 2040, almost a quarter of the U.S. population will be age 65 or older,” according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This demographic shift will impact the economy, healthcare and community dynamics. Now is the time to prioritize health and wellness to increase your chances of aging healthily and maintaining independence
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Labor Day is in our rearview mirror. The kids are back in school. That makes it a great time to visit (or more likely revisit) the Seattle Center. The crowds should be much reduced, and it’s still mild enough that you won’t freeze your tush going from exhibit to exhibit. I first visited the Seattle
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With their 14-10 Fish Bowl win over Peninsula on Saturday, Sept. 7, Gig Harbor evened the overall series between the two programs at 23 wins apiece. In the process, the Tides just might have found their quarterback of the future in freshman Sawyer Hayes. The Peninsula fans who filled their side of the stands at
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A neighbor whose home was damaged by a 2017 slide seeks to stop Kopachuck tree cutting until tests show it’s safe.
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Learn about the mysterious world of the pinto abalone (Haliotis kamtschatkana) at this month’s Cocktails and FishTales, Wednesday, Sept. 11, at Ocean5. The pinto abalone is a species of marine snail found in the kelp forests and rocky reefs of the Salish Sea, where they play an important role in the ecosystem. They clean the
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In spite of being a leading authority on absolutely nothing, people ask me questions anyway. For many years, by far and away the most frequent one has been: “What is WRONG with you?!” Coming in a distant second is: “Are you going to finish that?” But this is not the proper forum for those kinds
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“I’m sorry you’ll have to walk around,” a woman in a safety vest told several teens Saturday as fans arrived at Mt. Tahoma High School stadium for Fish Bowl 2024. The separation of fans — Gig Harbor Tides’ boosters on one side of the stadium, Peninsula Seahawks’ faithful on the other — was part of
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