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Gig Harbor-area students interested in exploring a career in the aviation industry will have that option close to home starting in the 2025-26 school year. Peninsula School District recently announced it will launch an Aviation Academy next year in partnership with the Museum of Flight and Tacoma Narrows Airport. Filling a skills gap The academy,
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Freshman Nadia Schwab scored two goals for the Tides in the soccer championship game. Both teams advance in the postseason.
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“Shock” is the term one lawmaker representing Gig Harbor used to describe her response to the Pierce County Planning & Public Works Department’s recent flip-flop on the future of Purdy, the unincorporated community just outside Gig Harbor’s northern border. Early this year, county planners recommended stripping Purdy and some other unincorporated areas next to Gig
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Xylazine, a common veterinary sedative that is increasingly being mixed with fentanyl in some parts of the U.S., has not significantly infiltrated the drug market on the Kitsap Peninsula, based on available data and anecdotal accounts from local providers. But concerns remain that it could spread to the state in coming years. Federal regulators approved
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Peninsula High school science teacher by day, performing artist in her off time, Ashley Ortenzo is one of dozens who will “fling joy” in the Puget Sound Midwinter Revels show in December. Ortenzo has been a science teacher for 24 years and lives in Gig Harbor, but it’s her first year at Peninsula High School.
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The annual downtown trick or treat takes place from 3 to 6 p.m. on Halloween night on Harborview Drive.
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The Tom Taylor Family YMCA, having raised $5.5 million of $7 million needed to build two lighted, artificially turfed fields, seeks help reaching the finish line.
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Rex Davison is not a full-time actor. He’s actually a real estate agent. But this gives him a lot of flexibility, he explained while unwinding after a long day of moving boxes from Ghostlight Performing Arts’ old space in Bremerton to the small company’s new home at the Nichols Community Center on Fox Island. “I
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Gig Harbor Tides started fast and had to hold on at the end to defeat Bellarmine, 28-26, in an instant classic at Roy Anderson Field on Friday, Oct. 26. The Tides jumped out to a 7-3 lead in the first quarter when do-it-all running back Ryland Geldermann ran around left end, swatting away the arms
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The Gig Harbor and Peninsula girls soccer teams each won two Puget Sound League tournament matches and will face off in the first championship game of the new league on Tuesday, Oct. 29, at Roy Anderson Field. Peninsula (12-1-1) opened the postseason with come-from-behind, 2-1 victory over Silas on Oct. 22. Peninsula appeared to be
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