Gig Harbor Now reporters chase down news that affects community residents, providing facts with context and perspective.
Editor’s note: The Blotter is written based on information provided by Gig Harbor Police , Gig Harbor Fire & Medic One and the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office. A 32-year-old woman with a history of mental illness, recently released from the Washington Corrections Center for Women after serving a sentence for assaulting a health care worker, injured two nurses at St. Anthony
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Across the West Sound, people experiencing a behavioral health crisis often end up in local hospitals. Every month, around 150 people in crisis arrive at the St. Michael Medical Center emergency room in Silverdale. Another 40 or 50 end up at St. Anthony Hospital in Gig Harbor. Hannah Shockley, program management planner for Kitsap County’s
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Meet Peninsula School District’s new director of athletics and activities. Wendy Malich, current athletic director for Franklin Pierce School District, starts July 1 in a newly created, “centralized” AD position for the district. Athletic directors at Peninsula and Gig Harbor high schools will remain in their roles. Malich has been at Franklin Pierce for 37
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A fire protection rating downgrade led to an extra bump in home insurance costs on south Fox Island, but it’s not just them. It’s happening everywhere.
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To be honest, I have always found auctions to be a bit intimidating. I tend to second-guess myself about whether to bid for stuff, how much to bid for stuff, and what to do with the stuff if I do emerge an unlikely winner. While my fellow bidders enjoy the sporting gamesmanship, I nervously fret
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Farmers Market season starts this week and runs from 1 to 6 p.m. Thursdays through Aug. 29 (except July 4) at Skansie Park. This year there will be more farmers and fewer craft vendors, according to the Waterfront Alliance. Market-goers will find flowers, herbs, veggie starts and all manner of seasonal fruits and vegetables, fish,
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The Gig Harbor Waterfront Farmers Market returns on June 6, with a focus on local producers of fresh produce and other food.
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Peninsula School District is one of 16 districts in Washington state to receive money for clean school buses in the most recent round of federal funding from the EPA’s Clean School Bus Program, part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Peninsula’s $250,000 in rebate funding will help offset the purchase 10 new propane buses to replace
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Exhilaration and pride dominated the day as 7-year-old Gig Harbor resident Austin Pavelek crossed the finish line at a speed of between 35 and 40 mph in his Quarter Midget Stanley car in Yakima on May 17. It was his first time winning the Junior 160 Region race. As he took the checkered flag to
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The post office was in a well-known building at the corner of Harborview and Pioneer — for most of 1951, anyway.
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