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The Gig Harbor boys finished third and the girls fourth at the state golf tournament on Wednesday and Thursday, May 21 and 22. Those strong state showings came on the heels of impressive finishes at the West Central District meet, where the Tides won the girls team championship behind individual medalist Carly Ikei. Gig Harbor
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This article is reprinted with permission by the Washington State Standard, a nonprofit publication covering policy and politics in Olympia. Read more here. Candidates running to lead Washington’s public schools debated Monday night on issues like student mental health, absenteeism and the role of parents in their kids’ education. Three contenders vying to be the
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As the leader of Kitsap Mental Health Services, CEO Monica Bernard knows as well as anyone how easy it can be for someone facing serious mental illness to dismiss any anticipation of recovery. “Maybe their lives are weighed down by poverty, or housing instability, or chronic illness. It’s all too easy for them to give
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A Pierce County Superior Court judge on Monday sentenced Mark Allen Erisman, 61, to more than 17 years in prison for the Oct. 4, 2020, murder of Diane Perron at her home on Valley View Drive in Gig Harbor. Erisman pleaded guilty under an agreement between Pierce County prosecutors and his public defender, Kelsey H.
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Haven of Rest cemetery hosts its annual Memorial Day ceremony at noon Monday, May 27. The event includes guest speakers, musical performances and a free hot dog lunch after the program. More than 2,200 veterans are buried at the cemetery. Haven of Rest is located at 8503 Highway 16, between the Wollochet and Burnham exits
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Gig Harbor City Council member Jeni Woock announced in a letter to constituents that she will not run for re-election in 2025. Woock will remain on the council through the end of her term at the end of 2025. “While Gig Harbor does not have term limits, I am a supporter of terms limits,” Woock
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The effort to build more and better parks got a huge boost when a 2002 change of state law enabled metropolitan park districts to form in unincorporated areas.
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Before addressing the answer to the question from our last column, it’s worth mentioning that if you haven’t seen Tonya Strickland’s 14 Names to Remember project, a tribute to the Peninsula’s WW2 dead, there’s plenty of time left to do so. It’s well worth seeing. Unlike the granite monument in Kenneth Leo Marvin
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A 41-year-old Gig Harbor man, whose identification showed him to be originally from Ireland, ended up in the hospital early on May 12 after his white van ran into a retaining wall on Point Fosdick Drive. Officers found the man inside the van at about 1 a.m. that day. He had sustained a head wound
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Since closing its labor and delivery unit two years ago, Naval Hospital Bremerton – which once delivered a quarter of Kitsap County’s babies – has relied on St. Michael’s Medical Center in Silverdale to provide delivery and obstetrics care to military patients. Kitsap Public Health officials say the reduction in obstetrics care is one of
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