Meet the new football coaches at Peninsula and Gig Harbor high schools
Feb 27, 2025 | By: Dennis BrowneJeff Scoma takes over at Gig Harbor and Clay Mauro at Peninsula starting this fall.
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Minerva Scholarship applications due March 31
Feb 27, 2025 | By: Gig Harbor Now StaffMinerva has awarded nearly $600,000 in scholarships and helped more than 225 local women achieve their educational goals over the past 33 years.
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Madrona Links Golf Course dispute heading for courts
Feb 26, 2025 | By: Ed FriedrichPenMet has been authorized to pursue the 14 acres it doesn’t own through eminent domain while owner ZTM Holdings has filed suit to kick the parks district off the property.
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Day Tripper | Wright Park and Tacoma’s Stadium District
Feb 26, 2025 | By: Mary WilliamsWright Park and the Stadium District in Tacoma were the setting for a number of 1990s movies.
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15th annual Rotary Star Awards honor community spirit
Feb 25, 2025 | By: Rotary Club of Gig Harbor MiddayDr. Ann Bowers, Betty Lilienthal and Monica Wulff honored during the Rotary Star Awards, a collaboration of three local clubs.
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Harbor Happenings | Bremerton Symphony Orchestra visits Gig Harbor
Feb 25, 2025 | By: Charlee Glock-JacksonThe Tacoma Youth Symphony, featuring many locals, and Harbor Winds’ Young Artists Concert are also this weekend.
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Parent accused Gig Harbor girls basketball coaches of drinking alcohol during team trip to Florida
Feb 25, 2025 | By: Vince DiceThe coaches said they were never intoxicated, did not drive after drinking and were unclear on a district policy prohibiting drinking on sports trips.
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Summer Sounds at Skansie lineup set for 2025
Feb 24, 2025 | By: Gig Harbor Now StaffWho’s playing at Summer Sounds at Skansie in 2025? Here’s the lineup.
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Gig Harbor Now and Then | Gig Harbor Garage was the area’s first car dealership
Feb 24, 2025 | By: Greg SpadoniThe previous Gig Harbor Now and Then column gave the answers to four questions concerning early local telephones. One question that was not asked or answered last time concerns how to cope with one of today’s internet providers on the Gig Harbor and Key peninsulas, CenturyLink. Having had multiple extensive, unwanted, unsatisfying, and unfathomably bad experiences
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Three Peninsula wrestlers win individual titles, while Seahawks fall just short of team championship
Feb 23, 2025 | By: Dennis BrowneAlso this weekend: Gig Harbor’s Aiden Hammer won two titles and set two records at the Class 3A state swimming championships.
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