Two In Tow & On The Go | Shoot your shot in Ocean5’s laser tag arena
Mar 01, 2024 | By: Tonya StricklandThe laser tag industry is approaching its 40th anniversary this month, but a $15 game at Gig Harbor’s Ocean5 never gets old.
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Actorcraft, a new acting school, brings some Hollywood to the Harbor
Mar 01, 2024 | By: Julie Warrick AmmannHave you ever dreamt of being in the movies, or auditioning for a play or commercial? This is for you. Next week, Gig Harbor will welcome the opening of Actorcraft, a new acting school founded by professional actors and educators Jeremy Kent Jackson and his partner Adrianne Alvarez-Jackson. Drawing on their years of experience working
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Gig Harbor City Council puts sales tax increase before voters
Feb 29, 2024 | By: Vince Dice and Charlee Glock-JacksonThe Gig Harbor City Council voted unanimously on Monday, Feb. 26, to place a proposed sales tax increase before city voters on the Aug. 6 primary election ballot. The 0.1 percent sales tax increase would bring the city’s overall sales tax rate to 9.0 percent. The city would use proceeds from the increase to fund
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Jennifer Preston | Crafting community — start with art
Feb 29, 2024 | By: Jennifer PrestonFor health, wellness and fun, it’s time to push the boundaries of community engagement beyond annual holiday tree lightings and parades. It’s time to blend public art and craft community. What is public art? When people think of “public art,” they may imagine an abstract sculpture located near a civic center. Or perhaps a figure,
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Growing chorus of voices decries racism, bullying in Peninsula schools
Feb 28, 2024 | By: Christina T HenryOver the past month, the Peninsula School Board has heard a stream of complaints about racism and bullying. The speakers and incidents they describe appear to be unrelated except for the theme: Discrimination against students who are different. On Jan. 30, a representative of Gig Harbor High School’s Black Student Union reported ongoing racial slurs
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Day Tripper | Tacoma’s Museum District
Feb 28, 2024 | By: Mary WilliamsMany of us think of Tacoma as the town where Highway 16 merges with Interstate 5, allowing us to travel north to Seattle or south to Olympia and beyond. And many of us of a certain age still harbor memories of the days when you knew you were in Tacoma because of the infamous “aroma
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Harbor Happenings | Delicious soup, beautiful bowls and a good cause
Feb 27, 2024 | By: Charlee Glock-JacksonBuy a bowl, fill it with soup and know that you’re contributing to a good cause on Saturday, March 2, during the Empty Bowls event staged by the Gig Harbor chapter of Altrusa International. Local potters have created more than 800 bowls and a dozen restaurants are donating soup. Empty Bowls participants buy a handmade
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International Relief Club at Peninsula High seeks to ease pain abroad
Feb 27, 2024 | By: Christina T HenryThe new International Relief Club at Peninsula High aims to provide help for world problems that often don’t get much attention.
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A Goldmine in Gig Harbor
Feb 26, 2024 | By: Julie Warrick AmmannFrom Pokemon cards to fossils to meteorites, you won’t find a more eclectic set of items for sale than at Goldmine Coins & Relics.
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Gig Harbor Now and Then | Cold, hard facts about ice delivery in 1931
Feb 26, 2024 | By: Greg SpadoniOur previous column’s subject transitioned from a failure to deliver fire to the successful delivery of ice. The Gig Harbor Now and Then local history question was: What was the name of the ice delivery man in Gig Harbor in 1931? Answer: Let’s see, what are the most obvious possibilities? Ice, Icicle, Cold, Chill, Cool,
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