Gig Harbor Now reporters chase down news that affects community residents, providing facts with context and perspective.
When Iryna’s family evacuated their home because of the war in Ukraine, they left in such a hurry that they left the little girl’s pink plush elephant behind. The one she’d had since she was a baby. Now, she clings to a new favorite stuffie. Iryna is one of hundreds of Ukrainian children who received
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Click on any photo below to view a gallery of images from the 2023 ChuSeok Festival:
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Editor’s note: Patsy Surh O’Connell organizes the local ChuSeok Festival. An earlier version of this story misstated that fact. Hundreds gathered in Skansie Park on Sept. 30 for Gig Harbor’s third annual Korean ChuSeok Festival, a free and family-friendly event sponsored by the Asia Pacific Cultural Center. Often referred to as the “Korean Thanksgiving”, ChuSeok
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Two of the region’s top soccer programs faced off Tuesday, Sept. 26, when Gig Harbor (6-1-1, 6-1 South Sound Conference) and Peninsula (5-2-1, 5-1-1) met at Roy Anderson Field. The Tides scored early and held on with a fine defensive effort to win 3-0 in a matchup with huge conference ramifications. Peninsula could have jumped
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Editor’s note: This story has been updated since it was first posted. It now includes additional responses from PenMet to statements made by opponents of the lid lift, specifically about overtime costs associated with the end of the parks host program. It also clarifies that the state Auditor’s Office issued a “finding” in a PenMet
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Editor’s note: The Blotter is written based on information provided by Gig Harbor Police and Gig Harbor Fire & Medic One. A Gig Harbor Police officer investigating alleged threats made via social media on Sept. 25 ended up taking possession of weapons found in an 18-year-old’s vehicle at Henderson Bay High School. The suspect made no threats toward the school
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Nichole Shervanick works her mini-tattoo machine deftly, applying pigment with a needle as fine as a strand of hair to the lips of client Becky Logan. A numbing agent keeps Logan comfortable, and she gives a thumbs-up when asked how she’s doing. When Shervanick has added the finishing touches, she hands Logan a mirror and
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As our summer yielded to fall, I took myself back to school. My classroom was a quiet stretch of the Jefferson River in Montana, nestled between the Continental Divide to the west and the Tobacco Root Mountains to the east. Our annual eastward pilgrimage to this region is disguised as a family obligation to help
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Sue Scanlon beat breast cancer in her 40s. By comparison, learning to ride a motorcycle in her mid-50s wasn’t that big a deal. She and other survivors created the Wigged Out Ride after Scanlon and her husband Pat discovered a passion for motorcycling in 2014. And that is a big deal. This year’s ride, which
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While most Western countries mark the fall equinox as the height of the harvest season, in Korea it’s celebrated with a full-blown festival known as ChuSeok. Gig Harbor’s third annual ChuSeok Festival happens from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 30, at Skansie Park. It follows a similar event held in Tacoma last week.
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