Gig Harbor Now reporters chase down news that affects community residents, providing facts with context and perspective.
Commencement Bank, which opened a loan production office in the Peninsula Shopping Center on Judson Street in August, recently received clearance from federal regulators to operate a full-service branch there. That won’t be its permanent home, though. The Tacoma-based regional bank plans to move to the former Harbor General Store building on Pioneer Way after
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Bundle up and learn about the critters that live in Gig Harbor bay on Saturday, Nov. 4, during this month’s Pier into the Night. Starting at 6 p.m. at the Maritime Pier next to the Tides Tavern, divers will transmit underwater images onto a big screen on the pier while Harbor WildWatch biologists discuss what’s
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A passion for community and craft is the inspiration behind Gig Harbor’s latest retail store to open on Harborview Drive, Local Whimsy. Local Makers founder Caasi Dickens and Salena Ausburn, plant stylist and owner of Whimsy Plant Co, have joined forces to offer more than just a marketplace for locally crafted products and plants. They’ve
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The two Phase 3 soccer fields could be on the same level or at different elevations. If at on height, a high school-sized baseball diamond could be overlaid on them.
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The Peninsula Seahawk (4-5, 4-3 South Sound Conference) football team played the Timberline Blazers (5-4, 4-3) on Friday, Oct. 27, for a chance to claim the league’s third place playoff spot, but fell to the Blazers at home, 35-0. The Seahawks, Blazers and Capital Cougars all ended the regular season with 4-3 SSC records. Those
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Both local football teams are in action tonight (Friday, Oct. 27). The Gig Harbor Tides (7-1, 6-0 South Sound Conference) travel to Yelm (8-0, 6-0) to take on the Tornados for a conference title, while the Peninsula Seahawks look to clinch third place in the conference and a Class 3A playoff spot against the Timberline
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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. Gig Harbor Police arrested a 21-year-old Gig Harbor man on Oct. 19 on suspicion of hit and run with injury, five days after he allegedly hit a bicyclist with his car on 35th Avenue.
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The Gig Harbor football team has compiled an impressive 7-1 record this season, including six straight wins against South Sound Conference opponents, en route to a No. 10 ranking in the WIAA Class 3A RPI standings. They have done it in impressive fashion, winning South Sound Conference games by an average of 24 points per
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Have you heard about the sinking of the Walrus? It was only one of the greatest maritime near-disasters in Puget Sound history. There’s no memorial to it, as not-quite-calamities don’t usually get one. But among the survivors, and those with them at Catholic Youth Organization’s (CYO) Camp Blanchet on Raft Island in the summer of
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Residents on the east side of Lay Inlet enjoy looking across the bay at All Saints Camp and Retreat Center, a heavily forested stretch of Raft Island shoreline that provides a home to wildlife and brilliant fall colors. The view hasn’t changed in decades. Neighbors might have worried earlier this month, when barges and heavy
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