Opinion

From our Board of Directors | Much depends on the next two weeks

Dec 17, 2024 | By: Gig Harbor Now Board of Directors

We need to hit our NewsMatch goal by the end of 2024. If you value our coverage, please help.

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Letter to the editor | A park for the ages and for all ages

Dec 16, 2024 | By: Bill Sehmel

Letter to the editor by Bill Sehmel of Gig Harbor.

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Letter to the editor | Status of ‘good-faith negotiations’ between PenMet and ZTM

Dec 16, 2024 | By: Craig McLaughlin

Letter to the editor by Craig McLaughlin of Fox Island

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Why we need your help now more than ever

Dec 12, 2024 | By:

We are hitting crunch time for our 2024 NewsMatch donation drive. If you appreciate the work we do, and want it to continue in 2025, please donate today.

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Letter to the Editor | An opportunity to serve

Dec 04, 2024 | By: Jeni Woock

The Gig Harbor City Council needs your help. As you are aware, Tracie Markley resigned her position as Gig Harbor Mayor. Council member Mary Barber was appointed to serve out Tracie’s term as Mayor. This means that Mary Barber’s term on the city council must be filled. You are needed to apply. The appointment for

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Letter to the Editor | PenMet’s Madrona website postings

Dec 04, 2024 | By: Craig McLaughlin

The “Threat” PenMet has posted a lot of information on its website regarding Madrona — even devoting an entire page just to the golf course. I’d like to comment on many of these postings, but there’s so much to say, I’ll have to publish my comments in more than one Letter to the Editor. In

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Letter to the editor | Impact of Madrona lease termination

Nov 25, 2024 | By: Craig McLaughlin

PenMet terminated the Tysons’ Madrona lease then approved a resolution to attempt to obtain ZTM’s 14 acres using the power of Eminent Domain.  What have they accomplished with these two moves? The operation of Madrona is continuing to suffer from an increasing lack of attention Stutsman’s and Hackers’ employees remain on pins and needles about

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Letter to the Editor | City comp plan update lacks historic preservation element

Nov 25, 2024 | By: Lita Dawn Stanton

Accuracy… Equity… and Transparency… It’s what we expect from City Government. It’s what I’d expect of Staff’s 2024 update of the Comprehensive Plan that is used to guide our community for the next 20 years. Yet when I testified at two recent Planning Commission meetings, sent multiples letters and made countless calls to Staff about

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Letter to the Editor | Purdy should be removed from Gig Harbor’s UGA

Nov 22, 2024 | By: Kit Kuhn

Letter to the editor by Kit Kuhn

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Letter to the Editor | Republicans plan to cut key programs

Nov 22, 2024 | By: Susan Mackey

Letter to the editor by Susan Mackey of Gig Harbor

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