Search Results for: Greg Spadoni

Behind the Finds | Every picture has a story

Mar 24, 2025

In their latest storytelling collaboration, Gig Harbor Now writers Tonya Strickland and Greg Spadoni launch a new series where they tell the stories behind old photographs sold at second hand stores.

Gig Harbor Now and Then | Behind the Finds: Every picture has a story (even if I have to make one up)

Mar 24, 2025

None of the stories Greg Spadoni wrote about the photos he found in a second-hand store are true. But they are funny.

Two In Tow & On The Go | Playing Nature Bingo with two new flora fans

Jul 12, 2024

Lush and green or prickly and purple – Washington people LOVE their plants. Rosedale native Greg Spadoni and the kids work to identify the peninsula’s diverse array of big leaf maple, Douglas fir, wild huckleberry and more at Sehmel Homestead Park with a captivating game of Gig Harbor Nature Bingo! Follow along and download your own free Bingo card here.

Two in Tow & On the Go | Tacoma’s Mountaineer Tree is a giant of the forest

Jun 13, 2025

The Mountaineer Tree is an approximately 218-foot-tall living legend that’s called Tacoma home since the 1500s.

Gig Harbor Now and Then | A nationally famous Gig Harbor fishing boat worker

Jun 02, 2025

Our previous Gig Harbor Now and Then column featured two questions of local history, both concerning Gig Harbor’s commercial fishing fleet. They are: Of all the men and women who worked on Gig Harbor commercial fishing boats, from 1868 to the present day, who was the best known during their time on a boat? Of all

Gig Harbor Now and Then | The best-known Gig Harbor fishing boat worker

May 19, 2025

He or she played the part of The Wind in their elementary school’s production of the play Rumpelstiltskin, which should make the answer obvious.

Behind the Finds | Photos tell story of a family, a house and a neighborhood

May 13, 2025

John and Leta Wolford were bound for the west coast, chasing the promise of steady work with the Northern Pacific Railroad in Tacoma when they moved into 5611 S. Oakes Street in Tacoma. See the changes to the house over the years.

Gig Harbor Now and Then | Behind the Finds: Chuck Sharman

May 05, 2025

Chuck Sharman and Bob Mitchell graduated from high school together, joined the Navy together and were reported dead together in Pearl Harbor. They lived remarkable lives after that.

Gig Harbor Now and Then | Notable scoundrels of the peninsula

Apr 21, 2025

Benjamin Pardee, whose many swindles included selliong fish oil on Fox Island, was a real snake-oil salesman.

Gig Harbor Now and Then | A freight railroad for Gig Harbor

Apr 07, 2025

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Frank C. Ross had several grandiose plans to build a freight railroad through Gig Harbor. None of them came especially close to fruition.