Search Results for: TONYA STRICKLAND

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.

14 Names to Remember | Willard Chessman

May 23, 2024

14 Names to Remember Project. Layout by Tonya Strickland. Historic graphics attributed.

PenLight celebrates a century

Jul 16, 2025

Peninsula Light Co. was formed in 1925. Today, the utility continues to provide power to Gig Harbor, the Key Peninsula, Fox Island, Raft Island, Herron Island and a small portion of Ollala.

Harbor Happenings | Summer Art Festival at Sehmel Homestead Park

Jul 15, 2025

The Summer Art Festival, Psychedelic Resource Fair, another Indivisible Gig Harbor Protest and more are planned for this week.

Gig Harbor Now and Then | A public service for the punctuation-addicted

Jul 14, 2025

Whats’ the deal,, with “people” who OVERUSE punctuation!!?

Two In Tow’s Kid Picks | Family-friendly July events

Jul 11, 2025

Summer is finally here and there’s no shortage of kid-approved adventures to check out near and far. From new baby meerkats to bouncy obstacle courses, here are some options to wow the kiddos in your life in the coming weeks.

Harbor Happenings | Time to start searching for Round Rock entries

Jul 01, 2025

The Harbor History Museum will accept Round Rocks Contest submissions later this month, but it’s not to early to start looking for them.

Gig Harbor Now and Then | The lost machinist

Jun 30, 2025

Albert Fleuss, a machinist whose work was critical to Gig Harbor’s early fishing fleet, deserves the same recognition as his successor.

Behind The Finds, Part 6: Don Wolford and his three-piece suits

Jun 30, 2025

In the early 1900s when Tacoma was still figuring out what kind of city to be, Don Wolford knew exactly who he was. He became a longtime Tacoma businessman, married his longtime girlfriend, had a child and scored a beachfront property.

Gig Harbor Now and Then | A glimpse of Gig Harbor in the 1970s

Jun 16, 2025

Greg Spadoni compares scenes from “Hit,” the movie filmed in Gig Harbor, with current-day photos of the same locations.