PenMet honors Olympic Civic Services with second Lilienthal Award
Dec 03, 2025The Lilienthal Award recognizes “exceptional advocates” that contribute to PenMet’s mission. This year, it went to OCS and founders Joe Hillyer and Gary Parker.
Gig Harbor Now and Then | Dial M for muddled
Dec 01, 2025If you had an emergency in the pre-911 era, all you had to do was call one of several multi-digit phone numbers depending on what service you needed and what jurisdiction you were in. And the numbers changed routinely.
City’s Christmas tree needed emergency surgery, stat
Nov 28, 2025The patient’s prognosis is bright after two city employees, who don’t even play doctors on TV, performed emergency surgery.
Day Tripper | Shelton is Christmas Town, USA — but not before Thanksgiving
Nov 26, 2025Day Tripper columnist Mary Williams went in search of Christmas Town, USA. She may have jumped the gun a bit.
Gig Harbor Real Estate | Prices slip slightly as market turns neutral
Nov 25, 2025For the first time in more than two years, the median sale price of a single-family home in the greater Gig Harbor area fell in October.
Great Peninsula Conservancy buys Butterfield Forest, adjacent to Sehmel Park
Nov 24, 2025The conservancy will transfer ownership of the 21-acre Butterfield Forest, located south of the park, to PenMet Parks.
Gig Harbor Now and Then | Lawrence of Purdy
Nov 17, 2025A sign of history Earlier this year, Gig Harbor Now columnist Tonya Strickland and I started a series of stories titled Behind the Finds. They explore the lives of people in photographs found in random places. This entry in Gig Harbor Now and Then is so similar, it could be called Behind the Signs. There
Gig Harbor grad Davis Alexander to play on Canadian football’s biggest stage
Nov 12, 2025Former Tides star Davis Alexander’s Montreal Alouettes face the Saskatchewan Roughriders in the Grey Cup, the CFL’s championship game, on Sunday.
Gig Harbor Now notice of 2025 annual meeting
Nov 05, 2025Gig Harbor Now notice of annual meeting
Gig Harbor Now and Then | Meet the Swede who pioneered flight on the peninsula
Nov 03, 2025Gustav Stromer likely built the first “aeroplane” in the Gig Harbor area, though he shipped it to Tacoma before it took off.
