Purdy paving to begin Sunday night
Apr 11, 2024Drivers leaving and entering Purdy will be detoured via the Highway 16-Burnham Drive interchange for a couple weeks. The work will occur at night.
Gig Harbor Real Estate | Home prices hit a new record
Apr 10, 2024The Gig Harbor real estate market was hot in March, marked by significant milestones and notable trends. According to data from the NWMLS, the median sale price of a single-family home between the Purdy and Narrows Bridges, including Fox Island, soared to a record high of $870,000 in March, underscoring the continued resilience of the
Gig Harbor Now and Then | Basketball in the old days was more shutout than shootout
Apr 08, 2024With the 2024 NCAA women’s basketball championship game having been played Sunday, April 7, and the men’s title being decided tonight, it’s timely that today’s Gig Harbor Now and Then column is all about local basketball — over a hundred years’ worth. Revisiting early basketball scores Back on Sept. 11, 2023, we presented the true but
Gig Harbor Now and Then | An April Fool’s true or false quiz
Apr 01, 2024Although not scheduled for a new column this week, Gig Harbor Now and Then hereby presents either a bonus issue or three completely unnecessary pages, depending upon how it’s received. Traditionally, April First is for spoofing, tricking and practical joking. But we’re not doing any of that. We’re going to tell you up front what
Day Tripper | Olympia is worth a visit, whether or not the Legislature is in session
Mar 28, 2024A couple of decades ago, in the middle of a Midwest road trip, I realized that I was fascinated by state capitals. On that particular trip, we were traveling from Madison, Wisconsin, to Little Rock, Arkansas, with a stop at Springfield, Illinois. On the way, we visited a number of other cities and towns, both
Woman dies in collision on Reid Drive
Mar 25, 2024A 31-year-old woman died in a collision near the intersection of Reid Drive NW and 42nd Street NW early on Friday, March 22, according to the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office. The woman was driving south on Reid around 2 a.m., approaching the sharp turn just before Reid becomes 14th Avenue NW. A sheriff’s office spokesman
Gig Harbor Now and Then | The answer to this burning question about a ferry
Mar 25, 2024Gig Harbor Now and Then’s question last time concerned the first ferry boat to serve on the Gig Harbor-Tacoma run, beginning in 1919. After only a few months, the City of Tacoma was taken out of service while a roof was constructed over its car deck. Why did the car ferry City of Tacoma need
Photo gallery: Gig Harbor High School soccer
Mar 22, 2024Click on any image below to see a gallery of photos from Gig Harbor High School’s 2-1 loss to Central Kitsap on Thursday, March 21, in Silverdale. Photos by Meegan M. Reid of the Kitsap Sun newspaper of Bremerton.
Lift at Gig Harbor Marina and Boatyard put to the test
Mar 21, 2024On the Gig Harbor waterfront Thursday morning, what looked like an unseasonal champion pumpkin weigh-in proved to be just a recently mandated test of boat yard travel lifts. While a gaggle of yard workers, state officials and marine industry representatives looked on, a crane inspection company sucked a total of 133,332 pounds of harbor water
Gig Harbor Now and Then | Early vehicles really cranked up the injuries
Mar 11, 2024Gig Harbor Now and Then’s last question of local history concerned a list of injuries, mostly broken or dislocated bones in the arm or wrist, from the 1920s to the 1940s. The three big clues given were that the accidents happened to far more men than women, were not seasonal and most often happened just