The Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office identified Alejandro Huitron Campos, 31, of Gig Harbor as one of two people found dead following the fire on April 8.
With just days remaining until April 26, Harbor History Museum staff and volunteers are scrambling, often working behind a blue curtain. For the past two months, the dense fabric has barred public access to some museum favorites. The curtain opens this weekend, when the museum stages a grand opening of its new Maritime Gallery. The
Benjamin Pardee, whose many swindles included selliong fish oil on Fox Island, was a real snake-oil salesman.
Deputies found a 27-year-old woman dead at a home on Fox Drive. They arrested a 29-year-old man, who called in the death as a suicide.
The Shenandoah at Harbor History Museum was named for a Shenandoah that floated in the skids above the South Sounds in 1924. And that’s not hot air (we don’t think so, anyway).
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.
The Harbor History Museum’s Maritime Gallery, featuring the purse seiner Shenandoah, opens April 26.
Joel’s Law, now a decade old, allows family members to petition for involuntary mental health treatment. The number of cases involving Joel’s Law petitions has increased statewide by 266% since 2020.
Day Tripper columnist Mary Williams opted to see her hometown through a tourists’ eyes this month.
None of the stories Greg Spadoni wrote about the photos he found in a second-hand store are true. But they are funny.
