Harbor Happenings | Celebrate fall and launch pumpkins at Scarecrow Festival
Sep 30, 2025 | By: Charlee Glock-JacksonPenMet’s annual Scarecrow Festival takes place from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 4, at Sehmel Homestead Park.
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Arts Commission may re-issue call for Harbor Arbor Art
Sep 29, 2025 | By: Carolyn BickThe Harbor Arbor Art project involves sculptures in the city’s Grandview Forest park. The sculptor wants to do the work at his studio.
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Day Tripper | Taking a peak around the place where Twin Peaks was filmed
Sep 24, 2025 | By: Mary WilliamsDay Tripper columnist Mary Williams ventures to North Bend, which has the last Starbuck’s before Snoqualmie Pass, some aging outlet malls and a cult classic TV history.
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Harbor Happenings | ChuSeok, Film Festival, breast cancer event highlight a packed weekend
Sep 23, 2025 | By: Charlee Glock-JacksonHere’s what happening around the Harbor on the first weekend of fall.
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Take a peek inside the artists’ studios this weekend
Sep 18, 2025 | By: Charlee Glock-JacksonThe annual Open Studio Tour is Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with 54 artists participating at 23 studios.
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Drone Team’s first performance has Peninsula School District buzzing
Sep 17, 2025 | By: Christina T HenryThe Drone Team takes to the skies on Thursday (Sept. 17) at Gig Harbor High School for its first performance.
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Mike Mitchell’s personal Vietnam story debuting at Gig Harbor Film Festival
Sep 16, 2025 | By: Carolyn BickMike Mitchell of Gig Harbor created a one-man show about his experience as a Vietnam War veteran. It hits the big screen next week.
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Harbor Happenings | Open house set on Crescent Creek Park, Masonic Lodge
Sep 16, 2025 | By: Charlee Glock-JacksonAlso this week: The Open Studio Tour, a geoduck discussion, a Mystery Movie and more.
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Young filmmakers tell little-known story of a captured Southern Resident orca
Sep 15, 2025 | By: Carolyn Bick“Echoes of the Sound,” a documentary about the capture of a young orca in Vaughn Bay in 1968, shows at the upcoming Gig Harbor Film Festival.
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Two in Tow & On the Go | A towering view, with a visit from Mr. (or Mrs.) Chonky
Sep 12, 2025 | By: Tonya StricklandWho knew a fun afternoon of seal-spotting and crane-watching with two kids and a local dude who counts The Three Stooges as his personal heroes could double as a crash-course in global trade?
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