Summer Sounds at Skansie lineup set for 2025
Feb 24, 2025 | By: Gig Harbor Now StaffWho’s playing at Summer Sounds at Skansie in 2025? Here’s the lineup.
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Gig Harbor Now and Then | Gig Harbor Garage was the area’s first car dealership
Feb 24, 2025 | By: Greg SpadoniThe previous Gig Harbor Now and Then column gave the answers to four questions concerning early local telephones. One question that was not asked or answered last time concerns how to cope with one of today’s internet providers on the Gig Harbor and Key peninsulas, CenturyLink. Having had multiple extensive, unwanted, unsatisfying, and unfathomably bad experiences
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Gig Harbor fire station, firefighters get a cameo in this movie with a message
Feb 21, 2025 | By: Marsha Hart“Sense of Emergency,” filmed partly at GHFMO’s Station 51, focuses on how CPR can save a life — and on the trauma paramedics and other responders face.
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Harbor Happenings | Lots to learn this week
Feb 18, 2025 | By: Charlee Glock-JacksonA discussion of African folktales, an octopus talk and a poetry reading — and that’s all just Wednesday.
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Rick Bleiweiss still rocking and writing after move to Heron’s Key
Feb 12, 2025 | By: Marsha HartThe new Gig Harbor resident spent a career being creative in the music and publishing industries. He’s not stopping now.
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Harbor Happenings | Warm up with some Chowder on Feb. 15
Feb 11, 2025 | By: Charlee Glock-JacksonThe Greater Gig Harbor Foundation’s Chowder Social, with dishes prepared by top local chefs, is Saturday at the Vintage Aero Museum.
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Gig Harbor Now and Then | The local history of telephones, cars and telephones in cars
Feb 10, 2025 | By: Greg SpadoniCross-Narrows phone service has been available since 1907. To call a car dealer, people in those times needed only to dial ‘1’.
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Harbor Happenings | Free trees available on Saturday
Feb 04, 2025 | By: Charlee Glock-JacksonThe Tacoma Tree Foundation and the Greater Gig Harbor Foundation’s EnviroCorp are holding a tree giveaway at Donkey Creek Park from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 8.
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Two in Tow & On The Go | Plush animal scooters at the Kitsap Mall
Jan 31, 2025 | By: Tonya StricklandFolks can drive electric ride-on cars and plush animals through the inside of the Kitsap Mall in this kid-friendly activity.
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New granite pavers honoring Gig Harbor’s fishing fleet are meant to stand the test of time
Jan 30, 2025 | By: Ted Kenney“Written in stone” means something is permanent, indelible. Gig Harbor commercial fishermen hope they’ve captured that characteristic in new granite paver stones installed this winter at a plaza in Ancich Waterfront Park to honor the city’s fishing fleet. Each glossy 2-foot-square stone is engraved with the name of two Gig Harbor fishing boats — from
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