Whether you’re looking to be entertained or enlightened, Gig Harbor Now covers fun and informational events taking place in the community.
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The 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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“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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A discussion of African folktales, an octopus talk and a poetry reading — and that’s all just Wednesday.
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The new Gig Harbor resident spent a career being creative in the music and publishing industries. He’s not stopping now.
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The 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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Cross-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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The 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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Folks 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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“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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This often-redeveloped area of Tacoma centers on the McMenamins Elks Temple and includes the Old City Hall, Pantages and Rialto theaters and more.
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