Gig Harbor Now and Then | The homestead confusion
Mar 10, 2025 | By: Greg SpadoniEven if it’s literally carved in stone, sometimes a homestead is not a homestead.
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Council seeks comment on cultural access program proposal — and a sales tax to support it
Mar 06, 2025 | By: Vince DiceThe cultural access program would support local nonprofits and provide educational program. The city council must decide whether to put the question before voters.
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Harbor Happenings | Restaurant Week starts soon; here’s who is participating
Mar 04, 2025 | By: Charlee Glock-JacksonAlso this week “Mauritius” at Peninsula High, an award-winning GHHS band performance and more.
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Two In Tow & On The Go | Disneyland … in the rain
Feb 28, 2025 | By: Tonya StricklandWe escaped the 28-degree days in Gig Harbor over Mid-Winter Break in favor of taking Clara and Wyatt to Disneyland for the first time!
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Day Tripper | Wright Park and Tacoma’s Stadium District
Feb 26, 2025 | By: Mary WilliamsWright Park and the Stadium District in Tacoma were the setting for a number of 1990s movies.
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Harbor Happenings | Bremerton Symphony Orchestra visits Gig Harbor
Feb 25, 2025 | By: Charlee Glock-JacksonThe Tacoma Youth Symphony, featuring many locals, and Harbor Winds’ Young Artists Concert are also this weekend.
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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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