Gig Harbor Now reporters provide information about where people can eat, shop and seek professional services, which businesses are opening or closing, and explain local trends and their relation to the national economy.
Invitation Bookshop is moving to Judson Street, while a nearby craft beer tasting room has a new owner and a new look. Invitation is still open in the Uptown neighborhood, but owner Allyson Howard hopes to complete the move to 3119 Judson Street by next month. Meanwhile, Matt Burnett recently purchased the former Gig Harbor
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Food Backpacks 4 Kids works to ensure that children from low-income families do not go hungry, particularly during weekends and school breaks when free meals are not available.
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The 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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The Gig Harbor-based distillery’s stock dropped to just $1.08 in February after opening at $4 last year.
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Rush Companies is taking legal action on two fronts, attempting to maintain a higher density on property it owns in Purdy and access to urban services there.
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PenMet has been authorized to pursue the 14 acres it doesn’t own through eminent domain while owner ZTM Holdings has filed suit to kick the parks district off the property.
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The median price for a single-family home in the greater Gig Harbor area rose by 1.8% from December to January, reaching a median sale price record of $915,000.
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Longtime Gig Harbor resident, window manufacturing titan and philanthropist James “Jim” Milgard died Friday, Jan. 31, at his home in Indian Wells, California. He was 84. Milgard’s father Maurice and older brother Gary launched Milgard Glass in a small building on South Tacoma Way in 1958. Jim joined the family business in 1961 at age
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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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A proposal to rebuild the historic Ancich Dock would remove creosote-soaked pilings and provide more light for marine habitat. But neighbors have concerns about whether it provides enough parking and whether the new marina would infringe on the future Commercial Fishing Homeport.
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