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.
For her birthday, a granddaughter gave Mary DesMarais a “My Grandma is …” card. The 7-year-old granddaughter wrote out answers to questions about what her grandmother does and doesn’t like. In the “doesn’t like” category: Working, because “that means she can’t see me.” “That was affirmation,” DesMarais said. “It is time” to retire. DesMarais, the
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Where do buyers see your home first? ONLINE! Currently the market has tipped to favor buyers. There are more options for them to buy (110 homes in Gig Harbor and 62 on the Key Peninsula as of Jan. 3) and the most compelling home will win the hearts and money of the buyers. This means
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Gig Harbor Now recently hired Jenny Wellman as its first executive director. Wellman previously served as treasurer of Gig Harbor Now’s board of directors. She will step down from the board to assume the executive director role. Gig Harbor Now is an independent, nonprofit news website covering Gig Harbor and the surrounding area. It is
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Clipped to a strawberry box and sandwiched between bags of mistletoe and the cash register hangs a legal document with a handwritten message. “We are being evicted”, “Landlords shutting us down,” it reads. In less than two weeks, the open-air Patterson’s Market will close after 43 years of business. An attorney representing the property landlords
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Editor’s note: Danielle Kartes’ appearance was canceled due to illness. The Sugar Plum Fairy has arrived in the harbor, in cocktail form. She’s pink, sweet, and bright like the splendor of the season. To balance her sweet side is the grapefruit and pomelo-flavored Florescence vodka, topped off with fresh rosemary and cranberries, all set in
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There is still time to become a founding member of Gig Harbor Now’s Leadership Circle. What is the Leadership Circle? It is our most impactful donation program. Donate by the end of December to be part of this exclusive opportunity. Here’s how it works: The Leadership Circle is Gig Harbor Nowʼs giving program designed to
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Ho- Ho-Home for the Holidays! Here are your real estate hot takes and look Inside Gig Harbor Housing from Paige Schulte of Neighborhood Experts Real Estate and Team Schulte & Co. The answer to the trending question this month is definitely, YES! You can have decor up when selling your home during the holidays. I’d
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Since its founding in 1999, Gig Harbor-based The Russell Family Foundation made sustainability and environmental stewardship a top priority. The foundation was formed after the Russell family sold investment and financial services firm Frank Russell Co. to Northwestern Mutual Life for an estimated $1 billion. Since then, the foundation has operated with a mission it
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Personal information of patients at St. Anthony Hospital in Gig Harbor may have been compromised during a ransomware attack against the medical center’s parent company this fall, CommonSpirit Health announced. The company detected the ransomware attack on Oct. 2. It forced St. Anthony and other Virginia Mason Franciscan Health facilities to take its medical records
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Rigging units, silks, hoops, and ropes hang from the ceiling of a studio space in the lower level of Narrows Business Park in Gig Harbor. Young people — and some not-so-young —climb, twist, and seemingly defy gravity as they practice acrobatics and circus arts. They wrap their feet, legs, arms, and bodies around the apparatuses
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