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Gig Harbor Now reporters cover community events and efforts that benefit and entertain the community.

Here’s how to take Gig Harbor Now’s readership survey

Oct 03, 2023 | By:

As we begin our 25th month as a community-supported, nonprofit news publisher, Gig Harbor Now is looking for some feedback from our readers. Last week, we emailed a survey to people who subscribe to our weekly newsletter. We’re already getting a good response, but we know we have many readers who don’t subscribe to the

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Ramp meters on eastbound Highway 16 on-ramps to be activated soon

Oct 03, 2023 | By:

The Washington state Department of Transportation will activate ramp meters, which control traffic merging onto a freeway, starting Oct. 16 at Gig Harbor’s onramps to eastbound Highway 16.  The meters are already in place at the onramps to eastbound 16 at Highway 302, Burnham Drive, Wollochet Drive, Olympic Drive and 36th and 24th streets, according

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Harbor Happenings: Scarecrow Festival launches Halloween season

Oct 03, 2023 | By:

It’s beginning to look a lot like Halloween, with spooky critters appearing in front yards and piles of pumpkins at every grocery store entrance. The Scarecrow Festival at Sehmel Homestead Park from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 7, provides a preview of the holiday. The event includes hayrides and a petting zoo, pumpkin

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Teddy bears from Peninsula High School students bring comfort to Ukrainian children

Oct 02, 2023 | By:

When Iryna’s family evacuated their home because of the war in Ukraine, they left in such a hurry that they left the little girl’s pink plush elephant behind. The one she’d had since she was a baby. Now, she clings to a new favorite stuffie. Iryna is one of hundreds of Ukrainian children who received

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Korean ChuSeok Festival honors ancestors and celebrates harvest

Oct 02, 2023 | By:

Hundreds gathered in Skansie Park on Sept. 30 for Gig Harbor’s third annual Korean ChuSeok Festival, a free and family-friendly event sponsored by the Asia Pacific Cultural Center. Often referred to as the “Korean Thanksgiving”, ChuSeok (추석), or hangawi (한가위), is recognized as one of South Korea’s most important traditional holidays. The more than 2,000-year-old

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Sports Beat: Gig Harbor blanks Peninsula in soccer rivalry match

Sep 29, 2023 | By:

Two of the region’s top soccer programs faced off Tuesday, Sept. 26, when Gig Harbor (6-1-1, 6-1 South Sound Conference) and Peninsula (5-2-1, 5-1-1) met at Roy Anderson Field. The Tides scored early and held on with a fine defensive effort to win 3-0 in a matchup with huge conference ramifications. Peninsula could have jumped

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Voters to weigh pocketbooks, performance in PenMet taxing measure

Sep 29, 2023 | By:

PenMet Parks has placed on the ballot a measure to again raise the state lid on property taxes it can collect. A proposition on the Nov. 7 ballot seeks to restore the district’s property tax levy rate to 75 cents per $1,000 of assessed value in 2024 and allow increases of up to 6% for

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Gig Harbor Police Blotter: Weapons found in car on school grounds

Sep 28, 2023 | By:

Editor’s note: The Blotter is written based on information provided by Gig Harbor Police and Gig Harbor Fire & Medic One. A Gig Harbor Police officer investigating alleged threats made via social media on Sept. 25 ended up taking possession of weapons found in an 18-year-old’s vehicle at Henderson Bay High School. The suspect made no threats toward the school

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Paramedical tattoo artist helps cancer survivors feel like themselves again

Sep 28, 2023 | By:

Nichole Shervanick works her mini-tattoo machine deftly, applying pigment with a needle as fine as a strand of hair to the lips of client Becky Logan. A numbing agent keeps Logan comfortable, and she gives a thumbs-up when asked how she’s doing. When Shervanick has added the finishing touches, she hands Logan a mirror and

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In the Margins: Back to school in a classroom of river, sky and maybe even some fish

Sep 27, 2023 | By:

As our summer yielded to fall, I took myself back to school. My classroom was a quiet stretch of the Jefferson River in Montana, nestled between the Continental Divide to the west and the Tobacco Root Mountains to the east. Our annual eastward pilgrimage to this region is disguised as a family obligation to help

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