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

Gig Harbor Now and Then | Gig Harbor Garage was the area’s first car dealership

Feb 24, 2025 | By: Greg Spadoni

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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Three Peninsula wrestlers win individual titles, while Seahawks fall just short of team championship

Feb 23, 2025 | By:

Also this weekend: Gig Harbor’s Aiden Hammer won two titles and set two records at the Class 3A state swimming championships.

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Gig Harbor fire station, firefighters get a cameo in this movie with a message

Feb 21, 2025 | By:

“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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Health providers warily watching new administration’s executive orders

Feb 20, 2025 | By:

The Pierce County Health District and reports no impacts, so far, from the flurry of executive orders coming out of Washington, D.C.

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Mat Classic starts today; these local wrestlers will compete

Feb 20, 2025 | By:

The Peninsula girls wrestling team is a top contender to win a second consecutive state championship at Mat Classic.

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Gig Harbor Real Estate | Demand remains strong as home prices, new listings rise

Feb 19, 2025 | By: Alison Paoli

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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PenMet expanding Fox Island sandspit park

Feb 19, 2025 | By:

Two purchased parcels will add 3.6 acres and 265 feet of shoreline. The board also approved final design for a shoreline restoration.

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Gig Harbor boys fall a point short of upsetting top-seeded Auburn Mountainview

Feb 19, 2025 | By:

The Tides will learn their opening state tournament opponent on Sunday, Feb. 23.

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Legislation proposes a redesign of Washington’s state flag

Feb 19, 2025 | By: Jacquelyn Jimenez Romero, Washington State Standard

The bill’s Democratic sponsor says the current state flag is just … boring. Republican opponents say the proposal is ‘un-American.’

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Harbor Happenings | Lots to learn this week

Feb 18, 2025 | By:

A discussion of African folktales, an octopus talk and a poetry reading — and that’s all just Wednesday.

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