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With just days remaining until April 26, Harbor History Museum staff and volunteers are scrambling, often working behind a blue curtain. For the past two months, the dense fabric has barred public access to some museum favorites. The curtain opens this weekend, when the museum stages a grand opening of its new Maritime Gallery. The
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Benjamin Pardee, whose many swindles included selliong fish oil on Fox Island, was a real snake-oil salesman.
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Deputies found a 27-year-old woman dead at a home on Fox Drive. They arrested a 29-year-old man, who called in the death as a suicide.
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When a local fastpitch softball player’s gear went missing, the community stepped up to keep her in the game.
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The Shenandoah at Harbor History Museum was named for a Shenandoah that floated in the skids above the South Sounds in 1924. And that’s not hot air (we don’t think so, anyway).
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Also this week: Gig Harbor girls water polo avenges an earlier loss and local schools split a rivalry track meet.
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The City Council voted to name the new park after a Peninsula High graduate who ran in the Olympics twice and won many national championships.
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The legislation, awaiting Gov. Bob Ferguson’s signature, requires insurance companies to follow transparent criteria when making determinations about mental health and substance abuse treatments.
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The Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office identified Oliverio Huitron-Rosalez as one of the two people found dead following an April 8 fire on 14th Avenue NW near Gig Harbor. Huitron-Rosalez was 64 years old. The Medical Examiner’s office listed cause and manner of death as “pending.” It is not clear from the Medical Examiner’s brief
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Republicans in Congress want to aggressively cut the budget, and health care leaders fear they will trim Medicaid — which could devastate rural hospitals.
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