Community

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

Locust Cider closing four tap rooms, but keeping Gig Harbor location open

Dec 30, 2025 | By: Vince Dice

Gig Harbor-based Locust Cider grew quickly before the pandemic, inflation and changing consumer habits forced a recent retreat.

Harbor Happenings | Plunge into 2026

Dec 30, 2025 | By: Charlee Glock-Jackson

The annual Olalla Polar Bear Plunge starts at around noon on New Year’s Day.

Outgoing councilmember Woock plans to ‘unplug’ from city politics for a while

Dec 29, 2025 | By: Carolyn Bick

After two terms on the council, Jeni Woock hopes to focus on her artistic ventures after leaving office.

Gig Harbor Now and Then | The big tree the Meyers did fall

Dec 29, 2025 | By: Greg Spadoni

The story of how a group of friends cut down a very big tree in 1982, in annoying rhyming verse.

Freestanding ERs proliferate on the peninsula

Dec 23, 2025 | By: Conor Wilson

Freestanding ERs offer emergency care in buildings detached from a hospital campus, and three of them are now open in Kitsap County. Here’s how they work.

Harbor Happenings | Christmas Eve services at Gig Harbor churches

Dec 23, 2025 | By: Charlee Glock-Jackson

Christmas Eve services, the gnome hunt continues and holiday movies.

Waterfront Alliance promotes Clare Dunis to executive director

Dec 22, 2025 | By: Vince Dice

Dunis, the organization’s special projects and outreach manager, replaces Carrianne Ekberg, who is stepping down to spend time with her young family.

Ferguson proposes $3 billion plan to preserve bridges and roads, build new ferries

Dec 22, 2025 | By: Jerry Cornfield and Jake Goldstein-Street/Washington State Standard

The governor would raise the money with the sale of bonds backed by proceeds from a slew of new and increased taxes and fees lawmakers approved this year.