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

Reassessment improves Fox Island fire rating

Mar 10, 2025 | By: Ed Friedrich

Homeowners insurance costs could be reduced now that a newly remodeled Station 53 will be staffed on most days.

Gig Harbor Now and Then | The homestead confusion

Mar 10, 2025 | By: Greg Spadoni

Even if it’s literally carved in stone, sometimes a homestead is not a homestead.

Crowd at Randall’s town hall asks why Democrats aren’t doing more

Mar 07, 2025 | By: Vince Dice

The crowd at the first-term representative’s town hall urged Randall and her Democratic colleagues to stand up to Trump.

Midday Rotary donates $10,000 to Food Backpacks 4 Kids

Mar 07, 2025 | By: Gig Harbor Midday Rotary

Food Backpacks 4 Kids works to ensure that children from low-income families do not go hungry, particularly during weekends and school breaks when free meals are not available.

Local measles vaccination rates remain high, though below pre-pandemic levels

Mar 07, 2025 | By: Conor Wilson

An overwhelming majority of students entering kindergarten on the Kitsap Peninsula are vaccinated against measles, state data shows. But immunization rates here and across the state remain below where they were before the pandemic. Students out of compliance — meaning they were neither vaccinated nor received an approved exemption — also rose among kindergarten classes

Council seeks comment on cultural access program proposal — and a sales tax to support it

Mar 06, 2025 | By: Vince Dice

The cultural access program would support local nonprofits and provide educational program. The city council must decide whether to put the question before voters.

A chum salmon swims upstream to spawn last fall.

Purdy Creek culvert projects completed to salmon’s liking

Mar 06, 2025 | By: Ed Friedrich

Bridges replaced state culverts under Highway 16 and the Highway 302 spur, though a couple county culverts still partially block fish.

Randall hosting town halls in Tacoma, Bremerton

Mar 05, 2025 | By: Vince Dice

The freshman representative will host town halls in Tacoma on March 7 and Bremerton on March 8, but the exact locations haven’t been announced.

Chris Sembroski, Gig Harbor’s civilian astronaut, chases dream of space flight for the masses

Mar 05, 2025 | By: Ted Kenney

Chris Sembroski of Gig Harbor has a better travel story than anyone you know: He went to space in 2021 on a SpaceX rocket.

Harbor Happenings | Restaurant Week starts soon; here’s who is participating

Mar 04, 2025 | By: Charlee Glock-Jackson

Also this week “Mauritius” at Peninsula High, an award-winning GHHS band performance and more.

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