Community

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

Day Tripper | Wright Park and Tacoma’s Stadium District

Feb 26, 2025 | By: Mary Williams

Wright Park and the Stadium District in Tacoma were the setting for a number of 1990s movies.

15th annual Rotary Star Awards honor community spirit

Feb 25, 2025 | By: Rotary Club of Gig Harbor Midday

Dr. Ann Bowers, Betty Lilienthal and Monica Wulff honored during the Rotary Star Awards, a collaboration of three local clubs.

Harbor Happenings | Bremerton Symphony Orchestra visits Gig Harbor

Feb 25, 2025 | By: Charlee Glock-Jackson

The Tacoma Youth Symphony, featuring many locals, and Harbor Winds’ Young Artists Concert are also this weekend.

Parent accused Gig Harbor girls basketball coaches of drinking alcohol during team trip to Florida

Feb 25, 2025 | By: Vince Dice

The coaches said they were never intoxicated, did not drive after drinking and were unclear on a district policy prohibiting drinking on sports trips.

Summer Sounds at Skansie lineup set for 2025

Feb 24, 2025 | By: Gig Harbor Now Staff

Who’s playing at Summer Sounds at Skansie in 2025? Here’s the lineup.

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

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

Feb 23, 2025 | By: Dennis Browne

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

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

Feb 21, 2025 | By: Marsha Hart

“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.