Introducing Two in Tow’s Kid Picks
Mar 28, 2025 | By: Tonya StricklandIntroducing: Kid Picks! 🎉 Where we list family-friendly events worthy of your kid-calendar.
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How the current site of Gig Harbor High School nearly became a cemetery
Mar 27, 2025 | By: Ted KenneyA funeral home wanted to build a cemetery on Rosedale Street in the mid-1960s. The community organized to stop it.
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Gig Harbor police chief Busey announces retirement
Mar 27, 2025 | By: Ed FriedrichGig Harbor Police Chief Kelly Busey will retire on June 23, the city announced Thursday, March 27. Busey, 60, joined the force as an entry-level officer in 1991 and worked his way up to chief in 2014. “The city has treated me very fairly, graciously,” Busey said Thursday morning. “I had a series of opportunities.”
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Texas mystery-developer plans 31 houses next door to Gig Harbor High School
Mar 26, 2025 | By: Ted KenneyThe project is proposed for 39 acres on Rosedale Street, directly west of Gig Harbor High. Developers are asking to deviate from city rules on altering topography and on the required size of the vegetation buffer between the property and the high school.
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Gig Harbor won’t install license plate-reading cameras
Mar 26, 2025 | By: Charlee Glock-JacksonPublic comment was overwhelmingly against license-plate reading cameras, and the council voted 5-2 against installing them.
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Club sponsored by local Kiwanis allows everyone to get in on the AKtion
Mar 26, 2025 | By: Marsha HartThe year-old AKtion Club gives developmentally disabled adults a social outlet and a chance to give back to the community.
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Day Tripper | A Gig Harbor walkabout
Mar 25, 2025 | By: Mary WilliamsDay Tripper columnist Mary Williams opted to see her hometown through a tourists’ eyes this month.
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Can you spot a bottle job at 20 paces?
Mar 25, 2025 | By: Carolyn BickA Q&A with Ghostlight’s founder on upcoming production of “Steel Magnolias”
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Harbor Happenings | Circus of Second Chances visits Gig Harbor
Mar 25, 2025 | By: Charlee Glock-JacksonAlso coming up this week: the Greater Gig Harbor Foundation’s Crab Fest, Harbor WildWatch beach walks and more.
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Behind the Finds | Every picture has a story
Mar 24, 2025 | By: Tonya StricklandIn their latest storytelling collaboration, Gig Harbor Now writers Tonya Strickland and Greg Spadoni launch a new series where they tell the stories behind old photographs sold at second hand stores.
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