Summer Sounds at Skansie lineup set for 2025
Feb 24, 2025 | By: Gig Harbor Now StaffWho’s playing at Summer Sounds at Skansie in 2025? Here’s the lineup.
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Gig Harbor Now and Then | Gig Harbor Garage was the area’s first car dealership
Feb 24, 2025 | By: Greg SpadoniThe 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
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Three Peninsula wrestlers win individual titles, while Seahawks fall just short of team championship
Feb 23, 2025 | By: Dennis BrowneAlso this weekend: Gig Harbor’s Aiden Hammer won two titles and set two records at the Class 3A state swimming championships.
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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.
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Health providers warily watching new administration’s executive orders
Feb 20, 2025 | By: Conor WilsonThe Pierce County Health District and reports no impacts, so far, from the flurry of executive orders coming out of Washington, D.C.
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Mat Classic starts today; these local wrestlers will compete
Feb 20, 2025 | By: Dennis BrowneThe Peninsula girls wrestling team is a top contender to win a second consecutive state championship at Mat Classic.
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Gig Harbor Real Estate | Demand remains strong as home prices, new listings rise
Feb 19, 2025 | By: Alison PaoliThe median price for a single-family home in the greater Gig Harbor area rose by 1.8% from December to January, reaching a median sale price record of $915,000.
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PenMet expanding Fox Island sandspit park
Feb 19, 2025 | By: Ed FriedrichTwo purchased parcels will add 3.6 acres and 265 feet of shoreline. The board also approved final design for a shoreline restoration.
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Gig Harbor boys fall a point short of upsetting top-seeded Auburn Mountainview
Feb 19, 2025 | By: Dennis BrowneThe Tides will learn their opening state tournament opponent on Sunday, Feb. 23.
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Legislation proposes a redesign of Washington’s state flag
Feb 19, 2025 | By: Jacquelyn Jimenez Romero, Washington State StandardThe bill’s Democratic sponsor says the current state flag is just … boring. Republican opponents say the proposal is ‘un-American.’
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