2024-2025 Super Seniors | Gig Harbor High School
Jul 31, 2025 | By: Dennis BrowneMeet some of Gig Harbor’s top senior athletes from the 2024-25 sports season.
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Crime Con founder hoping for a killer weekend
Jul 30, 2025 | By: Charlee Glock-JacksonThe inaugural West Sound Crime Con takes place at several locations in Gig Harbor and around the region during the weekend of Aug. 1 through 3.
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City council sends Cultural Access sales tax to voters
Jul 29, 2025 | By: Carolyn BickVoters in the city of Gig Harbor will decide whether to increase the sales tax by 0.1% to support arts and culture programs.
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Harbor Happenings | Cruise the Narrows, Crime Con, Kopachuck re-opening are this week
Jul 29, 2025 | By: Charlee Glock-JacksonThe Cruise the Narrows car show is Saturday at Uptown Gig Harbor, and that’s just one of several major events this weekend.
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Gig Harbor’s DeRespini qualifies for national home run derby
Jul 28, 2025 | By: Nathan EshelmanThe Pacific Northwest has a great history with home run derbies. Just recently, the Seattle Mariners’ Cal Raleigh won the 2025 Major League Baseball Home Run Derby. Now, Gig Harbor’s very own Olivia DeRespini looks to make history by competing in the Little League National Home Run Derby in August. DeRespini, 12, plays for travel
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Local students grill 26th Legislative District candidates, write op-eds
Jul 28, 2025 | By: Christina T HenryFive students from Gig Harbor and Tacoma spent a sizable chunk of their summer break researching and interviewing candidates for the 26th District state Senate seat.
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Gig Harbor Now and Then | Smoke gets in everybody’s eyes
Jul 28, 2025 | By: Greg SpadoniThe haze of history clouds this fact: Heavy smoke was an even bigger problem in Gig Harbor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Gig Harbor Police Blotter | Suspect fights security over $28 worth of deli food
Jul 24, 2025 | By: Vince DiceAlso in this edition of the blotter: a suspect walks away from the ER, a man points a gun out the window of his vehicle and more.
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Developer of Swede Hill gas station project applies for a city-wide zoning code change to get a coffee drive-through
Jul 24, 2025 | By: Ted KenneyThe developers hope to build a drive-through coffee shop on Sehmel Drive, but they need a zoning amendment for that part of the project.
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Inspired by wife’s example, he helped save a Husky legend’s life
Jul 24, 2025 | By: Conor WilsonShane Cleveland of Bremerton donated a kidney to former UW basketball and football star Nate Robinson in February. His wife Kara did the same, also for a stranger, 14 years ago.
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