Community

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

On Raft Island, the Peninsula’s last summer camp carries on, with updates

Oct 26, 2023 | By:

Residents on the east side of Lay Inlet enjoy looking across the bay at All Saints Camp and Retreat Center, a heavily forested stretch of Raft Island shoreline that provides a home to wildlife and brilliant fall colors. The view hasn’t changed in decades. Neighbors might have worried earlier this month, when barges and heavy

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City Council agrees to let Harbor History Museum study future of old Masonic Lodge

Oct 25, 2023 | By:

The Gig Harbor City Council unanimously approved an agreement with the Harbor History Museum regarding the historic Masonic Lodge near Crescent Creek Park. The agreement approved Monday, Oct. 23, calls for the museum to conduct surveys about possible use of the building as an events center. The museum also will provide basic plans, cost estimates

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Incumbent West faces challenger for board seat in Peninsula School District

Oct 25, 2023 | By:

Only one of three school board races in Peninsula School District is contested in this year’s Nov. 7 general election. Chuck West, incumbent candidate for the District 1 director seat, faces challenger Jack Mende of Gig Harbor. Running unopposed to defend their respective positions on the school board are incumbents Lori Glover, running for the

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Day Tripper: A diversion in Port Gamble becomes the main attraction

Oct 25, 2023 | By: Mary Williams

Gas prices are sky high, and a night in a hotel is approaching astronomically expensive.  So, for the foreseeable future, I imagine many of you are going to find yourselves taking day trips rather than the road trip vacations we’ve grown to love.  This beautiful region in which we live is ripe with opportunities to

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Harbor Happenings: Halloween season is here

Oct 24, 2023 | By:

Halloween festivities kick into full gear Thursday, Oct. 26, at the Tom Taylor YMCA’s Jack-O’-Lantern Jubilee, starting at 5 p.m. The event includes Monster Mash dance contests, pumpkin carving contests, bounce houses, a costume parade, touch boxes filled with spooky stuff, trick-or-treat fishing, fortune tellers and even a werewolf walk. And that’s just a sampling

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Rosedale man beamed final movie at downtown theater

Oct 24, 2023 | By:

A teenage Jim Langhelm manned the projectors the final two years before the Roxy Theater on Harborview Drive was closed in 1958.

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Longtime friends organize Books for Barks fundraiser for CHEW Dog Rescue

Oct 23, 2023 | By:

Two teens who met in preschool have been raising money for local nonprofit CHEW Dog Rescue for the past three years through a fundraiser called Books for Barks. They took over the event when the original creator had to step aside, and they’ve been working hard each year to procure books for the sale and

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Local rotarian Denny Wilford featured at Gates Foundation’s World Polio Day

Oct 23, 2023 | By:

Editor’s note: This article was submitted by members of the Gig Harbor Midday Rotary Club. Polio struck Denny Wilford early. He was only nine months old. But from that early blow, Denny grew to walk tall and brave in his lifelong fight to eradicate polio and save countless other children from the same fate. When

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Gig Harbor Now and Then: First 3-D movie was a ‘stupendous, thrilling novelty’

Oct 23, 2023 | By: Greg Spadoni

At the end of our previous Gig Harbor Now and Then column, we invited readers to post their opinions on the Gig Harbor Now Facebook page, addressing the question of whether or not the city of Gig Harbor should take an active interest in correcting its very inaccurate little city park histories and its many

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Fish Bowl investigation complete, school district announces

Oct 23, 2023 | By:

A Peninsula School District investigation into events at the Sept. 15 Fish Bowl football game between Gig Harbor and Peninsula high schools found that “claims of inappropriate behavior beyond what the game officials addressed were unsubstantiated.” The district announced Monday, Oct. 23, that the investigation is complete. In announcing the completion, the district noted that

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