Community

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

Inside Gig Harbor Real Estate: The importance of choosing the right mortgage lender

Mar 14, 2023 | By:

Paige Schulte is founder of the Neighborhood Experts Real Estate office in Gig Harbor. In 2020, she was recognized by the Wall Street Journal for her use of virtual tours and digital media for buyers during the height of the Coronavirus pandemic. She was named 2022 Finest Realtor in Gig Harbor by Gig Harbor Living

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Search continues for plane, pilot missing from Tacoma Narrows Airport

Mar 14, 2023 | By:

Searchers have been looking for a Cessna since the night it departed Tacoma Narrows Airport on March 6, but snow and rugged terrain near Queets have made it difficult.

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Guest Column: How zoning could limit our Incredible Expanding and Shrinking House

Mar 13, 2023 | By: Marlene Druker

Marlene Druker, AIA is a registered architect based in Gig Harbor. As part of her work, she has read the definitions in, and “kicked the tires” of many (maybe too many) zoning codes. Read Part 1 of her two-part column here.     In part one, I sold you on The Incredible Expanding and Shrinking

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Business Spotlight: Harbor General Store unexpectedly closes

Mar 13, 2023 | By:

Harbor General Store, a downtown Gig Harbor establishment valued by customers both for the goods it sold and the gathering place it provided, unexpectedly closed permanently last week.  Its last day of business was Sunday, March 5. Harbor General was approaching its eighth anniversary in business, according to a Facebook post announcing the closure.  The

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Pilot, plane disappear after departing Gig Harbor airport

Mar 10, 2023 | By:

The Tacoma man departed Monday evening and headed out over the Key Peninsula before contact was lost.

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Sports Beat: 12 earn basketball all-conference honors

Mar 10, 2023 | By:

Twelve local players earned All-South Sound Conference recognition for the 2022-23 season. Honored were: Boys Basketball First Team All-South Sound Conference Luke Browne, Gig Harbor, senior (fourth all-conference selection, including three at Gig Harbor and one at Peninsula). Will Landram, Gig Harbor, senior (second all-conference selection) Second Team All-South Sound Conference Isaiah Brown, Peninsula, junior

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Gig Harbor Police Blotter: HIPAA cited in refusal to say where drugs came from

Mar 10, 2023 | By:

Editor’s note: The Blotter is written based on information provided by Gig Harbor Police and Gig Harbor Fire & Medic One. St. Anthony Hospital asked police to collect drugs found on a patient on March 8, but refused to tell officers from whom they took the contraband. Hospital employees told officers that the facility’s policy on the Health Insurance Portability

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Two in Tow & On the Go: Getting out of the house

Mar 09, 2023 | By:

Now that we’re on my fifth column here at everyone’s favorite news site, you know a little more about the kids and me. Like how I’m a sucker for a historical throwback, Clara and Wyatt are officially willing to forgo swings for forests, and that we’re never too old for a fenced-in playground. But how about I take it one step further?

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New data, new progress on Donkey Creek contamination

Mar 09, 2023 | By:

The slow-rolling saga of Gig Harbor’s attempts to find, measure and cleanse toxic chemicals from its streams and harbor waters is picking up velocity, albeit at a stately pace. The Washington state Department of Ecology and the Gig Harbor Sportsman’s Club have resumed work on a lead pollution clean-up plan after Ecology named environmental engineer

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Former Gig Harbor star Jarzynka dies on Olympic Peninsula fishing trip

Mar 08, 2023 | By:

Joe Jarzynka, who starred on the football field for Gig Harbor High School and the University of Washington, died while fishing on the Sol Duc River near Forks on Sunday, March 5. According to multiple reports, Jarzynka was found unresponsive on the banks of the Sol Duc. Searchers found his one-man pontoon boat wedged in a

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