Clean out your closets for a good cause
Jul 14, 2025 | By: Marsha HartFood Backpacks 4 Kids is now taking donations for its sixth annual Clothing Drive, which distributes items to families ahead of back-to-school season.
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Food Backpacks 4 Kids is now taking donations for its sixth annual Clothing Drive, which distributes items to families ahead of back-to-school season.
Read MoreThe state departments of Ecology and Health are leading an effort to determine whether turf can be manufactured without hazardous chemicals.
Read MoreThe new funding will expand access to field experience, industry site visits and additional program opportunities that connect classroom learning to real world careers.
Read MoreThe free Summer Lunch Program returns on Tuesdays and Thursdays starting July 8 at these Gig Harbor and Key Peninsula locations.
Read MorePeninsula High hasn’t been upgraded since 2004, and parts of it were built in 1946. GHHS was built in 1978 and last renovated in 1991.
Read MoreAramark takes over the contract from Sodexo starting next fall. Here’s what will be on the menu.
Read MoreSixteen local graduating seniors received scholarships ranging from $1,250 to $2,500 from residents at the senior housing community.
Read MoreAs Kimberly Shaw recalls her arduous four-year journey to open the first licensed child-care center on the Key Peninsula, she holds an infant boy in her lap. Getting a permit for a child-care center has been more difficult than Shaw, director of the nonprofit Key Peninsula Cooperative Preschool, initially envisioned. The process has been filled
Read MoreSome people call Pat Furman, owner of The Floatation Device in Purdy, the town’s unofficial mayor.
Read MoreThe policy said that the district could fire teachers whose online speech “has an adverse impact on district operations.”
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