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Developer, Department of Ecology agree to lower fine for water quality violations at Gig Harbor site

May 03, 2024 | By: Gig Harbor Now Staff

The Washington Department of Ecology announced that Puyallup-based RMHomes agreed to pay a reduced $40,000 penalty for water quality violations at a construction site in Gig Harbor. The settlement agreement reduces the original penalty of $56,000. According to Ecology, state and local inspectors noted 15 water quality violations at the Edwards Drive construction site in

Russell Foundation grants go to Harbor WildWatch, Great Peninsula Conservancy, others

Apr 26, 2024 | By: Gig Harbor Now Staff

The Gig Harbor-based Russell Family Foundation this week awarded 27 grants worth $819,000 to several organizations serving youth and young adults in Pierce, Kitsap, Thurston, Jefferson, Mason and South King Counties. The grants are part of the foundation’s Environmental Education portfolio and provide focus on organizations that provide outdoor environmental learning experiences. “We recognize the

Purdy paving to begin Sunday night

Apr 11, 2024 | By: Gig Harbor Now Staff

Drivers leaving and entering Purdy will be detoured via the Highway 16-Burnham Drive interchange for a couple weeks. The work will occur at night.

Harbor Farms shutters Rosedale Street venue, buys larger North Rosedale site

Apr 03, 2024 | By: Ted Kenney

A farm-oriented amusement venue that made a splash when it operated for a few weekends last fall has closed its doors (or rather, farmyard gates) for good at its Rosedale Street location. For sale signs popped up along its split-rail fence earlier this month, surprising passersby. Harbor Farms, the creation of Gig Harbor pizzeria and

City council asks planning commission to review proposed zoning change

Mar 28, 2024 | By: Charlee Glock-Jackson

The Gig Harbor City Council voted Monday to ask the city Planning Commission to review a proposal to change the land use designation for a 23-acre parcel west of Highway 16. A group called Henderson Burnham LLC requested the zoning change so the company can build an unspecified number of single-family homes on the site.

Commercial fishing fleet still waiting for its homeport

Mar 25, 2024 | By: Vince Dice

Members of Gig Harbor’s fishing fleet have waited more than a decade for the city to build a Commercial Fishing Homeport, which has been part of the plan for Ancich Park since 2013. It looks like they will have to wait at least another year. Negotiations between the city and the National Marine Fisheries Service

Two In Tow & On The Go | A South Creek Mystery

Mar 22, 2024 | By: Tonya Strickland

Remember that time I wigged out after learning Gig Harbor’s famous Donkey Creek isn’t its real name, and that it’s not even a creek? And then I vowed to find out the origins of that naming catastrophe? Well, two months after I wrote about the so-called “North Creek” stream, we did a thing. But first,

Lift at Gig Harbor Marina and Boatyard put to the test

Mar 21, 2024 | By: Chapin Day

On the Gig Harbor waterfront Thursday morning, what looked like an unseasonal champion pumpkin weigh-in proved to be just a recently mandated test of boat yard travel lifts. While a gaggle of yard workers, state officials and marine industry representatives looked on, a crane inspection company sucked a total of 133,332 pounds of harbor water

Feasibility studies recommend contiguous recreation, senior, aquatics centers

Mar 21, 2024 | By: Ed Friedrich

PenMet also advanced a master plan for Tacoma DeMolay Sandspit Nature Preserve to the final design phase.

Guest column | North Creek: Quality over quantity

Mar 20, 2024 | By: Jamie Glasgow

An article titled “Idle incubator largely responsible for absent chum run” was posted online by Gig Harbor Now on Jan. 16. The article quotes a source who describes North Creek as a “glorified drainage ditch” and implies the watershed is incapable of supporting fish populations without the help of the remote site hatchery “incubator” at

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