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The Gig Harbor City Council adopted a three-year strategic plan for 2024 through 2026 on Monday, July 8. The plan calls for: Updating public works standards. Exploring new revenue sources, including a business and occupation tax. Completing Phase 1 of the Sports Complex and finding funding for Phases 2 and 3. Designing and building the
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A short-term residential facility supporting people with intellectual and developmental disabilities from across Washington is expected to open near Gig Harbor in the coming months. The facility will help its clients avoid institutionalization and return to their home communities. The facility, located along Highway 302 west of Wright Bliss Road, will provide crisis care and
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After overwhelmingly rejecting a property tax increase earlier this year, Gig Harbor voters will head to the polls again this summer to vote on a sales tax measure supporting the city’s police department and general fund budget. Revenue from the proposed Public Safety Sales Tax, which will appear on the Aug. 6 primary ballot, would
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The Gig Harbor City Council approved a new six-year Transportation Improvement Program during its meeting on Monday, June 24. The TIP is a list of street projects the city expects to tackle over the next six years. The city updates it every June. State and federal funding programs require local jurisdictions to have a six-year
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If fire officials can’t persuade people not to give up personal fireworks altogether, they’d be obliged if lighting them was contained to the Fourth.
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Home values across the Gig Harbor and Key Peninsulas increased in value by more than 6% this year. That matches the average residential rise across Pierce County after a 3% drop last year, Pierce County Assessor-Treasurer Mike Lonergan said in a press release Wednesday. Average Gig Harbor Peninsula home worth $937,000 The average home within
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Colorado and Minnesota already have implemented retail delivery fees. Washington may do the same to compensate for lagging gas taxes.
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PenMet plans to continue to operate Madrona as a golf course, but there are issues with ownership of the land that makes up part of it.
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Pickleball fans made a big first impression on consultants putting together a master plan for the former nursery.
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The Village at Harbor Hill developers had no “amazing news” at a community meeting, but a Trader Joe’s representative was in the crowd.
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