Kids dig new playground as city opens Doris Heritage Park
Jun 17, 2025 | By: Ed FriedrichThe pickleball courts also filled up quickly after a ribbon-cutting ceremony honoring Peninsula High alum and running great Doris Heritage.
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Legislature cut key public health fund by $24 million over next two years
Jun 11, 2025 | By: Conor WilsonWashington public health departments will see a slight reduction in state funding for basic services over the next two years, but the severity and local impacts of that loss on the Kitsap Peninsula remains unclear. State legislators reduced spending on Foundational Public Health Services by $24 million over the 2025-2027 budget. Those funds sustain essential
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Doris Heritage Park to open June 16
Jun 10, 2025 | By: Gig Harbor Now StaffThe park next door to the Tom Taylor YMCA includes a new playground, pickleball courts and more.
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Legislation makes opening a child care a little easier
Jun 10, 2025 | By: Conor WilsonAs 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
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Rep. Randall settling in to her new role in a very unsettled Washington, D.C.
Jun 05, 2025 | By: Conor WilsonEmily Randall, the Bremerton Democrat elected last fall to represent the Sixth Congressional District, says she’s “trying to learn this new job while I navigate all this chaos.”
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Bridge talk attracts crowd to Fox Island county council meeting
Jun 04, 2025 | By: Ed FriedrichOther topics were discussed, but it was discussion of a new bridge that drew 200 people to Fox Island’s Heart Church.
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Police department earns accreditation from state group
May 30, 2025 | By: Charlee Glock-JacksonIt is the first time Gig Harbor Police Department sought accreditation, a process that took some two years.
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Summer bus service arrives in time for Maritime Gig Festival
May 29, 2025 | By: Ed FriedrichThe buses, not dressed as trolleys this year, will run Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays between Uptown and the base of Peacock Hill.
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Kopachuck State Park reopening in early August
May 21, 2025 | By: Gig Harbor Now StaffThe reopening date was pushed back a few weeks because the contractor added four work items.
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Pierce County libraries could lose access to some services due to federal funding cuts
May 15, 2025 | By: Marsha HartHarbor History Museum and other local institutions also face the potential loss of grant funds and other revenue sources.
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