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County reaches, then scraps impact fee deal with PenMet Parks

Jan 22, 2024 | By: Ed Friedrich

The interlocal agreement would have shared $472,000 with the local parks district for 2023, plus more going forward.

Sports Beat: Four Gig Harbor wrestlers stand out in loss to North Thurston

Jan 19, 2024 | By: Dennis Browne

The Gig Harbor Tides wrestling team dropped a 54-22 decision to North Thurston on Thursday, Jan. 18. The score wasn’t really indicative of a contest that saw the Tides dominate four matches and lose four matches, but forfeit the rest of the contests because they don’t have enough wrestlers in the middle and heavier weight

Gig Harbor Police Blotter | One arrested following rollover collision

Jan 18, 2024 | By: Vince Dice

Editor’s note: The Blotter is written based on information provided by Gig Harbor Police , Gig Harbor Fire & Medic One and the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office. Gig Harbor Police and Gig Harbor Fire and Medic One responded to a rollover collision at 8 p.m. Jan. 12 on the Kimball Drive/Pioneer Way overpass of Highway 16. A 67-year-old Silverdale man told

Timeline for grocery merger pushed back as Washington attorney general sues

Jan 18, 2024 | By: Vince Dice

Kroger, owner of Fred Meyer and other grocery chains, announced this week that its proposed merger with Albertsons will take longer than it previously thought. Meanwhile, Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced that his office is suing to stop the merger. The Democratic attorney general, who is running for governor this fall, argued that the

Peninsula School District receives anonymous gift to erase lunch debt in Key Peninsula schools

Jan 18, 2024 | By: Christina T Henry

An anonymous donation of $34,425 will hack into Peninsula School District’s ballooning student lunch debt, which now stands at just more than $100,000. The school board gratefully and formally accepted the donation Tuesday, Jan. 16. The donor earmarked the money specifically for schools on the Key Peninsula. Those include Vaughn, Evergreen and Minter Creek elementary

Burley Lagoon at base of shopping center wall in Purdy.

King tides cause little flooding in area

Jan 17, 2024 | By: Gig Harbor Now Staff

The 13.57-foot tide Wednesday spilled slightly into a Purdy shopping center parking lot, but didn’t rise quite high enough to do any damage.

Jennifer Preston | A place to play

Jan 17, 2024 | By: Jennifer Preston

The purpose of play “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” – George Bernard Shaw Forward-thinking municipalities know good things happen when citizens have a place to gather and grow. A thriving, local community provides both space and events for people of all ages and abilities to

Harbor Happenings | ‘Desert Drought’ on display at TCC-Gig Harbor

Jan 16, 2024 | By: Charlee Glock-Jackson

The Gig Harbor campus of Tacoma Community College hosts a show of “Desert Drought” paintings by Lauren Napier through March 15. Napier, whose creative outlet is usually music or prose, turned to painting during the COVID-19 pandemic. This series was inspired by her time spent on the Navajo Reservation and the Arizona desert. Live music

The remote site incubator at Donkey Creek

Idle incubator largely responsible for absent chum run

Jan 16, 2024 | By: Ed Friedrich

Because of a salmon virus, locals who operate a remote site incubator on North Creek couldn’t get eggs to supplement the few fish the stream produces naturally.

Light snow, freezing rain possible Jan. 16 and 17

Jan 16, 2024 | By: Gig Harbor Now Staff

The National Weather Service issued a winter weather message for Western Washington from 4 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 16, through 1 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 17. Weather Service forecasters expect light snow and possible freezing rain in the area Tuesday evening. The message warns of accumulations of less than a half inch of snow and ice accumulation

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