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Project engineer Justin Janke, on the lagoon side of the bridge, describes how the streambed was built to keep the creek on the surface. The area fills up with seawater during high tides.

Highway 302 Spur bridge opening Saturday

Nov 29, 2023 | By: Gig Harbor Now Staff

The road has been closed and a short detour in place since April for a fish passage project.

Grinch moves from Rosedale to Skansie Park

Nov 29, 2023 | By: Chapin Day

On Monday, Mary Godwin-Austen suddenly interrupted her brisk morning walk along Harborview. She’d seen an old friend. On a roof top. The Grinch. A Who-ville House relic High overhead, three Gig Harbor Public Works employees, two on hydraulic bucket trucks, one clinging to the shingles, toiled to install a new addition to the Skansie Park

Harbor Happenings: City flips the holiday lights on this week

Nov 28, 2023 | By: Charlee Glock-Jackson

The holiday season hits high gear this week with the lighting of the city’s holiday tree in Skansie Brothers Park at 5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 2. Santa arrives on a fire truck at 5:30 p.m. The event includes live music, craft vendors, cookies and cocoa. Festivities continue until about 7 p.m. Harbor WildWatch will host

Turnout in 2023 election slightly higher in Gig Harbor than elsewhere in county

Nov 28, 2023 | By: Vince Dice

The 2023 election is officially over after the Pierce County certified the results of the Nov. 7 balloting on Tuesday, Nov. 28. Results posted on election night held up in the handful of Gig Harbor-area races, with late-arriving ballots not significantly impacting the margins of victory. Local results In the Peninsula Metropolitan Park District, voters

Developments would bring more than 150 residences to Swede Hill

Nov 28, 2023 | By: Ted Kenney

Add northern Swede Hill to the list of Gig Harbor locales slated for accelerating suburban growth. West of Highway 16, on land sloping down to Burnham Drive NW and McCormick Creek, two local developers are shepherding separate proposals through the city’s permitting process that would add more than 150 residences on land now occupied by

Business spotlight: Telling your story with R Storie

Nov 27, 2023 | By: Julie Warrick Ammann

You are your story. R Storie believes who you are can be expressed through fashion and style. Rachel Peirce, owner of R Storie, a women’s boutique clothing store in Gig Harbor North, has been a fashion storyteller since her early days stocking shelves at Tacoma’s Nordstrom at age 14. Her boutique connects women with the

Photo gallery: 2023 Turkey Trot

Nov 27, 2023 | By: Julie Warrick Ammann

Photos by Julie Warrick Ammann from the 2023 Turkey Trot 5K race in Gig Harbor. Click on any image below to view the gallery.

Annual Turkey Trot fights hunger

Nov 25, 2023 | By: Julie Warrick Ammann

Dinosaurs, turkeys and tutus were among the colorfully styled ensembles runners sported as they gobbled up the road competing in the Gig Harbor Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving morning. Now an annual tradition, the Turkey Trot began in 2002 with just 15 friends, family and patients of Dr. Tim Holmes, an area chiropractor. Today, more than