Gig Harbor Now and Then | The dumbest way to kill a shark
Jun 17, 2024 | By: Greg SpadoniE. E. may not have had all his Marbles, given his curious reaction to finding a shark on a beach near Rosedale in 1907.
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Sports Beat | Gig Harbor boys basketball testing themselves during summer league
Jun 14, 2024 | By: Dennis BrowneThe Gig Harbor boys basketball team doubled up Capital, 68-34, on June 12 during summer league action. The Tides are playing in the Curtis summer league, generally one of the top summer circuits in the Puget Sound area. The Tides are coming off another 20-win season (20-7) for head coach Billy Landram. Their 2023-24 season
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Pickleballers swarm Peninsula Gardens visioning workshop
Jun 14, 2024 | By: Ed FriedrichPickleball fans made a big first impression on consultants putting together a master plan for the former nursery.
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Pierce County participating in regional evacuation alert system
Jun 13, 2024 | By: Conor WilsonAhead of what could be a busy wildfire season, Pierce and six other Puget Sound-area counties are promoting a regional evacuation alert system. The Ready, Set, Go program creates a standardized three-step evacuation messaging system for most counties bordering Puget Sound, including Pierce, Kitsap, King, Skagit, Thurston, Snohomish and Whatcom. Emergency Management officials are hoping
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Village at Harbor Hill still waiting on an anchor-tenant grocer
Jun 13, 2024 | By: Ted KenneyThe 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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Tutors with Tails having a paws-itive impact on literacy
Jun 12, 2024 | By: Marsha HartSpecial guests have made weekly visits to Harbor Heights Elementary School in Gig Harbor, along with Evergreen and Minter Creek Elementary on the Key Peninsula. These visitors specialize in lying on the floor, eliciting smiles and accepting a snuggle — all while listening to students read. In 2019, Communities in Schools of Peninsula and the
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Gig Harbor Real Estate | Home prices up again, and so is inventory
Jun 12, 2024 | By: Alison PaoliIn what seems like clockwork, home prices in the greater Gig Harbor notched up again in May, with inventory making more significant gains. According to data from the NWMLS, the median sale price of a single-family home between the Purdy and Narrows bridges, including Fox Island, rose 0.4% from April to May 2024 to $878,398.
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Pioneer Elementary students launch near-space balloon, and the marigolds survived … barely
Jun 11, 2024 | By: Christina T HenryExciting news from the world of space exploration last week. No, not the Boeing Starliner carrying astronauts to the International Space Station, although that was cool. We’re talking about Pioneer Elementary School’s near-space balloon launch Friday. It was quite the adventure. The marigolds survived … barely. Recovering the balloon took an act of heroism —
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Fox Island will be well-represented at the Olympic Trials
Jun 11, 2024 | By: Dennis BrowneTwo Fox Islanders who won state championships for the Gig Harbor Tides will compete in the upcoming Olympic Swim Trials in Indianapolis. Gig Harbor sophomore sensation Aiden Hammer qualified for the United State Olympic Trials in Indianapolis, set for June 15 through 23. Hammer’s goal is to compete in the 2024 Summer Olympics that begin
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Harbor Happenings | Future of Peninsula Gardens to be discussed
Jun 11, 2024 | By: Charlee Glock-JacksonThe community can weigh in on future uses for the old Peninsula Gardens site Wednesday, June 12, at a meeting sponsored by PenMet Parks. For many years, Peninsula Gardens was one of the area’s most popular plant nurseries. When the nursery closed, the site hosted a weekly farmers market. Peninsula Metropolitan Parks District purchased the
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