Gig Harbor Now and Then | Gig Harbor Clay Company, Part 3
Feb 09, 2026The Gasloli and Johnsoni families lived in Mexico after leaving Gig Harbor, briefly crossing paths with Pancho Villa along the way.
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Letter to the Editor | So that’s why they call it Clay Hill
Feb 06, 2026Letter to the editor by Kenneth Malich of Gig Harbor.
Plaque honors former mayor Chuck Hunter for work on Donkey Creek ‘daylighting’
Jan 26, 2026The former construction professional spearheaded efforts to get the new bridge built, removing a fish-passage barrier on Donkey Creek.
Gig Harbor Now and Then | The Gig Harbor Clay Company, Part 2
Jan 25, 2026The Gig Harbor Clay Company never could produce high-quality brick, leading to a business failure and a family schism.
Gig Harbor Now and Then | The Gig Harbor brickyard
Jan 12, 2026Albert Jonsoni and Luigi Gasloli came to America from South Africa (with a few stops along the way) in the early 20th century and later founded a brickyard in Gig Harbor.
Two In Tow & On The Go | Our Knight In No Armor
Jan 09, 2026A New Year’s Day visit to the Olalla Polar Plunge brings cold water, community spirit, a lost bottle, and an unexpected hero.
Gig Harbor Now and Then | The big tree the Meyers did fall
Dec 29, 2025The story of how a group of friends cut down a very big tree in 1982, in annoying rhyming verse.
Two in Tow & On The Go | Shopping for a wish
Dec 05, 2025Do the tags on the Gig Harbor Lions Club Giving Trees represent real wishes? We share our experience.
Gig Harbor Now and Then | Dial M for muddled
Dec 01, 2025If you had an emergency in the pre-911 era, all you had to do was call one of several multi-digit phone numbers depending on what service you needed and what jurisdiction you were in. And the numbers changed routinely.
Gig Harbor Now and Then | Lawrence of Purdy
Nov 17, 2025A sign of history Earlier this year, Gig Harbor Now columnist Tonya Strickland and I started a series of stories titled Behind the Finds. They explore the lives of people in photographs found in random places. This entry in Gig Harbor Now and Then is so similar, it could be called Behind the Signs. There