Search Results for: TONYA STRICKLAND

Behind the Finds | Every picture has a story

Mar 24, 2025

In their latest storytelling collaboration, Gig Harbor Now writers Tonya Strickland and Greg Spadoni launch a new series where they tell the stories behind old photographs sold at second hand stores.

14 Names to Remember | Willard Chessman

May 23, 2024

14 Names to Remember Project. Layout by Tonya Strickland. Historic graphics attributed.

Two in Tow & On The Go | Shopping for a wish

Dec 05, 2025

Do 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, 2025

If 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, 2025

A 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

Gig Harbor Now and Then | Meet the Swede who pioneered flight on the peninsula

Nov 03, 2025

Gustav Stromer likely built the first “aeroplane” in the Gig Harbor area, though he shipped it to Tacoma before it took off.

Two In Tow & On The Go | Cool trick-or-treating neighborhoods

Oct 31, 2025

Here are our favorite Trick-or-Treating neighborhoods in Gig Harbor.

City Arts Commission to put out new call for Harbor Arbor Art

Oct 29, 2025

The new call will require Harbor Arbor art to be sculpted on-site at Grandview Forest, rather than in a studio.

Community Currents mural brings some big fish to Harborview Drive

Oct 22, 2025

The Community Currents mural consists of wooden fish decorated by community members and local institutions after Chalk the Harbor.

Two in Tow & On The Go: A Day at Java & Clay Cafe

Oct 17, 2025

Java & Clay Cafe is the kind of cozy creative space that invites folks to grab a coffee, sit down and make something beautiful.