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Low-pressure January outing ideas for families, pulled from past Two in Tow adventures around Gig Harbor and the South Sound.

A New Year’s Day visit to the Olalla Polar Plunge brings cold water, community spirit, a lost bottle, and an unexpected hero.

Tonya and the kids take you on a cruise to see the best holiday lights displays in the area — complete with an interactive map and a playlist.

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.

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

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

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

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