Man ill March 6 — An 82-year-old man fell in his bathroom at about 9 p.m. but wasn’t found until the next day, when a friend went to check on him. Paramedics examined the man and found no trauma from the fall, but they transported him to an area hospital for further evaluation.

Have a sip of green beer next week and tip your hat to the saints. St. Anthony Hospital will celebrate its one-year anniversary on St. Patrick’s Day. It doesn’t seem that long ago when the concrete skeleton rose above the treetops and crawled with construction workers in hard hats. It seems like yesterday that laughing staff members in scrubs sprawled on the emergency room floor in front of TV news cameras in the pre-dawn hours of opening day.

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The early morning public affairs forum at Cottesmore of Life Care in Gig Harbor often focuses on a business director or local politician who presents an update or a platform.

A high bond rating coupled with a new ordinance to sell revenue bonds will save Gig Harbor and its ratepayers hundreds of thousands of dollars, City Finance Director Dave Rodenbach said.

The days of paying a $52 fine for skipping the toll on the New Narrows bridge could soon be a thing of the past.

A representative from the Washington State Parks system was at Kopachuck Middle School last Thursday to discuss alternative approaches for managing the parks in the future.

Peninsula Light Company will raise its utility rates by 5.8 percent on April 1, a move that was approved last fall after a more significant rate increase by Bonneville Power Administration.

A Peninsula School District bus stop on Fox Island will still be used despite an altercation between a homeowner with a shotgun and a parent who was waiting to drop off his son.

Gig Harbor police are looking for a man who committed an armed robbery at Umpqua Bank, formerly Rainier Pacific Bank, on Monday evening on Borgen Boulevard.

A man whose family has more than 125 years of history in the Gig Harbor area has announced his plans to run for the Pierce County Council.

Pete Norman’s grandson, Andrew, is on track to graduate from Tacoma’s Wilson High School in 2014.

The two former Rainier Pacific banks in Gig Harbor soon will be bearing new signs. Umpqua Bank took the reins and hopes to have a positive impact for loyal customers.

Compost: that earthy, lovely byproduct of decay that makes gardeners swoon (but only when it smells good and doesn’t have weed seeds).

Inspired by Gig Harbor Home Depot Assistant Manager Tami Russell, 12 employees volunteered to clean up trash last week along state Route 16 near Purdy.

Our longtime Seattle friends, Karen and Bill, were quick to buy tickets for the Vancouver Olympics last spring, and, due to a computer glitch, they ended up with more tickets than they needed. So, they asked us to join them for two of the days, and we accepted.

Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church recently celebrated its 20th year of sending high school students to Mexico on a mission trip to build houses just outside of Tijuana.

Olivia Vignati has been a student at Henderson Bay High School for the past four years. Until a year ago, she could only describe gym classes in one way.

Gig Harbor High School Drama Director Kristin Zetterstrom alerted me to her kids’ production of “Kiss Me Kate,” Broadway’s and Hollywood’s takeoff on Shakespeare’s “Taming of the Shrew.” The shows will run March 11-13 and March 18-20.

Becka Miller and Andrea Moulton, seniors in the Employment, Training and Transition Program at Peninsula High School, will host a “Pay It Forward” dinner auction at 5:30 p.m. March 26 in the Peninsula High School Commons as part of their senior project.

Vehicle prowl Feb. 27 — A woman reported an apparent break-in of her 2002 Toyota Sequoia while she was at church. The woman’s purse and all of its contents were missing. There were no suspects at the time of the report.

Seizure activity March 1 — A 5-year-old boy went into seizure-like activities, which prompted his mother to call 9-1-1. The toddler was evaluated by paramedics and released for further medical attention by the family’s private doctor.

Pierce Transit has been hit hard by the economic recession, and as a result, it must look at either drastically reducing services or to new sources of revenue.

The sight of permanent lights on the New Narrows bridge has been one of the latest casualties of the state’s $2.8 billion budget shortfall.

One might wonder what a group of artists, a bunch of old chairs and a furniture bank have in common. They are all pivotal players in Tacoma’s first “Chair Affair.”

It’s out with the old, in with the new for a small section of water main that pipes under Harborview Drive in Gig Harbor.

Pierce County government isn’t going to get bigger. It’s starting to become a “lean, mean machine,” County Executive Pat McCarthy said.

A single-car crash killed one woman and injured another Sunday night, the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office reported.

A former nurse and current counselor will hold an ADD/ADHD workshop at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Peninsula/Gig Harbor branch of the Pierce County Library System.

Clam and oyster harvesting at Penrose Point State Park will not be allowed this year.