Phil Wiltse of Gig Harbor is not at home right now. He’s trudging through the snow in the mountains near Nepal to raise money to fight poverty.

For months, the City of Gig Harbor has been steadily taking steps forward on the Burnham-Borgen-state Route 16 interchange project, a major traffic revision to coincide with the opening of St. Anthony Hospital in Gig Harbor North.

Members of the Gig Harbor City Council and the Peninsula Light Co. Board of Directors will meet later this month to discuss making a major change to the city’s downtown corridor: Undergrounding the power lines that run along Harborview Drive.

The Peninsula Metropolitan Parks District is trying to secure 18.79 acres of wooded property just north of Harbor Family Park.

A fire late Friday night caused a Gig Harbor family to be moved out of their home and find help from the Red Cross.

Cushman Trail will get more attention this year when Phase II of the extension project gets underway.

At a booth just inside the a Safeway store on Saturday, J.D. Fullerton contributed to a fundraising effort on the part of the Gig Harbor Destination Imagination teams from Kopachuck Middle and Voyager Elementary schools, which will be representing the Gig Harbor community and the state at the Global Finals Competition in Knoxville, Tenn.

Three major annual events — the Livable Community Fair, Lakebay Fuschsia Society Plant Sale and Heritage Month at the Key Peninsula Historical Society Museum — are coming May 10 at the Key Peninsula Civic Center in Vaughn.

Success didn’t come easy for the staff of The Outlook, Peninsula High School’s student newspaper.

The “Welcome” handout offered to each parent entering Dr. Seuss’ Readers’ Cafe at the Gig Harbor Academy was in the form of a menu.

Last October, I wrote a similar column that asked questions about what was happening in downtown Gig Harbor.

The Prison Pet Partnership Program at the Washington Corrections Center for Women went through final training sessions last week at St. Anthony Medical Center for clients who will soon be given custody of trained service dogs.

Last week marked two important dates for Lane Judson. Thursday, April 24, was his daughter Crystal’s birthday. But rather than celebrating the day, Lane and his wife, Patty, were reminded of another event — the five-year anniversary of one the biggest crimes in Gig Harbor history.

Residents of the Dunbar Cove neighborhood are going to battle against a nearby homeowner who is using their property for a business the neighbors feel would infringe on their quality of life.

Two citizen-driven amendments to the city’s comprehensive plan could mean new commercial and residential growth in Gig Harbor.

Gig Harbor suffered an unexpected loss of a well-known and well-loved business owner last Thursday.

It has only been a couple months since the Key Peninsula Fire Department implemented its new five-member board of commissioners, but the switch from a three-member board is moving in a positive direction, union president Robert Bosch said.

Terri Radcliffe Hunziker has been battling non-smoker’s lung cancer for nearly five years, and the fight has involved devastating medical treatment expenses.

The Key Singers’ annual spring concert, “A Decade of Song,” will take place at 3 p.m. May 18 at the Key Peninsula Lutheran Church on the Key Peninsula.

Steve Olson has always been a deep thinker. He ponders things now, as he did in high school, when it sometimes got in the way of his athletic abilities.

Lute Jerstad was a man on the move. He didn’t do well sitting still. It’s hard to say whether he was blessed or cursed with a powerful internal momentum that pushed him into a remarkably adventurous trek through life. That journey took him from a shoebox warmed by a heat lamp on a Minnesota farm, where he spent his first weeks in this world, to the top of Mount Everest, where he made mountaineering history by surviving a freezing night in the open at 28,000 feet.

Officials from the Department of Natural Resources met with concerned citizens of the Puget Sound last Friday night on Harstine Island to discuss possible locations for future geoduck farming on public beaches.

Last Friday marked a milestone for the Gig Harbor Eagles Club: The charitable, volunteer-based organization has been active in the community for 60 years.

When third-grader Hailey Bergren puts her mind to something, there’s no limit to her success.

Unfortunately, I couldn’t attend — as I did last year — the annual Botball competitions at Santa Clara University near San Jose, Calif.

Over the past few months, there has been a lot of buzz about the Uptown Gig Harbor shopping center, but long before it was conceived, the Peninsula Pierce County Library has been the place to go on Point Fosdick Drive.

A 10-year-old Vaughn Elementary School student is recovering at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle following an accident that occurred late in the afternoon on April 15.

While the Gig Harbor-area real estate market seems slow compared to the boom of previous years, agents and brokers insist the sky is not falling.

Gig Harbor resident George Lee always thought that having a sand volleyball court in a local park seemed like a practical idea.