🌱 How a rough Purdy wagon road became today’s Key Peninsula highway

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• How a rough Purdy wagon road became today's Key Peninsula highway

Today's riddle: What do you call a belt that is made of watches? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Thursday: Partly sunny, with a high of 67 and low of 54 degrees.
• Friday: Low clouds may break, temps: high: 69, low: 55.
• Saturday: Mostly sunny and pleasant, with a high of 68 and low of 51 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• The Story of the KP Highway, Part II (keypennews.org) — A new historical feature traces how the early 1900s Gig Harbor–Longbranch highway transformed travel through Purdy, replacing a troublesome drawbridge and rough horse-era roads with a more reliable route. You'll learn how state "Permanent Highways," the Wauna Curves, and later paving projects gradually connected Henderson Bay's coves and set the stage for today's easier drives across the Key Peninsula.
   

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🗓 Events Nearby

Thursday October 1
• Marine Life Center: Open →
  Harbor Wildwatch, 3207 Harborview Drive, Gig Harbor
  11:00 am
• Feeding Frenzy! →
  Harbor Wildwatch, 3207 Harborview Drive, Gig Harbor
  4:00 pm
• COM - MES / Field - HSC
  MES - Field
  5:00 pm
• PHS- Volleyball vs North Thurston
  PHS - Main Gym, PHS - Aux Gym
  5:45 pm
• GHHS - RAF - SOCCER (V) GAME VS SILAS
  PHS Roy Anderson Field
  6:45 pm
Friday October 2
• Rotary Club of Gig Harbor (Morning Rotary) Breakfast & Program →
  Gig Harbor WA
• Pretty Psychic Tour with "Psychic" Comedian Peter Antoniou at Ocean5 →
  Ocean5, 5268 Point Fosdick Drive Northwest, Gig Harbor
• Drag Bingo →
  Locust Cider Gig Harbor, 3207 57th Street Court, Gig Harbor
  6:00 pm
• PHS- @ R.A. Football- V vs Capital
  PHS Roy Anderson Field
  7:00 pm
Saturday October 3
• Community Boat Restoration Program →
  Gig Harbor BoatShop, 3805 Harborview Dr, Gig Harbor
  9:00 am
• Shred Event-Gig Harbor →
  Kitsan Bank - Gig Harbor, 4714 Point Fosdick Dr, Gig Harbor
  9:00 am
• Gig Harbor Eagles Octoberfest →
  Fraternal Order of Eagles, 4425 Burnham Drive, Gig Harbor
  12:00 pm

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🗞 Nearby News

Gig Harbor

• Birches in Gig Harbor Home Depot parking lot turn dead and ghostly, in time for Halloween (gigharbornow.org)
• Two Gig Harbor pizzerias tried this Tacoma address. Another will close this week (thenewstribune.com)
• A tombstone tourist visits greater Gig Harbor cemeteries (gigharbornow.org)

Bremerton

• 570-unit housing development in Silverdale now complete (kitsapdailynews.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: A waist of time. (Thank you Martin L. for sending it in!)
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