Article posted Thursday, March 4, 2010 1:15pm

Notes from the Grove

Welcome to the Notes from the Grove, providing Liberty Grove residents and visitors tid bits of information about goings on in town government.

• Supervisors Bob Tidball and Frank Forkert have been certified by the Wisconsin Towns Association for the Board of Review. Anne Miller, Janet and Bud are also certified. You need to have at least one person on the board certified. Certification occurs once every two years.

• Julie Felhoffer will be at the town office on March 24th from 10 – 2 pm for anyone wanting to talk about financial help for projects that improve the safety and welfare of their home. Upcoming sanitary replacements, new roofs, repairs of porches, new windows, etc. all count. Please contact the town office for appointments.

• The “Listening Session” was again well received with many comments and suggestions. Minutes of the session will be posted on the town Web Site. Another session is being planned for this coming summer.

• The town has in place a notification system that will alert residents to emergencies and important town matters. You receive an alert to your cell phone as well as your email. Please visit the town Web site for information on registering.

• The town is waiting word from the Postal Service for the date of the pre-construction meeting. Once that takes place we are hopeful the long-awaited remodeling and updating of the Ellison Bay Post Office will begin.

• The open house on Saturday the 27th had approximately 60 people in attendance. Supervisors Bud, Janet and Brian Smith were on hand to give tours and answer questions. Representatives from Dimension IV, Zeise Construction and Mike Till also attended. A special thank you to Janet Johnson and Pat Kalms for preparing and serving the refreshments.

• The town has received a request to support in nominating certain wetlands in the town as wetlands of international importance. Last spring the Wisconsin Wetlands Association recognized five Door County wetland complexes as statewide wetland gems; two of these wetland complexes are located in the Town of Liberty Grove. The Nature Conservancy, The Ridges Sanctuary, Door County Land Trust, and Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources have partnered to nominate the important wetlands in northern Door County as a Ramsar site. In the Town of Liberty Grove this includes the Mink River Estuary and North Bay-Mud Lake coastal wetlands.

To contact John Lowry regarding the Town of Liberty Grove or information found within this column, email [email protected] or call the Town of Liberty Grove at 920.854.2934.