Article posted Thursday, March 18, 2010 2:40pm

• The Village of Egg Harbor received a $25,000 Wisconsin Coastal Management Program grant to assist in the building of a stormwater filtration basin in the new Egg Harbor Marina parking lot. Village Administrator Josh Van Lieshout worked with Rep. Garey Bies and Sen. Alan Lasee to earn the grant.

• Former Sturgeon Bay High School football star Casey Rabach re-signed an NFL contract with Washington for a reported $12.3 million over three years. The 10-year veteran is a 1997 graduate of Sturgeon Bay, where he was named Packerland Conference Player of the Year as a two-way lineman.

Rabach will anchor the line for the rebuilding team under new head coach Mike Shanahan.

• HGTV filmed two separate Door County properties last summer and the segment aired Saturday, March 5 and 6 on The Outdoor Room program with Jamie Durie.

This new HGTV show hit the air in January, and the host pulls inspiration from around the world to infuse in a couple’s garden or backyard, making a segment out of it. In this show, Jamie came to Door County with a film crew and visited the home of Karin Overbeck at the Evergreen Schoolhouse and the Woodwalk Gallery for artistic and garden inspiration. The segment airs again March 27 at noon.

• Governor Jim Doyle today signed into law Assembly Bill 614, the Health Care Transparency Bill. The Governor signed the bill at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin and was joined by supporters of the bill, as well as the bill’s Senate author, Senator Jim Sullivan.

“Nowhere else are people asked to buy a product before they know what the price is,” Governor Doyle said. “This bill is a practical step forward that will help people better understand what their health care costs are before making important health care decisions.”

The new law requires health care providers to disclose the cost of the most common procedures they perform. It will help consumers get price estimates prior to a procedure, make apples-to-apples comparisons on prices, and determine out-of-pocket costs prior to services occurring.

• The Door County Silent Sports Alliance honored two dedicated volunteers as its Volunteers of the Year. Chesla Anschutz and Rich Dirks “epitomize the volunteer spirit” wrote Margaret Carroll.

DCSSA volunteers help groom ski trails, clear biking and hiking trails, work water stations and much more. All of this work helps make Door County a great place for outdoor sports.