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  • Frog Listeners Needed for Wisconsin Frog and Toad Survey

    Volunteers power the Wisconsin Frog and Toad Survey, which celebrates its 35th anniversary this spring as North America’s longest-running frog calling survey, and organizers hope even more people will hop at the chance to listen to frogs at a wetland near them to see if frogs are beginning their calls earlier. “People often wonder how […]

  • Framed: Chris Cote

    The Peninsula RePulse’s April 1 cover model, Chris Cote, reveals himself. Submitted.

  • Master Gardeners Highlight Garden Rooms April 12

    The April 12 meeting of the Door County Master Gardeners Association will feature a program by Tom Luebker, a certified landscape designer and greenhouse operator. The first half of his presentation will include the history of garden rooms and structures, styles, walls and floors that are used in these rooms, photos of rooms he and […]

  • Restoring the Ahnapee: Reps Push for River Clean Up

    Republican Assemblyman Scott Krug told Kewaunee County residents to be “loud and active” at an informational session he and Rep. Joel Kitchens held on restoring the Ahnapee River. A near-capacity crowd filled the Algoma council chambers on March 31 to hear the two legislators talk about what can be done to remove the river from […]

  • Conference on Brown County Water Issues April 16

    To mark 2016’s Earth Week, the League of Women Voters of Greater Green Bay will present a mini-conference on Brown County water issues on Saturday, April 16, beginning at 9 am. The event is free and open to the public. The mini-conference will include short programs from Titus Seilheimer, fisheries specialist at UW Sea Grant […]

  • Science Snippet: New Treatment Discovered for Migraines

    A new treatment may be on the horizon for those who suffer migraine headaches. Researchers discovered that overproduction of a chemical called CGRP may end up sensitizing pain pathways and causing blood vessels to constrict. The combined effect is a migraine headache that lasts until the chemical is cleared from the brain and brainstem. Treatments […]

  • Trumpeter Swan Numbers Soar

    The number of trumpeter swans in Wisconsin has zoomed from zero to nearly 4,700 a generation after the Department of Natural Resources and partners launched recovery efforts, national surveys results show. Population estimates from aerial surveys of interior North America peg Wisconsin’s number of adult and “sub-adult” trumpeter swans at 4,695 birds in 2015, more […]

  • Gibraltar Kindergarten Registration April 26

    Kindergarten registration at Gibraltar School will be held on Tuesday, April 26. If you have a child who will be five years old by Sept. 1, 2016, please call Cindy Phillips at 868.3284 ext. 265 for a registration appointment. Please bring your child’s birth certificate and immunization records. Appointments will be approximately 30-45 minutes. Public […]

  • Roy Lukes: Pileated Woodpeckers

    Last week I was about to walk into the front yard to fill the bird feeders when a pileated woodpecker produced the most beautiful, loud, resonant “drumroll” from the bottom of the nearby moraine that I’ve ever heard. I paused to listen to his love call two more times before finishing my task. No sooner […]

  • Municipal News: April 8 – 15

    City of Sturgeon Bay:  A public hearing will be held at noon on April 12 before the Zoning Board of Appeals regarding a petition from Russell Cihlar to use an existing log building as an accessory building at 1623 Clay Banks Road. The Finance/Purchasing & Building Committee meets at 4 pm on April 12. The […]

  • Obituary: Kim Austad

    Kim M. Austad, 47, of Highland Park, IL, formerly of Sturgeon Bay, died suddenly, Saturday night, April 2, 2016 following a recent illness. Edward Ernest Austad and Donna Lynn (Tess) Austad received their Christmas gift the day after Christmas in 1968 when welcomed their daughter, Kim, into the world in Sturgeon Bay. Kim graduated from […]

  • Nicole Helget

    Questions & Authors: Hal Prize Fiction Judge Nicole Helget

    This summer, fiction writers who submit to the Peninsula Pulse’s 2016 Hal Prize will have the chance for their creative works to come before the eyes of multi-genre Minnesota writer Nicole Helget. Helget is the author of The Summer of Ordinary Ways, The Turtle Catcher, Stillwater, Horse Camp (co-authored), Wonder at the Edge of the […]

  • Obituary: Andrew Rodney Billerbeck

    Andrew, age 29, the son of Angela Jo Billerbeck and stepfather Ronald Bochek, was born November 11, 1986, and died April 2, 2016, due to Glioblastoma, a form of brain cancer. He attended Sevastopol Elementary and Middle School, and graduated High School in Gladstone, MI where he enjoyed a successful HS career in Drama, Choir, and Barbershop […]

  • Obituary: Robert Graef

    Robert ‘Bob’ Graef, 90, of Sturgeon Bay, passed away late Thursday night, March 31, 2016 at Golden Living Center-Dorchester in Sturgeon Bay. He was born Robert John Graef on July 19, 1925, in Chicago, IL, the son of Henry Hubert Graef and Magdalen (Elenz) Graef. Robert attended St. Alphonsus School in the Lakeview neighborhood of […]

  • Obituary: James Richard Milbach

    James Richard Milbach, 58, of Sturgeon Bay, Town of Nasewaupee, passed away Thursday evening, March 31, 2016 at his home fighting the good fight as long as he could. He was born September 13, 1957 in Appleton, the son of Elaine Matuszak and Richard Milbach. Jim graduated from Seymour High School in 1976. On December […]

  • Obituary: Elizabeth L. “Betty” Abrahamson

    Elizabeth L. “Betty” Abrahamson, age 85, of Loyal, Wis., formerly of Sturgeon Bay, peacefully passed away at her home on Wednesday, March 30, 2016, with her devoted and loving family at her side.  With her unwavering faith in God and tremendous will to live she fought a courageous battle with breast cancer and was an […]

  • DCEDC Names Therma-Tron-X Industry of the Year

    The Door County Economic Development Corporation (DCEDC) honored Sturgeon Bay’s Therma-Tron-X, Inc. with the Door County Industry of the Year Award Thursday, April 7. The announcement came as part of the DCEDC’s annual investors meeting at Stone Harbor Resort & Conference Center in Sturgeon Bay. The Door County Industry of the Year Award recognizes a local construction, […]

  • Obituary: Walton Henry Mathison

    Walton Henry Mathison, 90, of Clay Banks, passed away at his home on March 30, 2016.  He was born on December 11, 1925, in Door County to Henry and Olga (Jome) Mathison.  On February 19, 1949, he married Nina Uecker in Forestville, she preceded him in death on January 16, 2004. Walton graduated from Sturgeon […]

  • Obituary: Teri Ann Oberg

    Teri Ann Oberg, 54 of Washington Island died at Scandia Village in Sister Bay on Wednesday, March 30, 2016. The family is honoring her wishes and there will be no services held at this time.

  • Obituary: Ruth D. Miller

    Ruth D. Miller, 96, of Sister Bay, died on Wednesday, March 30, 2016. She will be buried next to her husband Willis at Little Sister Cemetery in Sister Bay. The family will be honoring her wishes and having a Memorial Service at Scandia Village in Sister Bay at a later date. A Complete notice will […]