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  • Eagles Wrestlers Place at State

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    Congratulations to Southern Door Eagles wrestlers Zakery Wrobel and Katelyn LeCloux for placing third and fourth place respectively at the Wisconsin Wrestling Federation State Championships in Madison, March 25-26. Wrobel and LeCloux participated in some great wrestling and put forth a lot of effort to get to the championship rounds against the best wrestlers in […]

  • High School Spring Athletics: April 8, 2016

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    GIBRALTAR   Baseball April 8 & 9 – Tournament @ Woodside Sports Complex, 2 pm April 11 @ Sevastopol, 5 pm April 14 vs. Southern Door, 5 pm   Golf April 14 @ The Woods, 4 pm   Softball April 11 @ Sevastopol, 5 pm April 14 vs. Southern Door, 5 pm   Track and […]

  • Overheard and Shout Outs: April 8, 2015

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    OVERHEARD Are there tid-bits of conversations you’ve heard while standing in line at the grocery store, serving a table, or walking down the sidewalk that make you smile, cringe or laugh out loud?   “I like all these things: old people, yoga, drinking.”   “I been into girls since K-4!”   “You don’t have to […]

  • Pizza Palooza Fundraiser on April 7 Benefits Community’s Garden

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    The Community’s Garden will hold their fifth annual Pizza Palooza fundraiser on April 7, 5 – 7 pm, at the Sturgeon Bay Yacht Club. Participants will work alongside local chefs Veronica Ripp of the Get Real Café and Casey Andrews of Sevastopol Schools to create their own personal pizzas. Pre-made whole wheat or cauliflower pizza […]

  • Take A Visual Trip of the Amazon at First Baptist Church of Sister Bay

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    Kiwanis Club and Rotary Club of Door County North’s final travelogue program of the season takes moviegoers on an adventure deep into the least inhabited and pristine rainforest of the Rio Negro and Amazon rivers’ region of the Amazon basin. Returning to present this exotic and rarely visited destination is award-winning filmmaker Marlin Darrah. Darrah […]

  • Wisconsin Railroads Featured at Next Door County Historical Society Meeting

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    All aboard as the Door County Historical Society kicks off its monthly dinner and program series featuring “Wisconsin Railroads – From the Lead Mining Badgers to Transportation for Door County Cherries!” by Bob Lettenberger of the National Railroad Museum. This program is a joint meeting and presentation with the Peninsula Genealogical Society. The meeting will […]

  • High Schoolers Combine Talents for “LEAP – The Human Kindness Project”

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    Ministry Door County Medical Center (MDCMC), together with 30 Door County high school students and 10 creative facilitators, proudly presents “LEAP – The Human Kindness Project” on April 15 at Southern Door Community Auditorium. LEAP is an acronym for “Learning to Empower and Appreciate all People.” Inspired by Terry Lundahl, in her role of developing […]

  • Peninsula Arts & Humanities Alliance Joins “Arts & Economic Prosperity® 5” Study

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    The arts mean business. That is the message being delivered by Door County’s Peninsula Arts & Humanities Alliance (PAHA), who announced it has joined the Arts & Economic Prosperity® 5, a national study measuring the economic impact of nonprofit arts and culture organizations and their audiences. The research study is being conducted by Americans for […]

  • Peninsula Singers Hold Pair of Mother’s Day Concerts

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    Join The Peninsula Singers on Mother’s Day weekend as Door County’s premier choir presents their biennial concerts, dedicated to the late Robert Oftedahl, long-time singer and member of the Board of Directors. Artistic Director Merle Colburn has chosen a variety of music to challenge the 60-voice choir, including a medley of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s most […]

  • Viewing Nights Held Rain or Shine at Leif Everson Observatory

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    With the first peep of the spring peepers, Crossroads at Big Creek launched a Challenge Match to raise money to expand their parking lot in an environmentally responsible way. They hope to develop a storm water runoff system to ensure that the water leaving the lot and entering the wetlands will be as clean as […]

  • Volunteers Needed for Midwest Crane Count

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    The Ridges is seeking volunteers to participate in the 41st Annual Midwest Crane Count on April 16, 5:30 to 7:30 am. Join volunteers from across Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Michigan to monitor the return of cranes to their northern breeding grounds. Counters are needed to survey on designated sites throughout Door County. No […]

  • Tickets Now On Sale for Lighthouse Festival

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    Tickets are now on sale for the 23rd annual Door County Lighthouse Festival, June 10 – 12. The festival includes boat excursions and guided land-based tours spotlighting 11 historic Door County lighthouses. This much-anticipated festival gives visitors access to lighthouses that aren’t typically open to the public, including Chambers Island, Plum Island and Sherwood Point […]

  • Complete Spring Election Results: Ephraim Dry No More

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    Wisconsin’s last dry community voted overwhelmingly to allow sales of beer and wine in the April 5 election. There were two questions related to the sale of alcohol on the ballot. The first asked voters to approve sales of beer for on or off-premise consumption, while the second asked voters to approve the sale of wine […]

  • Plum Bottom Opens The Ikebana Show

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    Plum Bottom Pottery & Gallery invites the community to Art Show 3 – The Ikebana Show on April 9, 10 am – 4 pm. It’s time to think spring and enjoy these handmade pottery pieces that have their roots in Japanese flower arranging traditions. The Japanese term Ikebana means “the art of flower arranging.” Plum […]

  • Still Room in Turtle Ridge Art Camp

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    After the smashing success of their first Art Camp, Turtle Ridge is offering a second session in April. Art Camp II – Make Your Own Bag will focus on construction techniques and functionality. Participants will take one pattern and choose to construct a bag to fit their lifestyle: a backpack, a tote or a crossbody. […]

  • Ceramic Bowl Fundraiser at Southern Door Fine Arts Festival

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    Southern Door Elementary and Middle School will present the 16th annual Fine Arts Festival on April 14. The Visual Art Department will host a reception and celebration from 5 to 8 pm. The Fine Arts Festival focuses on the artwork hung in exhibition that was created by students with regular attendance in visual art classes […]

  • Folk Icon Jack Williams at Lost Moth Gallery

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    With great excitement Lost Moth Gallery welcomes folk icon Jack Williams in concert on April 9 at 7 pm. Williams, a South Carolina-born artist, is celebrated by the contemporary U.S. folk community as a singer/songwriter of national stature and an uncommonly unique guitarist who Sing Out! Magazine describes as “one of the strongest guitarists in […]

  • Final Great Lakes/Great Books Club is in May at Maritime Museum

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    The Door County Maritime Museum and Write On, Door County partner to present a Great Lakes/Great Books Club featuring books that have a Great Lakes focus. Works of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry will be discussed with a facilitator from Write On. The next meeting is May 5 and the featured book is Safe From the […]

  • The Bestseller List: April 5, 2016

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    TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 1. A Man Called Ove, by Fredrik Backman 2. The Little Paris Bookshop, by Nina George 3. Bottomland, by Michelle Hoover 4. Me Before You, by Jojo Moyes 5. Ordinary Grace, by William Kent Krueger   TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION  1. H Is for Hawk, by Helen Macdonald 2. Dead Wake:  The Last […]

  • Hanne Gault Headlines Dickinson Poetry Series

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    The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship’s Dickinson Poetry Series reading at 7 pm on April 13 celebrates several events. First, it is National Poetry Month, when the annual Emily Dickinson Poetry Series always begins a new season. Second, it represents the beginning of the eighth year of the Dickinson Poetry Series. And finally, it recognizes the 20th […]