Area: Door County
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0 Cost of entry to the three-day March Madness Music Festival to be held in Houston April 1-3, featuring Maroon 5. 1.2 Percentage of college basketball players who are drafted by an NBA team. 75 Percentage of college basketball players who believe they will play professional basketball. 50 The percentage increase […]
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Letter to the Editor: Vote for Bhirdo
A very important election is coming up on April 5. Yes, it is very important to choose wisely in the presidential primaries, but even more important is your local election for the Village Board of Trustees. They are the people most directly responsible to you for the smooth operation of your village. By contacting Christy […]
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Letter to the Editor: Open Letter to Mayor Birmingham
On Tuesday, March 8, I emailed to you to relate my concerns about hate speech, and I asked for your thoughts about the published derision and implicit legal threats which I viewed as very near to public incitement to violence and thus citizen endangerment, which were directed against the Friends of Sturgeon Bay Public Waterfront. […]
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Letter to the Editor: Republican Party Trumpery
The Republicans in Congress are getting what they deserve. Trumpery as defined in the American Heritage Dictionary: showy but worthless finery; bric-a-brac; nonsense; rubbish; deception; trickery; fraud. While Barack Obama has been our U.S. president the GOP in Congress has obstructed nearly every good proposal he introduced. They operated in a way to make Congress […]
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Letter to the Editor: Vote Yes for Sturgeon Bay Schools
Great communities are defined by a multitude of factors – one of them being excellent schools. Sturgeon Bay has a long history of an excellent school system going back many, many years. I am writing this letter to encourage Sturgeon Bay residents to keep their schools great by voting YES on the upcoming referendum. Our […]
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Letter to the Editor: Don’t Budge on the Budget
As you can tell by the recent mailing, it’s time for the tri-annual slap in the face by the Sturgeon Bay School District, flaunting its inability to operate its business of education in a fiscally sound manner as a badge of honor instead of calling it what it is: poor fiscal management. And our elected […]
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Letter to the Editor: Do Your Job
True to form, Congress again refuses to do their job. They say “no” again for the umpteenth time. From the very beginning when Mitch McConnell said we are going to make Obama a one-term president and we are not going to cooperate, they have been true to their word. Their political strategy of never-ending obstructionism […]
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Climate Change Shifting Wine Grape Harvests
During a study of wine grape harvest dates from 1600 to 2007, researchers discovered harvests began shifting dramatically earlier during the latter half of the 20th century. These shifts were caused by changes in the connection between climate and harvest timing. While earlier harvests from 1600 to 1980 occurred in years with warmer and drier […]
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Shade Tree Offered for National Arbor Day
National Arbor Day is Friday, April 29, this year, and the Arbor Day Foundation is making it easy for anyone to celebrate the annual tree-planting holiday. Join the Foundation in April and receive 10 free shade trees. By joining the Foundation in April, new members receive the following trees: red oak, sugar maple, weeping willow, […]
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This is Mya, a one-year-old beautiful female Terrier mix that’s full of energy and life. She loves to play all day long and doesn’t have any other speed than “full throttle.” Often compared to the Energizer Bunny, Mya is still very much in a playful puppy mindset. She has a light warm toffee-colored coat embellished […]
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Coordinated Community Response Column: Domestic Violence & Pet Abuse
By Anni Lampert, Program Coordinator, Leadership Door County Imagine you are in a relationship where verbal attacks on your looks, your intelligence, your choice of career or friends, your family – anything near to your heart – go from happening once in a great while to much more often. “Oh, I can handle his nonsense. […]
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Clean Water Action Council Plans Conference to Promote Farm Tourism
The Clean Water Action Council of Northeast Wisconsin and Wisconsin Farmers Union are presenting a conference for farmers, members of the tourist industry, and residents to learn how agritourism can increase farm income while helping to maintain rural countryside. “Agritourism-Promoting Our Rural Sense of Place” will be held on April 5 from 11 am – […]
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Commentary: Reflections on the DNR’s ‘Do Not Respond’ Blacklist
By Nancy Utesch Can you imagine anything more volatile within a government agency, our Department of Natural Resources, than a Do Not Respond blacklist of people, kept and updated since 2013? The blacklist is a direct restriction on our rights to an open and transparent government, and access to public government documents and employees. The […]
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Municipal News: March 25 – April 1
City of Sturgeon Bay: The Finance/Purchasing & Building Committee meets at 4 pm on March 29. County of Door: The Legislative Committee meets at 3 pm on March 30. Rep. Joel Kitchens will be at the meeting to discuss issues from the last legislative session as well as to plan for the next session. Village […]
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Door County winters are the time to slow your pace, reconnect with friends and family, and indulge in some very overdue me time. But now we are past the midway point of March and the tourist season is only a few months away. While we may wish for more time, reality has something very different […]
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How Schools Communicate with the Community
During any unexpected event, from a changed meeting location to a natural disaster, parents want to know that schools will communicate with them quickly, effectively and truthfully. The days of phone chains, where a string of communication filtered from the administration down to each child’s household with individual phone calls, are gone. They have been […]
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The Climate Corner: Climate Change’s Unseen Consensus
By Anthony Leiserowitz, Ph.D., School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale University In the history of science, there have been few instances in which almost all experts in a particular field were in complete agreement. Climate change is one of those instances. Nearly two decades of research has converged on the following fact: More than […]
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Price Report: Terrorism and Markets
Big global events typically have a strong effect on the global markets. The 2008 housing bubble burst in the United States brought the world economy to its knees. But terrorism doesn’t have quite the same effect. After the attacks in Brussels earlier this week, markets only rebounded a bit before recovering later in the same […]
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Baldwin Calls on Walker to Restore Food Assistance
Representative Joel Kitchens Kitchens received an award at the Wisconsin Association of Campground Owners (WACO) State Convention in Stevens Point for his efforts in passing Assembly Bill 174, which helps to protect campground owners in cases where a camper is injured at no fault of the campground owner. Private campground owners will no longer need […]
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Scholarships, Inc. Accepting Applications
Scholarships, Inc., a nonprofit organization that provides assistance and encouragement to area students as they explore higher education opportunities, is currently accepting scholarship applications from area high school seniors. Applications are due by Thursday, April 7, at 11:59 pm. Students attending a high school in Brown or Door counties are eligible to apply for all […]