Area: Ephraim
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Server of the Week: Vanessa Williquette at The Spa at Sacred Grounds
Does your back ache? Are your muscles sore? A visit to Vanessa Williquette should be in store. A massage therapist at The Spa at Sacred Grounds She’s a wonderful person to have around! From the very moment that you arrive You’ll be captivated by her free-spirit vibe. She’s a singer, dancer and actor who […]
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City of Sturgeon Bay: The Parking & Traffic Committee meets at 3:30 pm on March 21. County of Door: The ADRC Advisory Board meets at the Door County Senior Resource Center at 4 pm on March 21. The Library Board meets at 5 pm in the Jane Greene Room of the Door County Library in […]
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Canvases Now Available for Hardy’s Community Mosaic Project
Now in its ninth year, The Community Mosaic Project, presented in partnership by The Hardy Gallery and the Artists Guild in Sturgeon Bay, has – and continues – to bring together the community to create a visual tapestry of public art at the Hardy’s iconic facility in Ephraim. This year’s project will be on display […]
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Letter to the Editor: Look Forward, Not Backward
In two recent letters to the editor, Tony Beadell stated his opposition to allowing Ephraim restaurants to serve beer and wine. In his first letter, he said he’d like Ephraim to remain much as it was back in the 1950s, and he believes continuing to prohibit the sale of alcohol in restaurants will help achieve […]
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Ephraim Sets Date for Alcohol License Info. Meeting
Ephraim will hold an informational meeting on alcohol licenses on Wednesday, March 23, at 6 pm in the village hall. The village will bring in Claire Silverman, legal counsel with the League of Wisconsin Municipalities, to act as the informational authority on the details of the beer and wine referendum. The board hoped to have […]
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John Grochowski Named Director of Operations of Ephraim Historical Foundation
The Ephraim Historical Foundation announced that John Grochowski has joined the organization as the director of operations. Grochowski comes to the foundation from Devils Lake, North Dakota, where he served as the director of the Lake Region Heritage Center. His previous experience includes four years at the Milwaukee Jewish Federation in a variety of administrative […]
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Call for Artists for The Hardy’s Fall Show
The Hardy Gallery invites artists and craftspeople of Door County and throughout Wisconsin to submit images of their work for the Hardy Gallery’s final exhibit of the 2016 season, Form Follows Function: The Intersection of Art and Craft. The exhibit will focus on the principles associated with the Bauhaus School movement, which promoted simplicity of […]
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Letter to the Editor: Beer, Wine and a Small Business
My wife and I own and operate the Chef’s hat restaurant in Ephraim. After reading, listening and talking to many people I feel the need to let people know from a business and personal perspective what the vote truly entails for a small business located here in beautiful downtown historic Ephraim. On April 5, Ephraim […]
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‘A Place at the Table’ is next in Movies That Matter Series
On March 15 at 4:30 pm, Movies That Matter presents A Place at the Table, a documentary by Lori Silverbush and Kristi Jacobson that explores hunger in the United States. Fifty million people in the United States – including one in four children – suffer from hunger and do not get enough to eat on […]
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Pastels from Ethel Davis Grace the UU Gallery
The UU Gallery is pleased to present the work of Sturgeon Bay resident Ethel Mortenson Davis during the months of March and April. Ethel was born in Wisconsin where her parents were dairy farmers in Marathon County. Her years on the farm instilled a deep sense of the earth and the various forms of life. […]
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Letter to the Editor: Let’s Go Out to Eat in Ephraim!
While I enjoyed Tony Beadell’s skillfully written letter regarding Ephraim’s April 5th ballot referendum on first time sale of wine and beer, and I like his comment that, “Life in Ephraim today is the collective wisdom of thousands of villagers over multiple generations,” I don’t entirely agree. I do see collective wisdom in the Ephraim […]
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March Dickinson Poetry Series Features Nancy Rafal
Nancy Rafal is the featured reader at the Dickinson Poetry Series on Wednesday, March 9 at 7 pm. Rafal has been writing poetry for the last two decades. She is not a “disciplined” writer and writes when the spirit moves her. Her work has appeared in many issues of the Wisconsin Poets’ Calendar, Hummingbird and […]
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Fourteen New Tourism Ambassadors in Door County after DCVB Program
Fourteen individuals completed the internationally recognized Certified Tourism Ambassador (CTA) Program offered through the Door County Visitor Bureau on Feb. 23, 2016. Graduates of the program learned about our local history, area attractions, useful resources, and customer service. These Door County Tourism Ambassadors will provide quality service and hospitality to visitors, which can result in […]
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2016 Door County Silent Sports Events
We’ve made your planning easy with this guide to getting active in Door County in 2016, whether you want to do it on foot, by pedal or by paddle.
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The Hillside Inn of Ephraim will have its grand opening reception on March 3, 5 – 7 pm. Come take a tour, enjoy light refreshment and meet the new owner Diane Taillon and the rest of the managing staff of the inn. The Hillside Inn of Ephraim strives to be an asset to both visitors […]
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Nov. 21, 1942 – Feb. 19, 2016 Donald Oscar Rank, 73, of Ephraim, died at home with family at his side. He had been battling lung cancer the past three years. Don was born in Milwaukee, the son of Lavern George Rank and Thurley Irene (Schelinske) Rank. Following his graduation from Custer High School in […]
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Letter to the Editor: Ephraim, Alcohol and Respecting the Past
When Pastor Andreas Iverson and his parishioners joined the other emigrants leaving Stavanger, Norway, for America and eventually Ephraim, little did they know how long, arduous and dangerous that trip would be. The 74 emigrants, excluding Reverend Iverson and his wife, who had a cabin, were assigned the space below deck, which was often used […]
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A meeting of state representatives and officials from the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) resulted in the goal of opening Eagle Tower in the spring of 2017. A statement from Door Property Owners (DPO) Vice President Kathie Vavra alleged that there was an agreement and commitment from the DNR to open the tower, but officials […]
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Letter to the Editor: We Are Caretakers of Our Past
Oh my, Paul Burton suggests that serving alcohol in Ephraim will open up opportunity to have “fine dining” in the village. For that “opportunity,” our village is being asked to give up a very important aspect of its heritage, a part of our culture established by our Moravian founders 163 years ago. Apparently, fine dining […]