Area: Fish Creek
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Deathfolk to Perform in DCA’s Fireside Lobby
On Feb. 20 at 7 pm, Door Community Auditorium (DCA) will present a coffeehouse concert in the Fireside Lobby by Deathfolk, the popular Door County duo made up of Jess Holland and Nick Hoover. Brought together by their love of dark folk songs, Holland and Hoover began playing as a duo in 2010. Early in […]
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Masters of the Fiddle Return to DCA Feb. 14
Several years ago I heard Natalie MacMaster play her fiddle at the Door Community Auditorium (DCA), performing in a style that combines French, Celtic, bluegrass and Cajun music. She spoke to the audience about her childhood in Nova Scotia’s Cape Breton, and the ceilidhs (KAY-lees) her family enjoyed, Gaelic social gatherings featuring fiddle music and […]
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Peninsula Park Plans Improved Nature Center
The White Cedar Nature Center sits in the heart of Peninsula State Park and it is due for an update. Park officials teamed with the Friends of Peninsula State Park to secure funds for the project that is 50 years in the making. “In the original nature center plans, which date to 1965, there […]
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Winter Fest’s Pie Tin Toss to Benefit Michael Murphy
Sweetie Pies will hold a special fundraiser on Feb. 6 at Fish Creek Winter Festival. This year, proceeds of the popular Pie Tin Toss will go to help cover the health care costs of Michael Murphy, who suffers from a form of leukemia. Murphy is the husband of Sweetie Pies’ founder Susan Croissant. The Pie […]
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Husband-and-Wife Fiddlers at DCA on Valentine’s Day
On Feb. 14, Door Community Auditorium (DCA) will present “Masters of the Fiddle,” a high-energy concert of fiddle music by Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy. MacMaster and Leahy are two of the world’s most celebrated fiddlers – and they just happen to be married to each other. At DCA, MacMaster and Leahy will perform the […]
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Girl Scout Brownie Troop Visits Ministry Clinic and Door County Humane Society
Girl Scout Brownie Troop #4356, second graders from Gibraltar Elementary School, took advantage of a recent day off school to begin work on two badges. They worked with Lindsey Donohue, clinic supervisor at Ministry Health Care North Shore Clinic, on the First Aid Badge on Jan. 22. They then traveled to the Door County Humane […]
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Dendler On Exhibit in Boston and New York
Deborah Dendler, artist and resident of Fish Creek, is exhibiting oil paintings and relief sculptures in the Illuminations exhibition at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, from Feb. 1 to July 1, 2016. Illuminations is an invitational exhibit that brings high-caliber works of art in various mediums to the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center. The exhibit is […]
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Calling All Goof Balls to Fruit Loop Fun Run
Lace up your sneakers and put on your favorite costume for Fish Creek Winter Festival’s annual “Fruit Loop Fun Run” at 10:30 am on Feb. 7. This “1/53rd of a marathon” (half-mile) run/walk through downtown Fish Creek begins and ends at the heated tent in Clark Park, is free, and open to kids and adults […]
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Letter to the Editor: Support Water Conservation Organizations
Water protection in our state is not adequate, and is going downhill. High capacity wells and “concentrated animal feeding operations” (CAFOs) are stressing groundwater and surface water throughout Wisconsin. The situation is so dire that citizens have petitioned the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to take back authority for implementation of the 1972 Clean Water […]
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“All Things Chocolate” at Old Fish Creek Town Hall on Feb. 6
Can you think of a better way to enjoy a winter day than to have loads of sweet chocolate to choose from? Come by the Old Town Hall in Fish Creek on Feb. 6, 10 am – 3 pm, for the Gibraltar Historical Association’s “All Things Chocolate.” Chocolate covered Oreos, pretzels and cherries, chess pie, […]
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Raise Your Glass with the Happy Schnapps Combo
For nearly three decades, Fish Creek’s Winter Festival has become the Door County event most known for a hodgepodge of random, hokey events and competitions – an oversized kickball tournament, minnow racing, a bike toss, and a Stumpf Fiddle Contest among them. So it’s only appropriate that the fun and games are accompanied by as […]
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Start Fish Creek Winter Festival with “Feed the Fish” Screening
On Feb. 5 at 7 pm, Door Community Auditorium (DCA), in conjunction with Fish Creek Winter Festival, will sponsor a screening of the Tony Shalhoub film Feed the Fish, which has been a favorite of Door County audiences ever since it was filmed on the peninsula in 2009. Set in Door County, Feed the Fish […]
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True North Ranked First in Gross MLS Sales
For the fourth consecutive year, True North Real Estate, LLC ranked first in gross sales according to the Door County Multiple Listing Service (MLS). In 2015, True North outsold every other brokerage firm in Door County with an increase of 43 percent in sales over 2014. Per the MLS data, the entire Door/Kewaunee market showed […]
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High School Winter Athletics: Feb. 5 – 12, 2016
GIBRALTAR Boys Basketball Feb. 5 vs. NEW Lutheran, 7:30 pm Feb. 6 vs. Omro, 6:30 pm Feb. 9 @ Oconto, 7:30 pm Girls Basketball Feb. 8 vs. Coleman, 7:15 pm Feb. 11 vs. Sevastopol, 7:30 pm SEVASTOPOL Boys Basketball Feb. 9 @ Kewaunee, 7:30 pm Girls Basketball Feb. 5 vs. Kewaunee, 5 pm Feb. […]
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The Hardy and PenArt Collaborate for Hamilton Press Workshop
The Hardy Gallery and Peninsula School of Art are partnering to present an exciting opportunity for those interested in learning the art of printmaking from the experts: The Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum. The demonstration will showcase how a traditional letter wood type press works followed by a workshop, which is offered to anyone […]
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How Bob Spielman Became the Winter Fest Guy
It’s about 48 hours before Winter Festival kicks off in Fish Creek and organizer Bob Spielman is wondering how to get the Happy Schnapps Combo van to the stage amidst the beer-drinking bowlers in the main tent. “That’s still kind of a mindblower to me,” said Spielman from his woodworking shop in Fish Creek. “Then […]
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By the Numbers: PenArt’s SOUP!
Ten years ago, Peninsula School of Art hosted its first annual SOUP! event, a community-wide effort bringing local children and adults together to create and decorate bowls to be sold for the benefit of local charities and the art school’s free children’s outreach programs. This year’s SOUP! event, “Cheers to 10 Years,” is scheduled for […]
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Join the Stumpf Fiddle Contest at 2016 Winter Fest
On Feb. 6 at 2:30 pm, music and entertainment enthusiasts of all ages from near and far are invited to partake in a free, one-of-a-kind Stumpf Fiddle Contest at Fish Creek Winter Festival. Gibraltar Schools’ band director Charlie Eckhardt will emcee the contest. No experience with the Stumpf Fiddle is necessary (or expected) for this […]
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Framed: Tori Daubner and Ginny Sowinski
Tori Daubner, as Tweedle Dee, and Ginny Sowinski, as the White Rabbit, during Peninsula School of Art’s Mad Hatter’s Ball on Jan. 23. Photo by Alyssa Skiba.
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Winter Festivals, Pond Hockey, Super Bowl & More Weekend Plans
It’s a weekend of celebrating the quiet season in Door County! Head to the lake side to celebrate Baileys Harbor’s Winter Carnival and the 3rd Annual Pond Hockey tournament or head to the bay side for Fish Creek’s 29th annual Winter Festival. No matter where you spend the weekend, you’re sure to stow away some […]