Area: Fish Creek
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Server of the Week: Holly Somerhalder
If a literary enthusiast is who you seek May I suggest Holly Somerhalder in Fish Creek? The library branch manager for 45 years There’s no doubt it’s a place she holds very dear. Authors who make this bookworm eager? Kent Haruf and William Kent Krueger. But if you’re looking for the source of the […]
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Peninsula Players Receives Grant from Community Foundation
The Door County Community Foundation recently awarded Peninsula Players a Sustainability Grant from the Arts Fund to support the program, The Play’s the Thing. Components of the program involve offering free, off-season play readings to the public and also provides opportunities for students to receive playwriting instruction that culminates in a playwriting contest. The free […]
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Take that, winter! Max Spiegel enjoys the first day of April at Weborg Point in Peninsula State Park. Photo by Tim Sweet.
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Peninsula State Park Launches its 17th Annual Like to Hike Program
Peninsula State Park is launching its 17th annual Like to Hike program with an easy mile-and-a-half hike on April 8, 2 – 3 pm. The hike begins at the Nicolet Beach Shelter. The shelter faces Nicolet Bay, once called Shanty Bay for the fishing and camping shanties that once lined the shore. Participants will walk […]
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Gibraltar Schools Counselors Honored
During the Wisconsin School Counselor Association (WSCA) conference, Gibraltar School District was honored for the school counselors’ dedication and commitment to the school counseling field and her students. This year, 10 school counseling programs received the Program of Promise award at the annual WSCA conference in Madison. The Program of Promise award is the highest […]
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Northern Sky 2017 Summer Season Tickets Now Available
Northern Sky Theater announces ticket sales and casting for their 2017 summer season. Northern Sky’s lineup includes four musical comedies playing in rotating repertory from June 14 to Aug. 26 at their amphitheater in Peninsula State Park. This summer will see the return of familiar faces as well as a new troupe of interns. “Our […]
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Scott Cook to Play at Last Concert for White Gull Inn Winter Series
Singer-songwriter Scott Cook will perform April 5 at the White Gull Inn in Fish Creek. It is the last concert of the inn’s winter season. Tickets for the 8 pm performance are $19. A roots balladeer with a rare personal warmth, Canada’s Scott Cook has managed to distill the stories collected over a decade of […]
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Good Start for Gibraltar’s Track and Field Team
The Gibraltar High School track and field team began their season competing on March 16 & 17. On March 16, the boys competed indoors at University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh. Gibraltar’s top finisher was Caleb House in the 3200m run, who finished sixth overall and third in Division 3 with a time of 10:31.9. For […]
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Peninsula Players Presented “Salvage” and Prepares for Final Play Reading
Peninsula Players Theater presented a reading of Salvage by Joseph Zettelmaier at Björklunden on March 6 to an audience of more than 100. Salvage was produced as part of The Play’s the Thing, a winter series of play readings organized by Peninsula Players Theater. Participants and audience members enjoyed the evening’s performance by Peninsula Players […]
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Indivisible Door County Sponsors “Civics 101” Class
On April 3 at 6:30 pm, Andrew Holdmann will offer a “Civics 101” class at the Old Gibraltar Town Hall. Among other things, Holdmann (a social studies teacher at Gibraltar High School) will discuss the basics of U.S. government, including how bills become law. The class is free and open to the public; freewill donations […]
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Natalee Ihde Receives 2017 Beginning Cheesemaker Scholarship
A Door County woman with a Culinary Arts degree and professional cheesemongering experience is the recipient of the 2017 Beginning Cheesemaker Scholarship from Wisconsin Cheese Originals. Natalee Ihde, of Fish Creek, will use the $2,500 award to begin the process of earning her Wisconsin Cheesemaker’s License. Wisconsin is the only state to require cheesemakers to […]
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Letter to the Editor: Write In Stephen Seyfer on April 4 Ballot
Dear Gibraltar Area School District Voters, You, the voters, will be given the opportunity to vote in the April 4 school board election. My name will appear on the ballot. I made the decision in December to submit my Declaration of Candidacy based on the information available to me at the time. As many of […]
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Letter to the Editor: Consider My Candidacy for Gibraltar School Board
I am informed that Wendy Minten, incumbent member of the Gibraltar Area School Board and a candidate for re-election on the April 4 ballot, will soon relocate to an overseas community. While she did not know of her relocation at the time she submitted her application for candidacy, she has learned that Wisconsin election law […]
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Letter to the Editor: I Ask for Your Vote, Gibraltar
With all the meetings I have during the month, on the town board and the county board, I have had little time to focus on campaigning. April 4th is right around the corner and I’m once again asking for your vote. I have worked hard to support the needs of our beautiful and historic town […]
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Gregg E. Powell, 78, of Fish Creek, passed away peacefully on Sunday evening, March 12, 2017 at Aurora BayCare Medical Center in Green Bay. With his family by his side, he shared jokes, told stories, and was surrounded by love. He was born September 10, 1938 in Portland, ME, the son of Edward and Margaret […]
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J.R. and Anna Jarosh (4th grade) read together in a tent at Gibraltar Elementary’s Family Literacy Night on March 7. Submitted.
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Poet Naomi Shihab Nye Comes to Door County
The daughter of a Palestinian father and an American mother, Naomi Shihab Nye is a poet whose work resonates with us today. In her poem “Grandfather’s Heaven” a child says, “Grandma liked me even though my daddy was a Moslem.” Nye will come to Door County on March 23 for an evening reading of her […]
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Letter to the Editor: Constitutional ‘Balloons and String’ Theory
Indicating clearly that there is little chance that he has ever read and/or comprehended any of the 2017 SB13/AB44 which calls for non-partisan legislative redistricting for Wisconsin, based upon the present Iowa model, while appearing on Sturgeon Bay radio Feb. 13, Senator Frank “Einstein” Lasee outlined a certifiably psychedelic flashback describing balloons, strings and random […]