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  • Challenges Planned to S&S Jerseyland Dairy Expansion

    Ways to challenge the proposed expansion of the Forestville-based S&S Jerseyland Dairy were discussed Jan. 10 at the Forestville Public Library during an informational session hosted by the Friends of the Forestville Dam. S&S Jerseyland Dairy intends to increase its existing operation from the 7,654 animal units it reported a year ago to 14,711. The […]

  • Public Hearing Planned on Proposed S&S Jerseyland Dairy Expansion

    The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is planning a public hearing for Feb. 7, 10 am, via Zoom on the permit-renewal application from the Forestville-based S&S Jerseyland Dairy, which is seeking to expand its operation, said James Salscheider, a DNR agricultural runoff management specialist. S&S Jerseyland Dairy is a large-scale farming operation known as […]

  • Forestville Village Budget Heading for Hearing

    The Forestville Village Board spent much of its October meeting reviewing the proposed 2023 budget, which calls for $165,310.87 in income and expenditures – a nearly $7,000 decrease from the amounts budgeted for 2022. That budget will now be considered for final approval during the village board’s Nov. 21 meeting, when a public hearing will […]

  • Forestville Girl Participates in Pageant

    Brinlee Michiels of Forestville will compete in the National American Miss Pageant, All-American Jr. Pre-Teen division, over the Thanksgiving weekend in Orlando. The 10-year-old participated in the Miss Door County Princess program and has received the City Queen title of Miss Forestville. While competing in her first Wisconsin pageant in Madison, Michiels earned the Spirit […]

  • Letter to the Editor: A Human Problem

    I read a story in the Sept. 23-30 issue of the Pulse about Village of Forestville residents being pestered by stray cats. They were going to explore whether the humane society would charge the village for taking cats that have been trapped. In my opinion, asking volunteers to round up stray cats is cruel, ineffective […]

  • Stray Cats Pestering Village Residents

    The Village of Forestville is exploring what to do about a large number of stray cats within the village. During its Monday-evening board meeting, trustee Lora Jorgensen said she still has a couple of stray cats that go through her yard. “I have cameras at my house now,” she said. “They go off in the […]

  • Forestville Corn Maze Opens

    Red Barn in Forestville has opened its inaugural corn maze. Courtesy of the maze’s span of 10-plus acres, you can spend hours exploring more than two and a half miles of trails, test your investigative skills by finding the checkpoints, and solve the “Farm Scenes Investigation.”  Also enjoy the other activities: take a hayride, play […]

  • Forestville to Use ARPA Funds for Miller Avenue Sewer Project

    After receiving $21,352.39 last month as the second of two payments in federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds, Forestville Village President Terry McNulty said the village plans to use the money to cover additional expenses incurred with the Miller Avenue sewer project. “That will bring that cost back to hopefully close to where it […]

  • Letter to the Editor: Forestville Flowage Post-drawdown Update

    Dear Clark Lake Advancement Association members,  We ventured out on the Forestville flowage to the headwaters with our canoe. In our opinion, the environmental devastation is way beyond what we feared. Roughly 70% of the flowage is covered with growth that we did not witness before, and it’s carpeted with algae. We also observed woody […]

  • Fire Department Needs Minimum Water Level on Forestville Millpond

    One of the issues swirling around the water level of the Forestville Millpond is getting water from it in the event of a fire. Forestville village president Terry McNulty said that a water level of at least three feet needs to be in the millpond to ensure that the Southern Door Fire Department’s dry hydrant […]

  • St. Peter’s Holds English-Spanish Christmas Eve Service

    Spanish and English hymn stanzas, readings and prayers will be part of the 7:30 pm Christmas Eve service at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Forestville, and the sermon will be interpreted in Spanish. One stanza of “Silent Night” will also be sung in German; other parts of the service will be sung in Latin; and […]

  • St. Peter’s organiza servicio de Nochebuena en inglés-español

    Se utilizarán himnos, lecturas y oraciones en español e inglés en la misa de Nochebuena a las 7:30 pm en La Iglesia Luterana Saint Peter’s en Forestville. Se observará la tradición annual de una misa de lecciones y canticos (Villancicos) en la Nochebuena.  La Misa de este año en San Pedro incluirá algunas oraciones, lecturas […]

  • Veterans Teaching Veterans

    Door County Farm for Vets ready for first season of veteran farmers Jake VandenPlas was a gunner for his first tour in Iraq, a convoy commander for the second. The Wisconsin Army National Guardsman saw combat enough to recognize his good fortune. “There were a few times and several scenarios where you look back, and […]

  • Fish restocking truck

    DNR Stock Fish in Forestville Flowage

    In mid-October, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) stocked 2,351 largemouth bass, averaging 3.3 inches, and 47,949 fingerling bluegills in the Forestville Flowage, a 65-acre lake in Door County. The DNR’s Northfield Lake Fish Rearing Station in Jackson County provided the largemouth bass, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s National Fish Hatchery in […]

  • Mark Schlise Cherry Orchard

    Cherry-Industry Innovations Selected for Smithsonian Exhibit

    If the Town of Forestville doesn’t immediately pop up in connection with Door County’s cherry industry, Julie Schmelzer may succeed in changing that. As the director of business development for the Door County Economic Development Corporation (DCEDC), Schmelzer submitted an application to the Smithsonian Institution – the world’s largest museum, education and research complex – that […]

  • Reading-Challenge Winners Earn Dairy Baskets

    The East Maplewood Homemakers partnered with the Forestville Library to orchestrate a summer reading challenge. Every book that patrons read earned them an entry into a drawing – in five age categories – for a dairy basket.  Basket winners are Noah Fritsch (ages 0-7), Demarco Parks (ages 8-13), Thomas Jackson (ages 14-18), Julie Kielar (ages 19-64) […]

  • Forestville Millpond Refill Begins Sept. 1

    The Forestville Millpond drawdown will be coming to an end with refilling operations beginning by  approximately Sept. 1 and, weather depending, refilling being completed by Oct. 1. The Wisconsin Department of Natural  Resources (DNR) will stock the  millpond with largemouth bass and bluegill over the next several years. The DNR will provide more details in […]

  • Running the Hounds

    This is not your typical 16-year-old’s passion Tia Wiesner’s summer vacation plans could be traced to her two-year-old self who, dressed in camouflage bibs, accompanied her family on a black-bear hunt. “She was in the woods with us the whole while,” said Nicole Wiesner, Tia’s mother. Then she’s five years old, straddling her father’s shoulders […]

  • THIS OLD STORE: Englebert’s Clover Farm Store Was A Fixture in Forestville

    Gilbert and Agnes Englebert built their Clover Farm Store next to their home in Forestville in 1946 and owned it until 1967. Their daughter, Mary Englebert Neinas, remembered that it was a busy village back then.  “I grew up in the store,” she said. “Ours was one of three grocery stores in Forestville for a […]

  • Obituary: Kim Marie Denton

    Kim Marie Denton, 62, of Forestville, died on January 17, 2020.  She was born November 12, 1957, in Sturgeon Bay to Robert and Lee Ann (Bridenhagen) Jess. Survivors include her husband Grant Deshotels; two children, Jenny (Kerry Joe) Denil, Brussels; Ian (Fallon) Deshotels, Green Bay; two grandchildren, Karissa and Jax Denil; one brother, Karl Jess; […]