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  • Sevastopol School District Earns Second Highest Rating in DPI’s State Report Cards

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    The Wisconsin Department of Instruction (DPI) recently released the State Report Cards for the 2016-17 school year. Sevastopol School District received a score of 94.5 within an overall 83-100 accountability rating as Significantly Exceeds Expectations. Priority areas scored are Student Achievement, School Growth, Closing Gaps and On-Track and Postsecondary Readiness. Sevastopol School District’s score of […]

  • Portion of Spring Road Closing Nov. 29

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    On Wednesday, Nov. 29, the Door County Highway Department will be closing a section of Spring Road in the Town of Gibraltar, to install a new drainage structure. Spring Road will be closed to all thru traffic from 8 am until noon, from Peninsula Players Road to Wandering Road. Upon completion of the culvert installation, […]

  • Gibraltar School Senior Citizen Holiday Dinner Dec. 6

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    Gibraltar Area Schools and the Gibraltar High School Student Council invite you to their Annual Senior Citizen Holiday Dinner on Wednesday, Dec. 6, at 11 am. Guests will be seated in the Elementary School Gym starting at 10 am. Guests will enjoy performances by the Gibraltar High School Band, Middle School Choir and High School […]

  • Social Media Post Disrupts Morning at Gibraltar Schools

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    Gibraltar Schools Superintendent Tina Van Meer said the school is secure after an “implied threat” was posted to social media by a student Thursday morning. Van Meer could not provide details on what the threat entailed, but the school notified the Door County Sheriff’s Department upon learning of the post early this morning. The student […]

  • Northern Sky Theater Presents ‘Home for the Holidays 2017’

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    Door County’s award-winning Northern Sky Theater has announced the line-up for its annual holiday concert at the Old Gibraltar Town Hall. Now in its 11th year, “Home for the Holidays” will feature three talented performers Eric Lewis, Katie Dahl and Rich Higdon. The all-new concert for 2017 will play for six performances between Dec. 27 […]

  • White Cottage Red Door Extends Seasonal Hours

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    White Cottage Red Door will have extended seasonal hours through the end of the year. Their hours are 9 am – 5 pm Thursday through Monday, and 10 am – 4 pm Sunday. They are closed Tuesday and Wednesday. These hours are effective now through Dec. 30. They will be closed January through April, and […]

  • Marathon Meetings Now the Norm in Gibraltar

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    Gibraltar’s town board was preparing to discuss details of its upcoming highway reconstruction on Oct. 4 when board member Steve Sohns commented on the length of town discussions. “That was too much the other night,” said Sohns, referencing the Sept. 19 meeting with Andrew Dane from the planning firm Short Elliott Hendrickson (SEH). “You can’t […]

  • Gibraltar Considers Defunding Marigold Planting

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    The Town of Gibraltar proposed defunding a portion of the flower budget that goes toward planting marigolds along the Hwy. 42 corridor at a budget workshop on Oct. 18. At the regular town board meeting on Nov. 1, they will reconsider. “There was such an uproar that we decided to put it on the agenda,” […]

  • Blues & Roots Fest Welcomes Star-Studded Lineup to Door Nov. 2-4

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    Door Community Auditorium is pleased to present its second annual Blues & Roots Fest at 7 pm on November 2, 3, and 4 featuring Leyla McCalla, Mission Temple Fireworks Revival with Paul Thorn & The McCrary Sisters, Ruthie Foster, and The Fairfield Four. Opening Night Leyla McCalla (Thursday, Nov. 2) is a New York-born Haitian-American […]

  • No Gains in August Room Tax Collections

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    Room tax collections in August of this year decreased over the same month last year, flattened out by gains in some municipalities and losses in others. Sister Bay buoyed countywide collections in August with an 8.6 percent increase, while the City of Sturgeon Bay depressed the countywide total with a decrease of 9.9 percent. Ten […]

  • High School Fall Athletics Schedule: Oct. 13 – 20

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    GIBRALTAR Football Oct. 13 vs. Sevastopol, 7pm   Soccer (Boys) Oct. 17 – Regional, TBA   Volleyball Oct. 14 – Conference Tournament @ Oconto, 9:30am Oct. 17 – Regional @ Algoma, 7pm   SEVASTOPOL Football Oct. 13 @ Gibraltar, 7pm   Soccer (Boys) Oct. 17 – Regional, TBA   Swimming Oct. 14 @ Shorewood, 9am […]

  • Gibraltar Fire & Rescue Holds Open House Oct. 28

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    Gibraltar Fire & Rescue will hold an open house Oct. 28, 10 am – 2 pm, at their fire station at 3496 County F in Fish Creek. There will be station tours, kids games, equipment demos, apparatus displays, fire safety tips, food and drinks. Special guests include Door County EMS, Eagle III Helicopter, WI Department […]

  • Sister Bay, Jacksonport Continue to Lead Room Tax Gains in July

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    The Village of Sister Bay continues to make the largest gains in room tax revenue compared to collections in 2016, according to the July room tax report from the Door County Tourism Zone Commission. Sister Bay is quickly approaching Gibraltar as the top municipality for room tax collections in the summer. Sister Bay has collected […]

  • Gibraltar Cancels Homecoming Football Game

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     For the first time in its history, Gibraltar High School will not have a Homecoming football game. “No, this has never happened before. We are not having football,” confirmed Gibraltar School District Athletic Director Peggy Tanck. The Gibraltar Vikings were scheduled to play the Bowler/Gresham Panthers at 7 pm Friday as the culmination of a […]

  • Seaman Entertains for Final ‘Gibraltar Talks’ of 2017

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    The last “Gibraltar Talks” program of the season will have musical flair and entertain young and old alike. On Oct. 5 at 7 pm at the Old Town Hall in Fish Creek, David HB Drake will entertain the crowd. Drake has spent a lifetime singing about the sea, working on tall ships, and teaching the […]

  • Town of Gibraltar Aims to Shut Down Food Truck

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    When the owners of White Cottage Red Door, formerly Ray’s Cherry Hut, purchased a food truck to park on their property next to the retail store between Juddville and Fish Creek on Hwy 42, they didn’t think twice about it. Lisa Howard and her brother Chris Hadraba had the proper state permits for operation of […]

  • DNR Releases Eagle Tower Design Concepts

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    The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) released the three design concepts for Eagle Tower this week, just before a fundraiser for its reconstruction. Depending on the concept design chosen by the DNR, the Sept. 30 fundraiser featuring a live and silent auction of wood from Eagle Tower may be the final effort in raising funds […]

  • Gibraltar Downtown Planning Continues

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    Gibraltar Town Clerk Beth Hagen, Supervisor Steve Sohns and Town Chair Dick Skare listen to Andrew Dane, Senior Community Development and Sustainability Specialist at SEH in of Appleton, Wis., during a marathon review session of a streetscape plan for Fish Creek held on Sept. 19. One of the ideas pitched at the meeting that had […]

  • Community Invited to Gibraltar Homecoming Events

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    Gibraltar Area Schools welcomes alumni and the community to several events in northern Door County during homecoming week, Sept. 25 – 29. Boys soccer starts the week of Sept. 25 with a 6:30 pm game against Algoma. Other big events during the week include the Wednesday evening bonfire at the Baileys Harbor Recreation Park. The […]

  • Sports Injury Training Held at Gibraltar

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    Steve Weitman of Gibraltar Fire and Rescue said a “spectacular” training session was held the evening of Sept. 12 at Gibraltar High School involving three emergency scenarios with student athletes. Weitman, a physician/pediatrician who serves as a first responder with the Gibraltar Fire Department, came up with the idea to conduct an athletic injury training […]