Area: Gibraltar
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Gibraltar High School Looks for More AP Classes
Gibraltar High School Principal Jim DeBroux is intensively reworking the school’s secondary course guide, completing updates such as removing a virtual-learning requirement and pinpointing a timetable when withdrawal from a class would result in a failure on a student’s report card. Primarily, DeBroux is looking for ways to add more opportunities for growth and learning […]
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Gibraltar Schools May Keep the Fun in Snow Days
The Gibraltar School Board on Monday discussed a plan for virtual-learning days when a major snowstorm is forecast, but board members did not agree on whether to allow for at least one or two pure snow days. Tasked with crafting a school calendar with enough instruction time, Superintendent Brett Stousland this fall proposed that the […]
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No-school Day Planned for Gibraltar Teacher Training
The Gibraltar school board this week approved not having classes for elementary-school students on Jan. 10, 2023, to allow for a lengthy training day for their teachers. On Monday, board members asked administrators to contact the YMCA, local child care facilities and families to notify them as soon as possible. Board member Karen Nordahl did […]
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Gibraltar Preparing for April Building Referendum
Formal question for voters expected to be developed by Jan. 9 On the heels of the successful passage in November of the $14.9 million building referendum for the Southern Door School District, the Gibraltar School District is now preparing a multimillion-dollar building referendum for the April ballot. Formulating that question precisely and outlining the project […]
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Gibraltar Preps for April Building Referendum
On the heels of the successful passage in November of the $14.9 million building referendum for the Southern Door School District, the Gibraltar School District is now preparing a multimillion-dollar building referendum for the April ballot. Formulating that question precisely and outlining the project will require a series of steps that must take place in […]
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Around the Door: Fun at the Fire Station
Firefighters showed young superheroes the ropes at the Gibraltar Fire Department’s Oct. 29 Halloween open house. Kids got a chance to use fire hoses, meet Smokey the Bear, climb into fire trucks and jump in the bounce house. Photos courtesy of Gibraltar Fire & Rescue.
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The Peninsula Pulse’s Myles Dannhausen Jr. visited the third- and fourth-grade multi-age class at Gibraltar Elementary Oct. 20 to help the students with their class newspaper. Dannhausen gave a presentation and some editing tips for the students’ articles. The budding journalists are doing such a great job of creating their own newspaper that we almost […]
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The Gibraltar Area School District already had one of the two lowest tax rates in Wisconsin, and then private-property valuations in Northern Door County rose dramatically during the past two years. As a result, the Gibraltar district saw its projected tax rate decline from a possible $3.41 per $1,000 of taxable property value earlier this […]
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Huge Repair, Building Costs Estimated for Gibraltar
Gibraltar Area School Board members learned during a report on issues with the school buildings that costs for repairs could range from $21 million to $50 million. Two construction-company officials this month noted that Gibraltar’s campus includes 10 building additions, and repairing and updating the oldest sections in the center of the school likely would […]
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Gibraltar Town Board Seats New Supervisor
Having pondered the applicants who wanted to fill a vacant seat on the Gibraltar Town Board, the town has selected Karl Stubenvoll, a former town board member. Stubenvoll was one of six people who applied for the seat vacated by Tim Luettgen, who resigned effective Sept. 30 because he’d be spending more time in Florida. […]
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The Gibraltar School District celebrated Homecoming last week with a parade through Fish Creek that included the Homecoming court, sports teams and school clubs. Students and teachers from the elementary and middle school came out to cheer on the high school students. The football team also hosted its annual bonfire.
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With six applicants for an open Gibraltar Town Board seat, the board deferred a decision to select one during its Oct. 5 meeting. The six candidates, all of whom had submitted application letters by the Sept. 28 deadline, appeared before the board and briefly stated why they wanted to serve and why they are qualified […]
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Program Revisits Deadly 1913 Storm
Join the Gibraltar Historical Association (GHA) on Oct. 20, 7:15 pm, for this season’s last Gibraltar Talks: a program on the “White Hurricane.” A storm in 1913, nicknamed the “White Hurricane,” was the deadliest and most destructive storm to hit the Great Lakes. GHA will share what led to the sinking of 12 ships and […]
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Residents Give Gibraltar School Board Members a Raise
The Gibraltar Area School Board received a pay raise from residents who attended the district’s Sept. 27 annual meeting. During the meeting – required for all Door County school districts except Sturgeon Bay – 11 community members voted yes, and five (all board members) voted against raising the board members’ pay by 10% from the […]
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Grown-up Band Kids Help Energize the Crowd
Gibraltar High welcomes adults to practice and play in pep band Traditionally, high school music booster clubs help raise funds for trips and to purchase equipment or materials that the district budget doesn’t cover, but the Gibraltar Music Boosters took their support for the music program to a new level this month. Boosters, along with […]
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Gibraltar Residents Respond to New Utility Bills
Employees at the Gibraltar town office in Fish Creek fielded numerous phone calls and in-person visits from residents inquiring about the traffic utility bills that recently arrived in their mailboxes. The new utility, created by the town board in June, treats the town’s 58 miles of road as a utility and then charges town residents […]
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Six Apply for Gibraltar Town Board Vacancy
The town has received six letters of interest from people who’d like to fill the vacancy on the Gibraltar Town Board that was created when Tim Luettgen resigned effective Sept. 30. The six applicants are Tom Birmingham Sr., Scott DeVillers, Kathaleen Diltz, Jack Moore, John Selenica and Karl Stubenvoll. The deadline for receipt of the […]
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Vacancy Opens on Gibraltar Town Board
Tim Luettgen has resigned his seat on the Gibraltar Town Board effective Sept. 30. Luettgen, who is serving his second two-year term, said he’ll be spending more than half the year in Florida, wouldn’t be able to maintain the residency requirement and does not want to spend the winter as a virtual board member. “I […]
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Vacancy Opens on Gibraltar Town Board
Deadline for candidate applicants is Sept. 28 Tim Luettgen has resigned his seat on the Gibraltar Town Board effective Sept. 30. Luettgen, who is serving his second two-year term, said he’ll be spending more than half the year in Florida and wouldn’t be able to maintain the residency requirement. He also does not want to […]
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Trauma-informed Training Precedes New School Year at Gibraltar
While other Door County school districts began the 2022-23 school year Sept. 1, Gibraltar Area School District students didn’t have their first day until after the Labor Day weekend. The district’s teachers and all employees were in school Sept. 1 and 2, however, attending “trauma-informed training,” which included a full day of training with Marci […]