Area: Kewaunee
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Dirty Water: Kewaunee Group Monitoring Impaired Rivers
Each month for the past three years, several residents of Kewaunee County drive a 165-mile route at their own expense to collect water samples from the mouth and source of three rivers – Ahnapee, Kewaunee and East Twin. They collect six samples, note the date and conditions through photographs and deliver the samples to a […]
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The Ahnapee Menagerie: A Shack-Chic Shanty
In the month of February some years ago, I placed the following ad in the Kewaunee County Star – “WANTED: Small farm outbuilding to move to my property.” I had purchased this three-acre parcel just north of Algoma in the late 1980s. Husband Jim and I had been staying in an older mobile home that […]
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The Advocates: Kewaunee CARES Fights for Air, Water Quality
Group has energized a community to fight for groundwater security, and tighter regulation of CAFOs.
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9th Sustainability Issues Asks: How Safe Is Our Groundwater?
Few of us think twice about the water coming from our faucets, but in our 9th Sustainability Issue, we wonder if we should.
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When people in Door County want to know more about what’s growing in the woods behind their home or about the birds that chirp so early in the morning, they don’t always turn to a book.
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Paul Sowinski recalls seeing The Beatles when he was four or five on The Ed Sullivan Show in his childhood home in Wausau and thinking: “Screaming women – that’s what I want.” Though “screaming women” is not the profile of most Door County live music crowds, Sowinski has made a name for himself and gathered […]
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CAFO Expansion in Kewaunee Raises Concerns
Ericka Routhieaux thinks of her family as canaries trapped in a coal mine. Twenty years ago when they moved into a small, blue house in the town of Lincoln, the surrounding landscape was dotted with farms.
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The Rise and Fall of the Ahnapee & Western Railway
For most people today, the initials A&W bring to mind a frosty mug of root beer, but for nearly a century folks in northeast Wisconsin knew it as shorthand for the Ahnapee & Western Railway. Mark Mathu grew up in New Franken, Wisconsin, about 35 miles south of Sturgeon Bay in Brown County, where the […]