Area: Southern Door
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Southern Door Board Selects 6 Superintendent Candidates
Community Involved in Survey, Interviews The Southern Door County School Board reviewed 20 application packets and selected six candidates to interview in its search for a superintendent. Also during its Jan. 31 retreat, the board compiled a list of names for two, 13-member interview panels to meet with three candidates starting Feb. 5, and three […]
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Sing, Door County Contestants Selected
The contestants who will compete in Southern Door Auditorium’s SING, Door County!, a singing competition featuring high school juniors and seniors from throughout the county, have been selected via in-person auditions and audition videos. The lineup will include Maryann Alrand, Bea Dramm, Justin Gutierrez, Ashlynn Keel, Merrick Mann, Bekka Porter and Noah Rass. During the […]
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Jackson Accepted To West Point
Thomas Jackson, son of Mary and Christopher Jackson, was nominated and has accepted an offer to attend the United States Military Academy at West Point beginning in the fall of 2024, Southern Door High School announced. To achieve a lifelong goal to go to West Point, Jackson took a rigorous course load, including a number […]
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Students Suggest Names For New Building
Upon request from school board president Penny Price, Southern Door School District students came up with suggestions for naming the new building under construction behind the high school. Student representative to the board Ben Grota said those suggestions include SD Community Center, Eagle Fitness Facility, Talon Fitness Center, The Eagles Nest, Empowering Eagle, Southern Door […]
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Southern Door School District Floating Idea of Giving 17 Fridays Off
New calendar being designed for savings, teacher-attraction A creatively crafted school calendar could broaden opportunities for some students and help the Southern Door School District attract and retain teachers, board members were told this month. After weeks of discussion by teachers and staff and a preliminary survey of high school students, staff and additional stakeholders, […]
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“Two And A Half Belgians” At Southern Door Community Auditorium
Green Bay theater company Let Me Be Frank Productions marked 25 years of entertainment in 2023. To celebrate, they will revive one of their most successful shows, Two and a Half Belgians, with a performance at the Southern Door Community Auditorium on Feb. 18, 3 pm. Two and a Half Belgians takes place at Dyckesville’s […]
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The Unsilencing of Yana Zenefski
Teens Making a Difference Yana Zenefski is a board member for the Door County Democrats and her youthful presence on a political board seemed a good reason to reach out to the 17-year-old senior at Southern Door High School. I assumed before our discussion that her stint with the Door Dems was the start of […]
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Family Movie Night At Southern Door Community Auditorium
The family-friendly movie, Lyle, Lyle Crocodile, will be shown at the Southern Door Community Auditorium, Jan. 6 at 6 pm. In the movie, a reptile shares a home with a boy named Josh and his family. In addition to its humor and slapstick comedy, the film highlights important lessons around compassion, courage, teamwork, family and […]
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Daoust Climbs to Top of County Scoring Mountain
Door County has a new career scoring leader in boys basketball. On Tuesday, Southern Door junior guard Drew Daoust broke the previous record of 1,566 set more than 24 years ago by 1999 Southern Door High School graduate Nathan Vogel. Daoust’s 29 points also led the Eagles to a 73-63 Packerland Conference home victory over […]
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Southern Door Fire Department Approves Budget
The Southern Door Fire Department (SDFD) approved its first budget without the Town of Nasewaupee’s financial support. The $249,815.24 budget for 2024 – passed Sept. 27 by the department’s fire board – will be footed entirely by the Village of Forestville and the towns of Forestville and Clay Banks. Nasewaupee split off from the department […]
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DENN has added a new attraction in addition to their corn maze, an outdoor escape room. There are six rooms to try and break out of. Guests first search for the entrance then gain access by solving a riddle to open the gate. There they dig through plants, dirt and rocks trying to find clues […]
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Nasewaupee Fire Department Starts Sept. 28
At 12:01 am on Sept. 28, a new fire department will officially begin in southern Door County when the Town of Nasewaupee splits from the other three municipalities in the Southern Door Fire Department (SDFD). Nasewaupee Fire Rescue (NFR) chief Jacob Schartner informed the town’s Fire Committee on Sept. 14 that the department’s creation received […]
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Southern Door Board Urged to Keep Greenhouse Project
A former Southern Door School board member and FFA supporter on Monday urged the school board not to ignore a voter-approved greenhouse project. The district decided last month to temporarily drop the greenhouse and a bus-mechanics garage from a $14.9 million list of capital-improvement projects approved by voters. Pamela Parks, who served on the school […]
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Wisconsin DSPS Distributes Nearly $23,000 to SDFD
Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services (DSPS) secretary-designee Dan Hereth presented a ceremonial check Sept. 6 for nearly $23,000 to Southern Door Fire Department (SDFD) Chief Rich Olson at the Forestville station. “The funding is a great help to our department,” Olson said while standing next to a table that displayed examples of the […]
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Meet Juniper, a 7-year-old cat who’s available for adoption at the Wisconsin Humane Society (WHS) Door County Campus. He’s a friendly tabby, weighs 14 pounds and loves to lounge. Like all cats at WHS, Juniper (wihumane.org/adopt/animal?id=53740521) is neutered, vaccinated and microchipped, and he goes home with a starter bag of food and a certificate for […]
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Southern Door Superintendent’s Resignation Remains a Mystery
An open-records request for documents pertaining to the leave and eventual resignation of former Southern Door superintendent Chris Peterson has yielded no specifics as to why his tenure ended so abruptly. The district officially severed its relationship with Peterson effective June 30 and brought interim superintendent Tony Klaubauf on board Aug. 7. The district first […]
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Southern Door cuts back building work
Southern Door School board on Monday, Aug. 7 at least temporarily eliminated a greenhouse and bus-repair garage from its capital-improvements list that voters approved last November. A press release from the board indicated that increased estimated costs in some of the Phase 1 projects, as well as the need to replace the aging, large mound […]
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Southern Door Alumnus Tapped for Interim Superintendent Post
The search for an interim superintendent after a resignation this spring led the Southern Door County School Board to select a 1976 Southern Door graduate for the role. Tony Klaubauf – who served for 11 years as the Denmark School District’s superintendent and retired from that post in 2018 – will fill the role until […]
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Picnic Supports Southern Door Fire Department
The Southern Door Firefighter Picnic & Parade is set for July 29 in downtown Forestville, where festivities will start with the 11 am parade. Lineup begins at 10:30 am on Mill Road. After the parade, head to a picnic featuring burgers, brats, booyah, beer and more at the fire station, 110 E. Main St. Enjoy […]
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Since the start of the Hal Prize, the Peninsula Pulse’s creative-writing and photography contest, there has always been some type of screening process for submissions. Initially, members of the Pulse staff – and representatives of Write On, Door County when the organization joined as a partner – would whittle down the submissions to a manageable number for […]