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Aug. 28 – Sep. 4

• Bay Shipbuilding Company, a subsidiary of Fincantieri Marine Group LLC, in Sturgeon Bay will lay off 405 employees, beginning in October. The company filed a mass layoff notice with the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development Aug. 25.

 

 

If business conditions improve, layoffs to the extent indicated in the filing may not be necessary, company management said.

 

 

Pat O’Hern, Vice President and General Manager, said earlier this year that the economic downturn was likely to have an impact on employment before the year was out. With the economy slowed, companies were shipping less product, lessening the need for ships and ship repair.

 

 

The company expects to recall many of the workers if economic conditions improve.

 

 

Door County Administrator Mike Serpe said the county’s job services department and food stamp program will likely feel an impact, as will other departments.

 

 

“It’s going to have an impact on all of our social services programs,” Serpe said. “It’s going to be a long, dark period for a lot of people.”

 

 

Serpe said there will likely be some initial assistance coming from the state.

 

 

• Employees of Al Johnson‘s restaurant celebrated 60 years of pancake flipping at Sister Bay’s Waterfront Park Aug. 22. Over 300 past and present employees showed up to celebrate the restaurant that became an icon and the man who built it.

 

 

• Door County Supervisor Will Jeanquart resigned. Jeanquart represented Sturgeon Bay city wards 13 and 14 and joined the Board of Supervisors in 2000. To apply for the open position send a letter of interest or contact county Administrator Michael Serpe at 920.746.2552, County Clerk Jill Lau at 920.746.2200, or board Chairman Leo Zipperer at 920.743.6355. Jeanquart’s term expires in April of next year.

 

 

• The DNR has quarantined Brown County firewood in an effort to prevent the spread of the Emerald Ash Borer. Citizens cannot take ash logs, firewood, or ash nursery stock out of Brown County.

 

 

• Gibraltar schools installed solar panels on the roof of the school Aug. 21 as part of the WPS SolarWise for Schools program. The panels will provide enough electricity to power three classrooms.