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Category: Perspectives

  • By the Numbers

    $100 billion – Estimated amount the federal government gives in tax breaks and subsidies each year to encourage home ownership

  • Notes from the Grove

    Welcome to the Notes from the Grove, providing Liberty Grove residents and visitors tid bits of information about goings on in town government.

  • An Outlook

    Another Fall Festival arrives in Sister Bay this weekend, and I had hoped that this one would come and go without my ever mentioning the “dogs at festivals” subject. Unfortunately, the arrival of the mail on Saturday made this scenario impossible.

  • Door County Named as Top Ten Fall Destination

    • Door County has recently been named in TripAdvisor’s “Top 10 Fall Foliage Destinations” list. TripAdvisor, one of the world’s largest travel website, compiled the list through a user survey of more than 2,300 travelers.

  • Congratulations to Nikki Slaets!

    There is a trip you must take, ‘cross the causeway on Kangaroo Lake, at Coyote Roadhouse you should stop, at an eatery that’s hard to top. If you get a server whose name is Nikki, she’ll wait on you quite quickly.

  • Article posted Thursday, October 7, 2010 1:08pm

    Leo (July 23 – August 22): There will never be a better day than tomorrow as the sun and moon are in harmonic discord. This is your chance to appear at “American Idol” auditions with your snare drums.

  • Article posted Thursday, October 7, 2010 1:04pm

    Dear Mary Pat, I got a friend request on Facebook from an old classmate that I haven’t spoken to for over 14 years. The last time we spoke, she accused me of doing something that I didn’t do.

  • Full Moon

    I’m quick to thank my lucky stars for being born (Aug. 5, 1929) and raised in a small town (Kewaunee, WI) where bright city lights hardly existed and where we could enjoy and be held in awe at the brilliant, dark, nighttime skies.

  • Snippets From Science

    • Do women on boards and committees make for better decision-making? A number of studies, as well as anecdotal evidence, indicate they do.

  • By the Numbers

      250   Number of civilians working under U.S. contracts that died in war zones between January and June of 2010   235   Number of U.S. soldiers who died in war zones in the same period   5,531   Total number of troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan between 2001 and June 2010   […]

  • Notes from the Grove

    Welcome to the Notes from the Grove, providing Liberty Grove residents and visitors tid bits of information about goings on in town government. • The remodeling of the Ellison Bay Post Office is well underway.

  • An Outlook

    This past week I was thinking about how frivolous football can seem at this time of year when the baseball season is still winding down. Unless you are a Bears fan, in which case you are still relishing Monday night’s Bears’ victory over the rival Green Bay Packers.

  • Chelsea Antiques and Blue Willow Shop of Sister Bay Take Up New Owners

    • After 30 successful years, Chelsea Antiques and Blue Willow Shop have new owners who plan to continue the stores’ traditions of providing old and new treasures with personal service.

  • The Majestic Canada Goose

    A waterfowl, probably the most widely distributed and well-known of all in North America, enjoyed by many, despised by others, a strong bird that demands respect, is beginning its usual fall increase in numbers in Door County, the Canada Goose.

  • In Praise of “Large Format” Bottles

    There is a statistic out there in the wine world that states that over 90 percent of the wine bought today will be consumed within six months of the purchase.

  • Article posted Thursday, September 30, 2010 11:50am

    Who was the longest-tenured assemblyman in Wisconsin’s 1st Assembly District?

  • Congratulations to Ann Lynaugh!

    There once was a baker from the Bay of Sister, way down at Base Camp, mister, she hocks coffee and cakes, for your mid-morning shakes, with an entire French legion to assist her.

  • Article posted Thursday, September 30, 2010 11:45am

    Leo (July 23 – August 22): You will soon learn that your invention of a radio that plays only Lawrence Welk music has been granted a U.S. patent. Continue to be humble in the face of the fame that will follow.

  • A Day at Rock Island State Park

    How fortunate we are living so close to Rock Island State Park, a unique recreational park in many ways. It surely is beyond the so-called “tension zone,” where hiking ranks above cars and bicycles which are not allowed.

  • Wine Closures with Bryan Bradley of the Mission Grille

    For the last three centuries or so, wine bottles have been traditionally sealed with cork stoppers to prevent oxygen from reacting with the wine. As you may know, natural cork is processed from the bark of the cork tree, which is a type of oak.