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  • Sturgeon Bay Breakfast Rotary Club Delivers Dictionaries to Door County Third Graders

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    Continuing a decade-old tradition, the Sturgeon Bay Breakfast Rotary Club has delivered dictionaries to every third-grade student in the county. From Washington Island to Southern Door, club members brought the books to each classroom during the past two weeks. Public and parochial schools were included for a total of more than 250 books. “Dictionaries are […]

  • Gibraltar High School Senior Holds Sock Drive for the Homeless

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    Every year, Gibraltar High School seniors pick a project to focus on for their senior projects, and this year Ava Beaudot is holding a sock drive for the homeless. All of the socks collected will go to St. John the Evangelist Homeless Shelter in Green Bay. Drop-off boxes will be around the community until Jan. […]

  • ‘Ivory Tower’ Screening at UUF Nov. 21

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    Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Door County’s next “Movies That Matter” film is Ivory Tower. It will be screened Nov. 21, 4:30 pm. Ivory Tower critically investigates higher education. The college experience provides students a supportive space to develop personally and intellectually. But as tuition skyrockets, student debt has devastating effects on students, parents, and economies […]

  • Jared Baudhuin Receives DAR Good Citizen Award

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    Jared Baudhuin, senior at Southern Door High School, has been selected by the faculty and members of his class as this year’s recipient of the DAR Good Citizen Award. Each year a senior who best exemplifies outstanding qualities of leadership, dependability, service and patriotism in his/her school, home and community is nominated for this award. […]

  • Zoey Kohler Named a Commended Student in 2018 National Merit Scholarship Program

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    Southern Door High School Principal Steve Bousley announced that Zoey Kohler has been named a Commended Student in the 2018 National Merit Scholarship Program. A Letter of Commendation from the school and National Merit Scholarship (NMSC) was presented to this scholastically talented senior. About 34,000 Commended Students throughout the nation are being recognized for their […]

  • Door Community Auditorium Announces Lecture, Film Series Lineup

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    Door Community Auditorium (DCA) will again offer its Saturday morning St. Norbert College Distinguished Lecture Series this winter. The series will feature lectures about a wide variety of topics, including the relationship between humor, health, and happiness (Jan. 20), Latino/a theologies and aesthetics of justice (Jan. 27), pre-Columbian ceramics in Peru (Feb. 10), Latinos in […]

  • All Door County Districts Below Average for State Aid

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    The Department of Instruction (DPI) released its estimated 2017-18 funding and all Door County school districts fall below the average for state aid. Schools on the peninsula have consistently received very little in state aid due to property taxes on high-value homes covering a majority of the school’s budgets. The estimates are late to arrive […]

  • Journalists Visit Sturgeon Bay to Highlight UW-Extension Family Programming in Upcoming Film

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    On Nov. 8, Sturgeon Bay hosted Emmy Award-winning journalist, Doug Shimell of Focus Media Services in Philadelphia and Stephanie Colvin-Roy of the Center for the Promotion of Social and Emotional Learning located in Camp Hill, Penn. The two will work with Sturgeon Bay schools, families and University of Wisconsin-Extension staff to highlight the success of […]

  • Peninsula Preschool Collaborates with The Ridges on Nature-Based Curriculum

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    The Ridges Sanctuary and Peninsula Preschool are thrilled to announce a new nature-based preschool collaboration for the 2017-18 school year. These two organizations have created the opportunity for the four-year-old Peninsula Preschool class to attend school at The Ridges one day per week. The classes in the fall and spring take place at the Ridges’ […]

  • Sturgeon Bay Kiwanis Club Awards iPad to Southern Door Student

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    Members of the Sturgeon Bay Kiwanis Club awarded an iPad for Autism to Zachery Hurst, a four-year-old in Southern Door School’s 4K kindergarten program. Hurst’s autism diagnosis started when his parents, John and Debbie Hurst, noticed some unusual tendencies in Zachery when he was about 18 months old. Zachery’s pediatrician was able to diagnose Autism […]

  • Final Northern Door Children’s Center Holiday Home Tour Is Nov. 24 & 25

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    The 2017 Holiday Home Tour to benefit Northern Door Children’s Center (NDCC) is Nov. 24, 4 – 8 pm, and Nov. 25, 10 am – 4 pm. There are five homes on the tour in Egg Harbor, Baileys Harbor, Ephraim, and two in Sister Bay. The Bake Shoppe will be located at Northern Door Children’s […]

  • Marine Travelift Wins Manufacturing Innovation Award for Creating STEM Course

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    Congratulations to Marine Travelift and its affiliates for creating an award-winning, hands-on, six-week STEM course for students at the Boys & Girls Club of Door County (BGCDC). Marine Travelift was awarded the 2017 Manufacturing Innovation award from the NEW Manufacturing Alliance at its sixth annual Excellence in Manufacturing & K-12 Partnerships Awards dinner, held Oct. […]

  • Sister Bay Lions Club Donates $1,000 to Northern Door Children’s Center

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    Northern Door Children’s Center (NDCC) put out a call to the community for scholarship funds. The Sister Bay Lions stepped up and donated $1,000. NDCC was also the recipient of “pass the hat” at a recent Lion’s Club meeting, adding even more to the fund. The Lions are regular donors to the Children’s Center. As […]

  • Vendors Invited to Join Sevastopol Music, Art and Theater Guild’s Arts & Craft Fair

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    The Sevastopol Music, Art and Theater (M.A.T.) Guild is organizing the third Annual Sevastopol Arts and Craft Fair to be held at Sevastopol School on Nov. 19, 9 am – 3 pm. The Guild invites the community to save the date for this wonderful shopping opportunity. Lunch concessions and a bake sale will also be […]

  • Manufacturing Days at Sturgeon Bay Industrial Park

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    Jon Hurley talks to Door County high school students about Pro Products, the business he and his family run at the Sturgeon Bay Industrial Park, during Manufacturing Days held Oct. 20 by the Door County Economic Development Corp. Photo by Len Villano.

  • Sturgeon Bay Students Named 2018 Wisconsin Ambassadors of Music

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    Sturgeon Bay High School is proud to announce that four music students have been selected to participate in the Wisconsin Ambassadors of Music 2018 European tour. Juniors Marley Gigstead and Ian Bartz and sophomores Katy Carter and DJ Lenius were recommended by music directors Heidi Hintz and Leslie Hill. With the support of their music […]

  • Arianna Fearing Awarded PEO Scholarship to Continue Early Childhood Education

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    Arianna Fearing, pictured between Suzanne Holvenstot and Jane Kusche, is the latest recipient of an educational loan offered by the PEO Sisterhood. PEO is a philanthropic educational organization that supports women’s education. This loan was facilitated by members of Chapter DF, Sturgeon Bay. Fearing is currently a junior at Lawrence University, studying for an early […]

  • Food, ‘Hotel Transylvania’ & Games at Southern Door’s Halloween Family Fun Night

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    A Halloween Family Fun Night will be held at Southern Door Schools on Oct. 31, from 5-7:30 pm and is open to all families. From 5-5:45 pm there will be games sponsored by the FFA students in the Eagle gym and food for sale by the elementary PIE group. Some of the games include: coloring […]

  • Southern Door Student Ambassadors Offer Tech Help Nov. 14

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    Do you have questions about Facebook and other social media? What about how to use your smartphone, cellphone or iPad? How about protecting your safety and privacy online? On Nov. 14, from 9:30-11 am, student tech ambassadors will be on hand in the Southern Door High School library to provide community members with one-on-one or […]

  • NWTC Innovation Center Names Manager

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    Sister Bay’s new Learning and Innovation Center (LIC) inched closer to opening with the naming of Lisa Tetzloff as manager of the new branch of Northeast Wisconsin Technical College (NWTC). The center is being created in partnership with Nicolet Bank and is expected to open in the winter of 2018. Tetzloff comes to NWTC from […]