Category: Community
Door County community news from the Peninsula Pulse. Find information about health programs, fundraisers, announcements, and more to keep you in the loop in your community.
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ADRC Brings Medicare Helpers To Northern Door
The Aging and Disability Resource Center (ADRC) has coordinated with a group of State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) counselors. This national program trains individuals to understand Medicare with the mission of helping others understand Medicare in an unbiased way. Starting in June, SHIP volunteers will help individuals enter their initial applications for Medicare. Volunteers will […]
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Door County Community Health Improvement Plan Now Available
Collaborative plan focuses on social drivers After delays caused by COVID-19 and staff changes at Door County Public Health, the latest Community Health Improvement Plan is now published and available to the community. However, much of the work outlined in the plan is already well under way. The State of Wisconsin mandates that local health […]
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by JOHN MIELKE Peninsula Pulse contributor When a massive container ship struck and demolished the Francis Scott Key Bridge near Baltimore in the early morning hours of March 26, the accident rekindled memories for many in the Door County community, memories that reached back almost 60 years. Oct. 21, 1960 was a chilly Friday by […]
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Sevastopol Asks Residents To Join Focus Groups For Superintendent Search
After meeting Monday with a hired consultant from Wisconsin Association of School Boards (WASB) assisting with the search for Sevastopol’s next superintendent, the school board asked for residents’ input. The board on Tuesday asked district residents to consider providing input in the search for a new superintendent by attending community focus group opportunities next week […]
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Youth Arts And Service Grants Available
The Door County Service Club Coalition has partnered with the Door County Community Foundation to offer two separate youth grant programs. Youth as Resources Grants provide financial support to projects in which youth use their skills, talents and abilities to serve or educate others within the community. Any charitable, educational, civic, or youth group of […]
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Sturgeon Bay Students Earn Scholarships
Mikayla LaLuzerne, Issac Starr, Conor Waterstreet and Taylor Laughlin, all seniors at Sturgeon Bay High School, have been named winners of the 2024 Ella May Stedman Technical-College Scholarship competition. LaLuzerne will be awarded $5,000, Starr and Waterstreet each will be awarded $3,000, and Laughlin will be awarded $2,000. All four students will be enrolling at […]
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Newspaper Association Hosts State Civics Games
Students from 18 teams across the state will compete at this year’s Wisconsin Civics Games state finals for an opportunity to win bragging rights and a $2,000 scholarship to a Wisconsin college or university of their choice. The event, on May 10 at the Capitol in Madison, is presented by the Wisconsin Newspaper Association (WNA) […]
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Women’s Fund Will Address Childcare Shortage With $100k Grant
The Women’s Fund of Door County announced Monday that it received a third, $100,000 grant award from the Ford Foundation. The Women’s Fund of Door County will use the funds to create long-term solutions for the peninsula’s ongoing childcare shortage. “The challenges associated with cost and availability of childcare will require unique problem-solving and collaboration […]
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Gibraltar Students Create Playground Arch
Gibraltar High class gains art, tech, welding skills through public art project Advanced technology students gained multiple skills this year while completing a civic art project at Gibraltar High School. For most of the second semester, students in artist and industrial technology teacher Nathan Hatch’s Technology and Design class worked to fabricate, plan and assemble […]
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Jan. 23, 1936 – April 21, 2024 Carol Ann Gray, 88, of Sister Bay, passed away peacefully Sunday afternoon, April 21, 2024 at Serenity Spring Senior Living at Scandia Village in Sister Bay from recent health complications. She was born Jan. 23, 1936 in Milwaukee, the daughter of Roman A. and Elenora E. (Bierbaum) Niedzwiecki. […]
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Obituary: Michael Leon Glowacki
Sept. 1, 1940 – April 22, 2024 Michael Leon Glowacki, 83 passed away, peacefully on April 22, 2024 at Cedar Crest in Janesville Wisconsin. Michael Glowacki celebrated life each day. He enjoyed business, art, theater, travel, and spending time with his family. Mike was born Sept. 1, 1940 in Thorpe, Wisconsin. He attended Madison Business […]
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May 8,1929 – March 15, 2024 Armella Rita Norton, age 94, passed away peacefully on March 15, 2024 at Serenity Spring Senior Living at Scandia Village, Sister Bay. She was born in Chicago on May 8,1929 to Casimer and Harriet (Michela) Pinczykowski. Her family name was later changed to Pine. Armella was baptized at and […]
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Obituary: Lawrence Earl Gray, Jr.
May 7, 1938 – April 17, 2024 Lawrence Earl “Mike” Gray, Jr., 85 years old of Sturgeon Bay WI, died on Wednesday, April 17, 2024, surrounded by family at Door County Medial Center. Mike was born on May 7, 1938 in Chicago to Lawrence Earl Gray, Sr. and Katherine Gray. He grew up in Fox […]
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Dec. 13, 1947 – April 19, 2024 Beverly T. Ellingson, 76, died on April 19, 2024, after a valiant battle with cancer. She was born in Marinette, Wisconsin on Dec. 13, 1947, to Frank and Michalina Pfeiffer. Bev graduated from Crivitz High School in 1966 and Milwaukee Area Technical College in 1968. Bev married Ron […]
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Dec. 17, 1920 – April 9, 2024 Evelyn Ann (Wilke) Ploor, 103 of Sturgeon Bay, died late Tuesday evening, April 9, 2024. Evelyn was born Dec. 17, 1920 in the Town of Forestville to August and Lydia (Diefenbach) Wilke. They moved to the Town of Sevastopol where she started school and graduated in the class […]
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Obituary: Genevieve Jeannet Richard
Dec. 30, 1927 – April 18, 2024 Genevieve “Gen” Jeannet Richard, 96, of Sturgeon Bay, formerly of the Town of Egg Harbor, died early Thursday morning, April 18, 2024 at Bayview Senior Living in Sturgeon Bay. She was born in Gladstone, Michigan on the Dec. 30, 1927 to Jesse James and Delia Mary (LaPalm) Cartwright. […]
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Geology makes county’s groundwater more vulnerable Greg Coulthurst keeps a video on his phone to show just how susceptible Door County’s groundwater is to contamination. Not far from his home southwest of Sturgeon Bay, there’s a large sinkhole as well as a couple of creeks and ditches where water vanishes into the bedrock. Two hours […]
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County Digs Deep for Drinking-water Safety
Groundwater. It’s out of sight and probably out of mind for a good number of Door County’s residents and visitors. A thin layer of soil covering fractured, quickly-draining rock makes most of the peninsula susceptible to groundwater contamination. In a place like Door County, where residents and visitors rely upon 8,000 private wells for all […]
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Common contaminants and pollutants Something’s in the water. Actually, many things are, and not all of them should be. Here are some of the most common contaminants in Wisconsin’s surface water and groundwater, as well as where they come from and why they’re cause for concern, according to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR). […]
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Some additional reports related to Door County water include the following: https://www.co.door.wi.gov/DocumentCenter/View/568/Surface-Water-Inventory-PDF Surface Water Inventory of Door County, 2000. The Door County Soil and Water Conservation Department is in the process of updating this report, which could take about five years. “Part of this purpose is as communities plan for the future they can use […]