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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Once Upon Our Peninsula: News from this week’s past, Jan. 16-20
All items are from the Door County Library’s newspaper archives, and they appear in the same form as they were first published, including misspellings and grammatical errors. The Expositor, Jan. 16, 1874 Why don’t some of the enterprising farmers in this county go into the dairy business? It is not the thing to be […]
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Local Food Truck Featured on “Discover Wisconsin”
Wisconsin’s growing food truck scene is taking center stage on the popular TV show, Discover Wisconsin. The nation’s longest-running tourism TV show and its hosts, Mariah Haberman and Eric Paulsen, highlight seven food carts and trucks across the state of Wisconsin in “Curbside Eats.” The program was produced in partnership with the Wisconsin Milk Marketing […]
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All Invited to Parent Night at Southern Door Auditorium
The Southern Door County School District invites parents and community members to attend a Love and Logic Parent Night on Feb. 16, 6-8 pm, at Southern Door Auditorium. Jim Clark, a trained Love and Logic presenter and Principal at Notre Dame of De Pere, will present strategies to help parents put an end to arguing, […]
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Gibraltar DECA Students Compete at Career Development Conference
Fifteen Gibraltar High School business students competed at the Northeast Wisconsin District DECA Career Development Conference on Jan. 14 at Bayport High School. Ten students earned 26 awards in seven different career concentrations. Each competitor took a 100-question career specific exam and participated in two role play scenarios with judges from throughout NE Wisconsin. Freshman […]
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Andrew and Matthew Memorial Fund Donates to We Are HOPE, Inc.
We Are HOPE, Inc. is pleased to announce a generous gift to support the We Are HOPE, Inc. Annual Appeal from Mrs. Jan Welborn, in honor of her late husband and son, Andrew and Mathew Welborn. The Andrew and Mathew Memorial Fund is making a sizable donation in the amount of $10,000 to help support […]
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2017 Golden Heart Awards Seek Nominees
The Volunteer Center of Door County is seeking nominations for the 2017 Golden Heart Awards. There are five categories for the awards: Adult; Volunteer Group; Environmental Stewardship; Youth (includes scholarship); and Lifetime of Service. All nominees will be recognized, and winners will be announced at the “feel-good event of the year,” the Golden Heart Volunteer […]
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Fire Department Offers AED & CPR Classes
The Sister Bay & Liberty Grove Fire Department is partnering with the American Safety & Health Institute to offer a class to educate the community in the proper method of using an AED and performing CPR. The four-hour class will teach infant, child and adult CPR and offers a two-year certification. The class will be […]
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United Way Considers 2016 Campaign a Success
With all proceeds and pledges from the United Way of Door County 2016 campaign counted, the final tally is $477,784.63. The total represents a $33,237.26 increase over 2015 and is within $7,000 of the highest ever raised by a United Way of Door County annual campaign. “We are so grateful to the over 1,000 people […]
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Boys & Girls Club Awarded Grant for Academic Programming
The Door County Community Foundation has awarded Boys and Girls Club of Door County a Sustainability Grant from the Children and Youth Fund, the John and Nell Herlache Community Impact Fund, the Ruth & Hartley Barker Memorial Fund, and the Callsen Family Fund. This grant will be used to purchase supplies to assist the Boys […]
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The Door County Humane Society (DCHS) cattery staff would like to introduce Hocus. This great 5-year-old feline is a very handsome boy with a jet black coat and stunning yellow eyes. Hocus came to DCHS as a stray on Oct. 31, 2016, hence his being named after the Halloween movie Hocus Pocus. His personality can […]
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Betty Walrabenstein, 93, of Sister Bay, died peacefully on January 16, 2017 in Sturgeon Bay. She was born in 1923 in Waukesha to Frederick and Josephine Steffen. She graduated from Waukesha High School and was a secretary at Universal Milking Machines Company until she married Arthur Walrabenstein in 1947. They had two daughters, Donna and Susan. […]
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Helen Ann Frings, 88, of Jacksonport, died Friday, January 13, 2017, in De Pere. She was born in Kansas City, MO, on December 3, 1928, the daughter of the late William and Irene (Campbell) Johnson. Following her graduation from Holy Angels (DSHA) High School in Milwaukee, Helen received a BA in Education from St. Mary’s […]
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Brenda Clarke Meigs, 96, of Sturgeon Bay, died peacefully, Friday morning, January 13, 2017 at her home. She was born July 29, 1920 in Wimbledon, England, the daughter of the late Harold and Beatrice (Hitchcock) Clarke. When the war broke out, Brenda returned from school in Lauzanne, Switzerland, to join the Women’s Royal Air Force, […]
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Dan Janisse died peacefully in Baileys Harbor, Wisconsin on Jan. 11 at the age of 60. Dan is survived by his three sons, Chris, Alex and Matt Janisse, all of Sister Bay and his former wife Janet Janisse, Sister Bay. He is further survived by his brothers Jim (Pam), Cedarburg, WI and Steve, Eagle River, WI, sisters […]
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Lester A. Volkmann, age 85, of Egg Harbor died on January 10, 2017 at his home. He was born on July 24, 1931, in Egg Harbor to Fredrick and Mildred (Martens) Volkmann. He married Marion Utter on February 10, 1951, in Egg Harbor. He lived on the family farm all of his life. He was […]
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Jim Roberts, 88, of St. Simons Island, GA, died Sunday, January 8, 2017 following a very brief illness. He and his wife, Joanne, who preceded him in death in May 2014, were long-time St. Simons residents, most recently residing at Marsh’s Edge. They moved to the island after completing professional careers in the Chicago, IL, area. […]
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Marvin Henry Staver, our Bapa, joined our Nana, Betty Lou Anita, on January 7, 2017. After 69 years of marriage, ten and half months apart were far too long for him, and he was ready. A proud multi-generational small dairy farmer and skilled carpenter, Bapa spent 90 of his 91 years living in the Sister […]
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Anniversary: Bill and Judy Gregory
Local Door County residents Bill and Judy Gregory will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary this Saturday, Jan. 21, 2016. The couple met at a high school St. Patrick’s Day dance in the basement of St. Priscilla Church in Chicago, in March of 1963. Bill was just 16 and Judy was just 14 years old. They […]
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Door County Reads “Empire Falls”
The title Empire Falls might lead some readers to expect a story about the demise of a big city crime syndicate but Richard Russo’s novel, the one about a small mill town in Maine that has fallen on hard times, is anything but noir fiction. Empire Falls was chosen as this year’s Door County Reads […]
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Southern Door Student Receives $1,000 Wisconsin FFA Foundation Grant
Jared Baudhuin, Southern Door senior and FFA member, received a $1,000 Dairy Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE) grant from the Wisconsin FFA Foundation. He was one of 37 Wisconsin FFA members from 27 different chapters chosen as a grant recipient. Successful candidates were chosen based on the level and scope of their SAE in accordance with […]