Category: Community

Liberty Grove VFW Post 8337 and the TITANs are sponsoring a second annual Fall Color Ride in Northern Door. Participants will assemble at 11 am on Saturday, Sept.

Zion United Methodist Church (a country church on County F between Fish Creek and Baileys Harbor) is holding its annual Labor Day Weekend Hymn Sing Benefit on Sunday, August 31 at 6:30 pm.

Kingdom So Delicious is a three-week culinary tour of Door County starting on September 7 and running through September 25. This annual celebration of farm and food is organized by the Door County Visitor Bureau (DCVB) and the University of Wisconsin Extension Service.

Kingdom So Delicious is a three-week culinary tour of Door County starting on September 7 and running through September 25. This annual celebration of farm and food is organized by the Door County Visitor Bureau (DCVB) and the University of Wisconsin Extension Service.

Birch Creek faculty and students have gone, signaling the end of the 2008 concert season at the Birch Creek Music Performance Center, three miles east of Egg Harbor.

Don’t know much about history? The Friends of Peninsula State Park (FPSP) have a solution. Stop by Peninsula Headquarters or the Nature Center for a brand new historical sites guide (available September 1).

The Gibraltar Historical Association (GHA) will hold its Annual Meeting at 7:30 pm on Tuesday, September 9 at the Old Town Hall in Fish Creek, across from Clark Park.

What is a Kermiss? It could be described as faith, food, fun, family and friends. To older folks who live in rural, southern Door County, mention the word Kermiss and it conjures up fond memories of yesteryear.

Freshly picked produce is available at the Settlement Farmers’ Market, held each Wednesday starting at 10 am until 2 or 3 pm (sellout). The Settlement Shops are located 1 mile south of downtown Fish Creek on Highway 42.

In Wisconsin, the largest known population of Pitcher’s Thistle resides within Whitefish Bay. The true numbers of plants are unknown due to the lack of information and volunteers required to count the thistles statewide.

A coalition of Door County citizens is making an effort to help raise awareness and funds for the Greenprinting software program developed by the National Trust for Public Land (TPL), which would help provide strategic scientific data for Door County officials charged with development decisions and conservation/resource protection.

Lakefront property owners battling exposed beach, shorelines and wetlands due to low water levels of Lake Michigan and Green Bay can find land management advice to protect wildlife habitat and water quality from the Department of Natural Resources (DNR).

The Door County Environmental Council (DCEC) honored not one, but two, environmentalists of the year at their standing-room-only Annual Summer Program Wednesday evening in Baileys Harbor.

Runners get ready! Mark your calendars for the YMCA’s seventh Annual Labor Day Weekend Run on August 30. The annual 5k Run/Walk and quarter-mile children’s race has added a new event to the slate this year.

Peninsula Preschool is raffling two outdoor club level seats for the Green Bay Packers entire slate of eight regular season home games. Raffle tickets are just $25 and only 600 will be sold.

The Ridges Sanctuary in Baileys Harbor, Wisconsin’s oldest nonprofit nature preserve, honored two of its long-time members as Volunteers of the Year Sunday, Aug.

The fourth annual Door County Photo Contest entry deadline is rapidly approaching. This contest started in 2005 and has been a popular show with the photos on display at the Blue Horse Bistro & Espresso in Fish Creek from mid-September until the end of October.

Recently, Jason Wilke, Peninsula State Park’s Invasive Species Coordinator, followed up on a visitor’s report of two grounded nestlings at Blossomburg Cemetery.

HELP’s supply of personal care items is running very low and the United Way of Door County is asking everyone to do what they can to help re-build the inventory.