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  • Staying on Pace: Door County Half Marathon

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    Runners don’t have to go it alone at the Door County Half Marathon. Krista Eliot, wife of founder David Eliot, has been leading the pace team since 2013, helping guide runners to a successful finish.  Eliot, a veteran of 40 marathons and both the New Balance and Nike pace teams, says her goal is simple.  […]

  • Neighbor to Neighbor Bestows Volunteer Award

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    Neighbor to Neighbor celebrated its achievements during its annual meeting June 28, including presenting Jim Stiefvater with its Medical Equipment Volunteer Star Award for his extraordinary service and dedication to the medical-equipment loan program. Learn about Neighbor to Neighbor’s services – or volunteer – by calling 920.743.7800.

  • Local Steel Fitter Does More Than Just Welding

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    Shipyard employees sometimes have more talents than they can show in the workplace, but steel fitter Aaron Delorit made a big reveal of his artistic abilities this spring and summer.  It began on a day off from helping to build ships such as the M/V Mark S. Barker, when he had watched a prolific local […]

  • Harbor Fish Market & Grille Changes Hands

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    The Harbor Fish Market & Grille in Baileys Harbor, situated on the shore of the Lake Michigan side, boasts expansive indoor and outdoor dining with coveted views. Inside, customers walk on the original hardwood floors that were installed when the building was constructed in 1908 and belly up to the original bar that fronts Highway […]

  • The Bird Whisperer: Rob Hults

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    You may know the “birdman” of Baileys Harbor, but do you know the one in Jacksonport? Jacksonport has become known for birds, but not the kind that Albert Zahn carved out of wood at Birds Park in the nearby Bird City of Baileys Harbor.  Past the winding gravel entrance off County Road I, the calls […]

  • Sending Kids to Sea

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    Thanks from the Ephraim Yacht Club and the Rob Moore family Years ago, I thought of Door County as a location on the map. As the years passed, my thoughts morphed into thinking of Door County as a vacation destination. Living here, I have learned that Door County is a way of life, and that […]

  • Letting the Light In

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    Container home mixes modern and traditional While the south light is great for living, the north light is good for making artwork,” Cathy Hoke explained as she showed me around her home.  That Hoke designed her home to get light from opposing directions is emblematic of the project as a whole. The house is a […]

  • A Life of Building: John Sawyer is still helping youth and businesses

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    Entrepreneurs talk about “giving back” to the community. But John Sawyer doesn’t need to talk: He’s all action.  Sawyer has spent most of his days building homes, launching businesses and helping others to attain their dreams, but he’s also made time to teach sports to children, coach high schoolers and develop youth programs.  The Egg […]

  • Herlaches Named Philanthropists of the Year

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    Tom and Jill Herlache were honored June 21 as the 2022 Philanthropists of the Year during the Door County Community Foundation’s Celebration of Giving ceremony. Tom Herlache, former CEO of Baylake Bank, was one of the founders – in 1999 – of the very organization that honored him and his wife on Tuesday.  “It’s an inspiration to […]

  • ‘We All Stepped Up’ – and Now, Public Health Director Sue Powers Steps out

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    How people intend to spend their retirement years is a personal thing, and by the time you read this, Sue Powers will be on her way to doing her version of it. Powers was the Door County Public Health officer/manager during an unprecedented time in public health. Her category of professionals was accustomed to going […]

  • A Journey to Acceptance: Owen Alabado and Northern Door Pride

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    As a young adult, Owen Alabado despised being gay. A first-generation U.S. citizen of Filipino descent, he wanted to be “normal” and accepted and have a family one day. But in 1990s Janesville, Wisconsin, there were few resources for him and little representation of homosexuals in his community or mainstream culture, much less celebrations centered […]

  • Guest Column: Never Forgotten Honor Flight Was the ‘Trip of a Lifetime’

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    And I was just there to welcome Russ by JOHN MIELKE, Special to the Peninsula Pulse It had been more than two years since my cousin Russ Schroeder, who now lives near Park Falls, Wisconsin, told me he would be part of a Never Forgotten Honor Flight. To be perfectly honest, I had forgotten. The […]

  • In Memoriam: Artist Charles “Chick” Peterson

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    April 5, 1927 – June 2, 2022A complete obituary is available at doorcountypulse.com/obituary-charles-lloyd-peterson. To celebrate Charles “Chick” L. Peterson’s 90th birthday in 2017, the Miller Art Museum in Sturgeon Bay mounted a retrospective exhibition of the Ephraim artist’s work: 40 paintings and sculptures covering more than seven decades. Peterson and Deborah Rosenthal, the museum’s curator […]

  • Romance at Anderson Dock

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    Local photographer Tad Dukehart stumbled upon this sweet, sunset proposal at Anderson Dock in Ephraim. (From left) Jake Kobiske and Carlie Rademacher of Cottage Grove, Wisconsin, met as freshmen at UW-Platteville. Kobiske planned the trip hoping for good weather and a perfect evening in Ephraim. He got his wish – and she said yes! Read […]

  • A Journey of Land and Sea: Gibraltar Graduate Ryan Fochs

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    During his 30 years on the planet, Ryan Fochs has covered a great deal of it. He has set foot in dozens of countries on six continents in his quest to investigate the world on land and at sea. The 2009 Gibraltar High School alumnus also graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh with a triple […]

  • Four Generations of Gibraltar Grads

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    Four generations of Gibraltar High School grads gathered in front of the school recently for this photo. (From left) April Moeller, Class of 1999; with her son, Kevin Krauel, Class of 2022; grandmother and great grandmother, Ellen Kiehnau, Class of 1951; Jade Toneys, Class of 2022; with her mother, Connie Toneys, Class of 1996; with […]

  • Sevastopol Alumna Named Fulbright Scholar

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    Stacie Haen-Darden, an alumna of Sevastopol High School and a Justice Studies adjunct faculty member at College of DuPage, has earned a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to teach juvenile justice rehabilitation, criminology and educational practices in Turkey during the fall semester of the 2022-23 academic year. As a Fulbright Scholar, the Naperville resident will […]

  • Healthy Made Easy: Guilt-free eating at Get Real Cafe

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    Sunshine streams through the high windows of Sturgeon Bay’s Get Real Cafe, illuminating the colorful dishes coming from the open kitchen: a quinoa salad topped with red onions and avocado, an Italian sandwich with sun-dried tomatoes and artichokes, a bowl of pork-curry vegetable soup with garbanzo beans and mushrooms bobbing on the surface. The place […]

  • Boomerang: Cam Fuller’s athletics journey brings him back to northeastern Wisconsin

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    Cam Fuller’s athletics journey has taken him from the golf greens of Door County, to courtside at the 2021 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, to now overseeing nearly 600 student-athletes and coaches at St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin.  Fuller – a 2008 graduate of Sevastopol school and three-time Packerland Conference Player of the Year […]

  • Much More than a Country Doctor: Horace Franklin Eames

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    Doc Eames is still a familiar name in some parts of Door County, even though he died nearly 85 years ago. But Horace Franklin Eames was not always a doctor. Born on May 30, 1859, in Masham, Québec, he moved at age 17 with his parents, William and Asenath, to a farm in Clay Banks, […]