In this issue
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Twenty Years with a ‘Pulse’: Part I
How many people can say their job is to create something out of nothing? Who would even want that job, because what if your creation was something that no one wanted? But creating something out of nothing is the very essence of a newspaper. Each day or week — depending on the publication schedule — […]
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A Brief History of Door County Newspapers
Three years after Wisconsin entered the union as the 30th state in 1848, the peninsula was recognized as Door County and communities started springing up. It took another full decade before one of the first signs of progress and growth of a newly settled territory in the United States came in the form of a […]
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Julie’s Park Café and Motel Expansion Adds Second Floor, Eight Rooms to 60-Year-Old Building
Julie’s Park Café and Motel has grown in so many respects this summer, as owners Sande and Shane Solomon enter their seventh season. Let us count the ways. It began in May 2015 when they started the process of obtaining the seven variances needed to rebuild the motel. Work started in November. Although the original […]
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Unearthing Artifacts: Evidence of Door County’s Earliest Settlers
Victoria Dirst wanted to grow up to be an archaeologist, and she did — spending 21 years with the Department of Natural Resources. Her job was to investigate sites where building was proposed to make sure construction wouldn’t cover any archaeological treasures. “I could pretty much tell from looking at a site if there […]
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Editor’s Note: A Finger on the “Pulse”
As a longtime toiler in the inky fields of newspapering — almost my entire adult life — I’ve watched a corporation gobble up a once bright and shining example of a daily newspaper and spit it out in shreds. I’ve seen the aforementioned corporation swallow as many newspapers as it could and turn them into […]