Category: Features
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Moving History: David DeVooght relocates Little Sister Resort
The first dim light of morning is only beginning to stretch over the Sister Bay water tower March 8, but David DeVooght and his 18-person crew have already been on-site for an hour, preparing the first of four buildings they would move that day. Workers from Wisconsin Public Service are beginning the task of disconnecting […]
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United Way Raises Bar Following Record Fundraising Year
United Way of Door County has raised the bar on its current fundraising campaign to accommodate a record year of giving in 2020. The nonprofit organization has set a 2021 campaign goal of $775,000 and kicked off the campaign Aug. 18 at MAX in Baileys Harbor, with about 75 people in attendance. “Knowing it’s a […]
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Building a Community: Door Karma Farms
We’re in Chris Schuh’s truck, driving on the long, gravel road that heads east from Door Karma Farms’ storefront on Highway 57 in Baileys Harbor. Schuh, a co-owner of Door Karma, wants to show me more of the farm, but the land we pass doesn’t look like traditional farmland. He drives past a large swath […]
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What could have been more appropriate than celebrating an organization’s 20th birthday in 2020? The Liberty Grove Historical Society (LGHS) had big plans to do that last year until 2020 turned out to be uncooperative. Undeterred, society members carried on and “made do,” as their ancestors would have expected. In fact, they not only carried […]
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Christening Day Arrives for New Lighthouse Tower
Following maritime custom, a selected volunteer announced the christening of the new Door County Maritime Museum (DCMM) Jim Kress Maritime Lighthouse Tower by smashing a bottle of champagne against the wall where the tower’s first stone was laid. The May 22 christening event drew a large crowd to the parking lot at the base of […]
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Tractor Drenches Three with Ice Water for Special Olympics
Three people – two of them wearing grass skirts, the third wearing an “Unbearable” T-shirt and a polar bear hat – sat in chairs in the parking lot of Nicolet Bank’s Fourth Avenue branch in Sturgeon Bay. Poised above their heads was a tractor bucket filled with icy water. It was a balmy 20 F with […]