Category: Features
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Local Food Movement Brings Young Folks Back to the Farm
Meg Goettleman apologizes as she breaks away from our conversation. A customer waves as she walks down the small hill behind Goettleman’s home, and now Meg has gone to greet her. She shares a big laugh with Meg, then a hug, as she approaches the small barn, inside of which the week’s treasure awaits – […]
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When Amy Kohnle became the executive director of United Way of Door County in 1999, the organization’s budget was $297,000. In 2012, the budget of $457,000 funded 38 programs offered by 23 non-profit agencies.
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Local Resident Helps Out in Aftermath of Sandy
At some point in your life, you decide if you’re going to just take up space or do something good for the world. Rudy Senarighi chose to do something good.
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Proposed State Park Hunting Area Maps
The Sporting Heritage Bill, Wisconsin Act 168, opened hunting, fishing and trapping for all seasons in state parks starting in 2013.
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When Southern Door Schools bus driver Ted Chaudoir decided to clean out the books in his daughter’s old bedroom, he had no idea what kind of impact it would have.
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Four Decades Later National Geographic Photographer Reshoots Door County
As we stand inside the Potter’s Wheel in Fish Creek, photographer Don Emmerich is working hard to recreate a picture from his first published National Geographic assignment, the March 1969 cover story that many credit with making the Door Peninsula into the destination it is today.
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Bo Johnson: He Stole Victory From Defeat
Bo Johnson, the 13-year-old boy whose fight with leukemia inspired his community and whose message of kindness touched people across the state and beyond, died early this morning.
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The Healing Project – Body, Spirit & Mind
When Susan* walked away from her last radiation treatment, she was confronted with a new question. How do you live after cancer?
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Door County still needs volunteer firefighters
When many people first think of firefighters they probably think of those hunky guys from movies and calendars: 20-something men with chiseled jawlines and abs a quarter could be bounced off of.
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Mary Ann Johnson, Historian Extraordinaire
In 1992, the Door County Historical Society named Mary Ann Johnson Historian of the Year and presented her an engraved plaque and a lovely hand-lettered certificate.
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Author’s Note: Telling Bo’s Story
In today’s Pulse you’ll find the story of Bo Johnson’s battle against leukemia, one for which he somehow summons more courage every day. On Aug. 27, his doctor’s told him there was nothing more they could do for him, and Bo decided to come home.
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Shortly after Bo was diagnosed with AML, he and Annika began a journal on Caring Bridge and a Facebook Page, GO BO! to keep people updated on his progress.
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Bo Johnson: Teaching Us How to Live
On August 27, Bo Johnson’s doctors told him there was nothing more they could do for him. Bo decided to come home, where there was a lot more he could do for us.
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I’m not afraid of needles. Still, when I lay back on the table and saw the fleet of sharp shiny tools, I wasn’t thrilled. Whoever discovered that pushing needles into his body was therapeutic must have been nuts. Nuts, but right. So began my first acupuncture treatment. I had met with Alison Beadell of Wood […]
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Going Against the Grain at Waseda Farms
For most of his life Tom Lutsey didn’t pay much attention to his diet. He liked his steaks, had his favorite hamburger spots in Door County, and loved to stop for a couple of the famous burgers at Kroll’s in Green Bay. He was running his family’s hugely successful ice cream business, Gold Bond Ice […]
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County airports ease travel concerns for businesses, residents and visitors
In an age of charters and fractional jet ownership – like Warren Buffett’s NetJets – planes fly in and fly out of airports with passengers, spending very little time parked.
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Egg Harbor’s Tornado Sculpture Isn’t What You Think It Is
A twisted steel sculpture appeared in front of the old Sunnypoint schoolhouse in Egg Harbor about a year after a tornado ripped through it. Most assume it’s a monument to the massive twister, but today we learn the full story behind it.
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Nearing his 93rd birthday, Florian Kwaterski believes he’s the oldest man in Baileys Harbor. He was born in Green Bay in 1919, and moved to Door County when he was three, first living at the end of Summit Road, near the Candioto farm.
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An undocumented student running out of options
Julio began his junior year of high school with the same excitement as the rest of his classmates at his rural Wisconsin high school. His athletic career was nearing its peak, the end of high school was in sight, and his college dreams were solidifying in his mind.
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Margaret Gilbert’s Door County Life
Author’s Note: When I reached Margaret Gilbert by phone at her Sevastopol home in May I hoped to get a little perspective on the family farm that her two sons, Ron and Tim, now operate about three miles east of Sturgeon Bay.