Category: Features

It isn’t every day a person gets to amble amongst the livestock before purchasing the week’s meat. Many of us are in the habit of forgetting that our favorite cut of steak or a nice, juicy burger comes from a cow.

Patti Ligman of Sturgeon Bay says she owes her life to a dog named Zeus. It’s not a rescued-from-a-burning-building or a saved-from-drowning tale of canine heroism, but a life-changing story all the same.

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s budget proposal will put a squeeze on Northeastern Wisconsin Technical College (NWTC), just as educators and business leaders say the technical training it offers is more important and valuable than ever.

Some academics may live in ivory towers and deal with abstractions – but not Dr. Linda Steiner. While for the last 10 years she has been an adjunct professor of psychology at UW-Green Bay, she has also been grounded in the real world as a social psychologist.

In two of the first three editions of the Door County Half Marathon, Laura Ankrum has paced the women’s field (she finished second in 2009). The Crivitz doctor has a family practice at NorthReach Healthcare’s Crivitz Medical Center and will return for her 4th Door County Half Marathon May 7.

Kim Jensen contends that painting on the wall of her Egg Harbor restaurant, Mojo Rosa’s, is a mural. Village officials call it signage. Now, it looks like it will take a date in Door County circuit court to see who’s opinion of art is correct.

Some people may not recognize the buildings that once housed migrants who worked in Door County’s cherry and apple orchards. Much of the housing that remains has either been pressed into other uses, or moved to historical preservation sites.

Theodore “Ted” Olson has argued 55 cases before the United States Supreme Court, but he says his most unlikely case may be his most important.

Emilie Daubner survived two fires at her home place on Waters End Road, the first in 1930 when she was a girl. The house, which was rebuilt on the same foundation in 1950, again caught fire when she was in her 90s, and once more she safely escaped.

Jumping into Lake Michigan on January 1 in Jacksonport may be crazy, but doing it right – and in some small degree of comfort – does involve a little planning.

At the memorial service for Jon Kordon last January, his oldest son Peter remarked that when people offered him their consolation, “They all had a story to tell.”

“How do all those dollar bills get on the ceiling?” It’s a question the bartenders at Husby’s Food and Spirits in Sister Bay come to hear in their sleep and may loathe on a busy Friday night.

Feed the Fish, the movie filmed primarily in Door County in the winter of 2009, is coming back to Sturgeon Bay for the New Year. Director Michael Matzdorff’s independent film will be shown at the Sturgeon Bay Cinema 6 from Dec.

When local actress Amy Ensign teaches acting workshops as a part of the Exposure to Creativity program at Gibraltar High School, she not only shares her craft with students but also insights that she has gained from a life that has included years of extended sailing adventures.

For many families in America, Thanksgiving begins by watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on television, drinking coffee as the kitchen fills with the scent of gravy, stuffing, and turkey.