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  • Finding Foster Families – Part 2

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    Lindsey Chike and Doreen Goddard, coordinators of the county’s Foster Care system, are busy. They have done 24 placements in the first two months of 2013, already over half of what they did last year.

  • Lower Range Light On the Move

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    A piece of history was (carefully) moved on Feb. 12, when the Lower Range Light at The Ridges Sanctuary was transferred from its old foundation, built in 1869, to its new one, located fifteen feet north of its current location.

  • Solutions Are Starting at the Dunes Lake Watershed

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    Deliberations are done, and action is now being taken to save the Dunes Lake watershed, which includes the Sevastopol area lake and about five square miles of the surrounding area.

  • Plowing Picks Up in 2013

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    After having a slow past couple of years due to a lack of snow, this year’s been a return to form for Door County’s snow removal crews.

  • Sister Bay Invites Non-Food Vendors to Waterfront Park

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    The Sister Bay Parks, Property and Streets Committee is looking for people to set up shop in Waterfront Park this summer.

    Last year when it received proposals from people interested in setting up face painting and Segway tour businesses in the park, the village parks committee members began discussing the possibility of allowing commercial vendors in village parks.

  • On Target – Second Amendment

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    This article is the final installment of On Target, a three-part series on guns and violence in America. Past articles covering school safety and Wisconsin gun legislation can be found online at www.

  • Finding Foster Families

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    Since child and family unit manager Dori Goddard began working for Door County Human Services in 2007, the need for foster families in Door County has never been this high.

  • Joe Smith Running Unopposed for Egg Harbor Village President in April

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    Egg Harbor Village President Nancy Fisher will not run for another term in April. Joe Smith, current village board trustee, is running unopposed and will likely take her place.

  • Nancy Fisher, Egg Harbor Village President not seeking re-election in April

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    Nancy Fisher has been on the Egg Harbor village board since 2004 and served as president for the last six years. She decided not to run for the position again.

  • Q&A with Dan Austad

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    In 1959, a high school senior named Dan Austad got his first taste of government when he was sent by his school to serve on a local committee (“Quite frankly I don’t even remember what it was,” says Austad.

  • Sturgeon Bay Approves Four-Story Apartment Building

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    At a special Jan. 29 session, the Sturgeon Bay Common Council gave preliminary approval to a proposed 42-unit, four-story apartment building that would be built on the corner of 2nd Ave.

  • Stitching While Studying

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    For the last five years, Gibraltar Middle School Social Studies teacher Lauren Mittermann has been the ringleader of an underground movement. Known as “Mitter’s Knitters,” the informal club now consists of about 40 seventh and eighth grade students who usually get together during lunch or after school to chat and piece together hats, socks, scarves, or blankets.

  • On Target – Gun Legislation

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    This article is part of On Target, a three-part series on guns and violence in America. A past article on school safety can be found on ppulse.com or in Peninsula Pulse volume 19, issue 2.

  • Waters End Road First Heritage Road in Liberty Grove

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    After years of work by citizen groups, committees and the town board a segment of Waters End Road became the first Heritage Road in Liberty Grove. “We now have a program and we now have a road, and I hope in the next few months more roads will be nominated,” said Mike Bahrke, highway committee member and former heritage roads subcommittee chair.

  • USS Guardian Runs Aground

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    USS Guardian Runs Aground Near the Philippines

  • The Safety Complex

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    Michael Dorn, executive director of Safe Havens International, is an expert on school safety. For him, it’s not all about intruders and guns. “We see something just as horrible as what happened in Connecticut, and all of a sudden we focus all of our specific resources on one type of event,” Dorn said.

  • 10 Key Findings of the Safe School Initiative:

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    A list related to the story On Target — School Safety.

  • April Election Candidates

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    I indicates incumbent. To more easily find your municipality, hit control + F to search the page. City of Sturgeon Bay Mayor – Thad Birmingham I Common Council District 1 – Dan Wiegand I District 3 – Ed Ireland District 5 – Joe Stutting I District 7 – Bob Schlicht I Town of Sturgeon Bay […]

  • Low Lake Levels Force a Change-Up for Washington Island Ferry Line

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    Visitors, residents, and cargo traveling to Washington Island will be taking a different approach once the ice sets in on Lake Michigan. After weeks of dredging and retrofitting, the island’s so-called Potato Dock has been set up as the Washington Island Ferry Line’s winter port of call.

  • Door County Schools Asking Voters for Support this April

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    This April, voters in the Sevastopol, Washington Island, Sturgeon Bay, and Southern Door school districts will likely face a familiar choice, as those districts are all looking at placing revenue limit override referendums on the ballot.