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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.

SeniorCare, a program that helps Wisconsin seniors pay for prescription drugs, will survive another three years. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services approved a renewal of the program through 2015 on Thursday, Dec.

It was 32 degrees in the water and just 24 in the air, but Sue Jarosh insisted it was a beautiful day for swimming. “The temperature is cold, but that is not a factor,” Jarosh said.

During this dark part of the year, a lot of people don’t even want to think about how often they’ll see the sun. But students at Washington Island Schools are not only looking at how often the sun comes out, they’re tracking how much power they’re producing because of it.

Hearing aids are a godsend for those with hearing difficulties, but there are some important places, like churches or auditoriums, where they just don’t work very well.

Last summer as visitors swarmed the village and restaurants served baskets of cheese curds, french fries and burgers, the pipes beneath Egg Harbor ran thick with grease.

On Jan. 29, the Northern Door Fire District Exploratory Committee will start getting into the nitty gritty details of what it would take to make a Northern Door Fire District work.

A winter storm is brewing and expected to hit early Thursday morning, around 3 am. Between 8 and 13 inches are expected to accumulate in Door County.

With an additional 1,000 square feet at Patricia Shoppe, owner Erin Bosman can have her bathroom back. Patricia Shoppe’s two dressing rooms have been getting busier and busier since it opened in 2001 – causing Bosman to convert the front of her bathroom into a space for ladies to try on dresses and tops.

New steps being taken to employ unemployed veterans, an update on progress at the new Green Bay veterans’ clinic, and finding ways to connect veterans with services were the primary topics of conversation at a veterans’ listening session held at the County Government Center on Dec.

Don’t be surprised if you see ATVs driving down the road in Union sometime soon. At its Dec. 11 meeting, the Door County Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance that will allow ATVs and UTVs to operate on county highways within the town.

After receiving 2,033 comments on proposed Sporting Heritage Act, and only 84 supportive ones, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) revised the rules governing hunting and trapping in state parks.

Just seven months after breaking ground, the doors have officially opened at Anna’s Healthcare in Sturgeon Bay. The new assisted living facility, which can house up to 70 residents, hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony and public lunch on Dec.

Volunteer Mike Toneys’ efforts to revitalize outdoor education at Southern Door Schools were recognized on Nov. 20, when University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point’s LEAF organization, which is designed to promote forestry education in Wisconsin, presented him with one of 2012’s six LEAF awards.

Most people can’t choose their siblings, but the same isn’t true for cities. In May 2004, Door County began the process of entering into a sister city relationship with Jingdezhen, China, a city known as the “Porcelain Capital of the World.

Sturgeon Bay’s Matt Hanson is a pretty crazy guy. That’s really the only way to say it. Hanson was one of a number of like-minded athletes who competed in 2012’s World Toughest Mudder competition, a 24-hour race where contestants are expected not just to run 10-mile laps, but to overcome extreme obstacles (like dangling 10,000 volt live wires and 80-yard swims through freezing water) while doing so.

While they may not sleep in doorways or under bridges, there are homeless people in Door County and one small, rural church is determined to help by building a homeless shelter.