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Bryan J. Buske of Fish Creek passed away in the early morning on Monday, September the 17th at age 52. Bryan was a loving husband of 29 years to his wife Laurie and a dearly loved father of Clayton and Katelaine.

Wisconsin residents that register to vote in the upcoming election now have more ways to prove their residency in the upcoming election. Now they’re able to use electronic documents to prove they’re Wisconsin residents.

Wolves may adorn the Wisconsin Endangered Resources license plate, but they no longer get much protection off state roads. Wisconsin’s first wolf hunting season begins in October, marking the animals’ transition from an endangered species to wild game.

For some Door County high school students, September means it’s time not only to get back to school, but also to get back to cyberspace. “Last year we had a substantial increase in the number of students taking classes online,” says Robert Nickel, principal at Sturgeon Bay High School.

At its Sept. 5 meeting, the Liberty Grove Town Board decided to pursue purchasing the Johnson and Czepulonis properties in Ellison Bay for a location of a new visitor center.

As the summer season slips away, a fall phenomenon began to take place: leaves changing from green to yellow, orange and red. Potawatomi State Park naturalist Wendy Wagner said this summer’s dry weather stressed the trees and predicts leaf colors will change soon and fall off early.

After two years, a referendum, and a series of meetings, the amendment process for the Town of Baileys Harbor’s Smart Growth Plan is nearing its conclusion.

On September 9, over 2,300 bicyclists will explore the roads of Door County as part of the 34th annual Door County Century Ride. The ride is not a race, but a social affair where riders are encouraged to ride together and move at their own pace over distances from 28.

A chain of islands stretching from the Door Peninsula to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula have long been home to shorebirds looking to nest in uninterrupted stretches of sand and migrating birds looking for a place to stop along the way.

When Keith Yedica travels the country, he makes his trips about more than the destination. “It’s the freedom of the road,” said Yedica, a representative of Wisconsin Motorcycle Touring.

With the 2012 Republican and Democratic National Conventions now in the rearview mirror, the official ramp-up to November elections has begun, and the chairs of both parties’ county headquarters are getting ready to mobilize voters and volunteers.

Fall isn’t only a time of transition for Door County’s landscape. A lot of Door County’s seasonal workers – be they high school students, college students, retirees, or foreigners – will be leaving their summer jobs come September as schools start back up and colder weather begins to set in.

On July 3, 1964, Roen Salvage Co. President John Asher received the child labor permit that allowed him to start working in the yards of the marine construction and dredging company started in 1949 by his parents, Charles and Hilda, and his grandfather, Captain John Roen, the man responsible for the raising of the freighter George M.