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“It was pretty crazy.” That was Laura Seaquist’s summation of Aug. 5, a pie day to end all pie days at the Seaquist Orchard Farm Market. It began as a sort of joke in 2007, when Laura’s mother, Kristin, bet the 10 ladies who routinely turn out 800 or so pies every Thursday that they’d never be able to make 1,000 in one day.

As Auxiliary Bishop Robert Morneau led a group of Door County dignitaries into the new wing of Ministry Door County Hospital, he was followed by a cascade of oohs, ahhs, and wows.

After nearly four years of discussions, joint meetings and closed sessions, the village and town of Egg Harbor have decided to keep their fire protection arrangement status quo.

In the July 30 issue of the Pulse (v16i19) in the article about Door county Memorial Hospital’s addition called “A New Standard,” we incorrectly identified a nurse in a photo.

• Bay Shipbuilding Company in Sturgeon Bay will move forward under new leadership. Longtime Vice President and General Manager Pat O’Hern has been replaced by Gene Caldwell at the company, which is a subsidiary of Fincantieri Marine Group. Company officials would not comment on why the change was made. Caldwell had held a senior management […]

It’s official — the 2010 Kewaunee/Door County Salmon Tournament is in the books. Before summer is over, 200 lucky anglers will be getting checks in the mail ranging from $30 for a 16.

After nearly four years of discussions, joint meetings and closed sessions, the village and town of Egg Harbor have decided to keep their fire protection arrangement status quo.

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When it came time for Door County Memorial Hospital to transition to its present location in 1963, the hospital staff worked, unpaid, on a long Saturday to make the move.

The Door County Board of Supervisors secured public access to the caves near Horseshoe Bay in the Town of Egg Harbor. At its July 27 meeting the board agreed to a swap of land with the owners of Horseshoe Bay Golf Course in which the county gained control of the caves and the golf course received a piece of land by the course’s 18th green.

In our June 18 issue (v16i13), an article on the passing of Peninsula Players mainstay Robert “Bob” Thompson (“Bob Thompson, Peninsula Players’ Mainstay, Dies”) included Robert Wagner in the list of actors he had worked with.

Monday night was Service Industry Night on the Harbor Lady cruise in Sturgeon Bay. It was a very safe ride! United States Coast Guard personnel stationed in Sturgeon Bay were doing training for protecting a vessel, and the Harbor Lady served as the Guard’s special assignment for the exercise. Throughout our ride through the Sturgeon […]

Hybrid technology has taken root in the auto industry, and fuel efficiency in cars is back in vogue, but powerboats often get less than one mile per gallon of fuel.

When Gordy Nelson’s mother heard he was opening a hardware store in Baileys Harbor in 1945, she laid her head on the table and cried. “How can a good Baptist boy like you move from Ellison Bay to a place with more taverns than churches,” she wailed.

An osprey family has returned to their home on the Cellcom cell tower across from Gibraltar school in Fish Creek. The birds return to the nest annually on a platform of the 150-foot tower, where they enjoy a stellar view of Gibraltar softball games in the spring.

There were once 1,300 dairy farms in Door County, according to a video at the Door County Historical Museum, and they sold their milk to 49 “crossroads” cheese factories.

Padra Meyer of Des Plaines, IL was the first woman to cross the finish line in Saturday’s Door County Triathlon sprint distance event. She even broke the tape, but she didn’t win the race.