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Door County news from the pages of the Peninsula Pulse and Door County Living, the peninsula’s trusted, local sources for information about Door County, Wisconsin.

  • Sturgeon Bay School District

    Five candidates are vying for four seats on the Sturgeon Bay School District Board – challengers Jeffrey Matson and Cathy Meyer, and incumbents Angela Kruse, Wayne Spritka and Damion Howard.  Angela Kruse (incumbent), 53, lives in the City of Sturgeon Bay and works as a sales associate at O’Meara’s Irish House in Fish Creek. She […]

  • Hwy 42 Construction Timeline Outlined

    The crowd was smaller and quieter for the informational, preconstruction meeting on the downtown “core” part of the project than the one that preceded the first phase of Egg Harbor’s upgrades along state Highway 42. With fewer than 30 people in the audience at the Kress Pavilion, Village Administrator Megan Sawyer introduced the utility contractors […]

  • Possible Ways To Recoup Costs For Ice Rescues

    It came up during the County of Door’s Judiciary and Public Safety Committee meeting this week that maybe some of the anglers requiring ice rescues – or the tour guides and captains putting those anglers on precarious ice conditions – shouldn’t be getting off free of charge. The idea was floated by District 14 County […]

  • Ice-Fishing Traffic Raises Concern At Point Beach

    With much of the ice unsafe on Green Bay this winter, some fishing guides and anglers seeking thicker ice parked along narrow roads near the small access points in the Point Beach neighborhood. In response to concerns about traffic and lines of trucks and trailers along roadways, the village is considering a combination kayak-and-ice fishing […]

  • Food Storage, Distribution Favored in TID #9

    A 17.8-acre parcel owned by the City of Sturgeon Bay between South Neenah Avenue and Shiloh Road in Tax Increment District (TID) #9 could be developed with an industrial building used to facilitate the storage and distribution of cold and dry food products. The Sturgeon Bay Common Council passed a resolution March 5 in support […]

  • Sister Bay Seeking Artists

    The Village of Sister Bay wants to honor those who donate money to local parks, enabling the purchase of benches, trees, playground equipment and other amenities, by erecting some kind of recognition feature – a donor wall or plaque or other artistic feature that honors those who have helped improve local parks.   The village’s Parks, […]

  • What’s In Port: The First 1,000-footer Built at Bay Shipbuilding The “Walter J. McCarthy, Jr”

    by THE DOOR COUNTY MARITIME MUSEUM Tom Wenstadt, contributor The merchant vessel (M/V) Walter J. McCarthy Jr. arrived Jan. 16 at the mouth of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, where it anchored for the night. The next morning, the vessel backed six miles up the bay to the Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding storage dock. This vessel was the […]

  • Seasonal, Island Coast Guard Station Not Opening Due to Personnel Shortage

    More reliance upon volunteer USCG Auxiliary The U.S. Coast Guard will not open its seasonal Washington Island Station this year due to a shortage of personnel that’s hit the entire military branch. Petty Officer First Class Taylor Barnes, who is going through his third winter at the Sturgeon Bay U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) station, said […]

  • Meet the Candidates for the April 2 Election

    It’s that time of year when we introduce you to the candidates who want to help lead our municipalities, our county and our school boards. Voters have choices in five municipalities for this year’s April 2 spring election: the towns of Baileys Harbor, Gardner, Sevastopol and Washington, and the Village of Sister Bay; on the […]

  • Gibraltar Uses Interest Income to Broaden Construction Scope

    Interest income on the $29.8 million building referendum approved a year ago by Gibraltar school district voters has been so good that the school board has expanded the scope of the project, the school board learned on March 11. During the annual meeting in fall 2023, Gibraltar schools superintendent Brett Stousland noted that some additional […]

  • Community Investment Fund Receives Innovation Award

    Destination Door County’s Community Investment Fund was honored with an Innovation Award at the Wisconsin Governor’s Conference on Tourism, March 12, held in Lake Geneva. The Innovation Award is presented to a business or community that has demonstrated outstanding initiative through the implementation of new strategies that positively impact their organization and destination.  Destination Door […]

  • Eight Pioneer Girls Hoopsters Academic All-State

    Eight varsity girls basketball players from Sevastopol have been recognized as Academic All-State by the Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA). The Pioneer girls include seniors Libby Ash, Katie Spude and Kylee Duessler, juniors Naomi Rikkola, Kayla Ranly and Ella Volkmann, and freshmen Lyvia Duessler and Izzy Andreae. Sturgeon Bay senior girls basketball player Tori Alger […]

  • Door County Getting $3.9 million for Communications Project Upgrade

    Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisconsin) announced this week that the County of Door would receive $3.9 million for the upgrade of its public safety radio system that assures all peninsula residents and visitors can contact emergency personnel when they need them.  The county is in the beginning stages of a full-system upgrade to its communication infrastructure […]

  • Peninsula Conference Renamed Across the Bay

    Door County’s two eight-player high school football teams will have one fewer league opponent next fall when the Peninsula Conference will also be renamed the Across the Bay Conference under a realignment plan approved by the WIAA Board of Control.  In addition to the name change, Wausaukee is leaving the league to join the Northeast […]

  • Daoust Repeats as Packerland Player of the Year

    Southern Door junior point guard Drew Daoust has been named the Packerland Conference’s Player of the Year in boys basketball for the second season in a row. Daoust, who holds Door County’s career scoring mark with 2,225 points, tallied 885 points this season to lead the league- and regional-champion Eagles, who went 16-0 in conference […]

  • Two Pioneer Girls on Packerland First Team

    Packerland Conference girls basketball co-champion Sevastopol has two juniors who were the team’s top-two scorers make the All-Conference first team, Naomi Rikkola and Kayla Ranly. Rikkola this season scored 465 points to reach 1,104 for her career, 219 away from the school record of 1992 graduate Michelle Bushman. Southern Door’s leading scorer, senior Payton Gilbertson, […]

  • Tiani LeMieux is Packerland Wrestler of the Year

    Sturgeon Bay/Sevastopol sophomore Tiani LeMieux, who finished second this season at 138 pounds among girls wrestlers at the WIAA state individual tournament, has been named the Packerland Conference Wrestler of the Year. LeMieux, who qualified for state for the second year in a row and received All-Conference honors at 150 pounds, finished the season 36-6 […]

  • Strivers Sweep Podium at Kettle Moraine YMCA

    The Door County YMCA Strivers gymnastic team had a clean sweep of sorts in West Bend while competing on the first weekend in March in the 10-team Fire and Ice Invitational hosted by the Kettle Moraine YMCA. The Strivers’ Xcel Silver gymnasts grabbed gold in the team competition with a score of 114.5. The Strivers […]

  • BOWLING LEAGUE RESULTS

    Apple Valley Classic League  Feb. 26, 2024 • Team / high game: Greystone Castle 666 • Team / high series: Apple Valley Pro Shop 1,930 • Women / high game: Michelle Hartel 217, Penny Kramer 214, Michelle Pfannenstiel 207 • Women / high series: Michelle Hartel 595, Penny Kramer 594, Michelle Pfannenstiel 548 • Men / […]

  • Eagles Fall to Freedom in Sectional Semifinals

    The season came to an end Thursday for Southern Door’s boys basketball team. The No. 2-seeded Eagles lost in the WIAA Division 3 sectional semifinals to top-seeded Freedom, 80-50, in a game played at Green Bay Preble High School. The Irish, who led 44-23 at halftime, were able to dominate the game early on with […]