Category: Door County News
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.
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Earth Day Activities, Brown Trout Tourney & More Weekend Plans
What better way to start a weekend in beautiful Door County than with a host of Earth Day celebrations? Get out and about while lending Mother Nature a helping hand and when you need a break, head to the local theater to see what our young talent has to offer or celebrate your Belgian heritage […]
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Baileys Harbor Annual Meeting April 19
The Annual Meeting for the Town of Baileys Harbor will be held on Tuesday, April 19, 2016 at 7 pm in the Auditorium at the Town Hall, 2392 County F.
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Tickets Available for Rotary Club Shipyard Tour
Tickets are now on sale for the Sturgeon Bay Rotary Club’s 23nd Annual Sturgeon Bay Shipyard Tour, which takes place from 9 am to 2 pm on Saturday, May 7. Tickets are also available at the gates on the day of the tour. This is the only day of the year that Bay Shipbuilding and […]
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Mayor Thad Birmingham Humbled by Close Vote
After a contentious campaign that devolved into name-calling on both sides, Sturgeon Bay Mayor Thad Birmingham squeaked by challenger Laurel Brooks with a mere 52 votes in the April 5 election. “Relief, I guess, is probably the best word for how I feel,” Birmingham said the day after the election. “It was a long campaign. […]
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The Climate Corner: Nations Come Together for Climate Change Action
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon nearly cried with joy. On Dec. 12 of last year nearly 200 countries agreed on the urgency to actively address climate change. Of great importance was the fact that the 55 countries that account for two-thirds of the total global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions signed the Conference Of Parties agreement […]
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4,300 Participate in Spring Fish and Wildlife Hearings
More than 4,300 people came out to participate in the 2016 Spring Fish and Wildlife Hearings and Wisconsin Conservation Congress county meetings that were held in every county statewide on Monday, April 11. The public hearings provide citizens with an opportunity to comment and indicate preference on a wide range of proposed fish and wildlife […]
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Jacksonport Women’s Club Accepting Flowering Tree Orders
The Jacksonport Women’s Club Tree Beautification Project will take orders for flowering trees until April 17 for delivery in early May. Three trees are being offered – Prairifire, with rosy blooms and green foliage that turns orange-red in the fall; Sugartyme, white blooms and green foliage; and Purple Prince, with maroon leaves and pink blooms. […]
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Egg Harbor Approves New Wine Festival
The Egg Harbor Business Association (EHBA) recently found itself with a major problem that any community in the world might envy – advance ticket sales for a brand-new festival outgrew the space the festival was assigned in the village. EHBA President Jeff Larson explained the problem of the new Door County Wine Festival to the […]
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11,200 Speak On Waukesha Water Diversion
In a remarkable demonstration of public interest, more than 11,200 public comments were submitted to the Regional Body and Compact Council on the City of Waukesha’s application to divert Great Lakes water. More than 99 percent of those comments explicitly opposed or expressed concern over Waukesha’s request. “Anyone paying attention to the polarized nature of […]
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Not all bugs are bugs. True bugs, as defined by entomologists, belong to the insect order Hemiptera (which means half-winged). In the fall, lots of true bugs show up in and around our homes. Usually these are of two types: Brown Marmorated Stink Bugs or other bugs belonging to a group called Reduviidae. The […]
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Kewaunee County Municipal News: April 15 – 22
City of Algoma: The Library Board meets at 4 pm on April 18. The Community Development Committee meets at 6 pm on April 18. The Utility Committee meets at 5 pm on April 20. The Finance/Personnel Committee meets at 8:30 am on April 21. City of Kewaunee: Spring yard waste pickup will be on Monday, […]
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Earth Week Door County: Groups Collaborate to Celebrate Environment
They took all the trees And put them in a tree museum Then they charged the people A dollar and a half just to see ’em – Joni Mitchell, “Big Yellow Taxi” Joni Mitchell’s dystopian vision of our environmental future can’t happen here, especially not with volunteer efforts to plant 5,000 trees on […]
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Enhancing Lake Michigan Bluff Lands Workshop
Enhancing Your Lake Michigan Bluff Lands is a workshop for landowners to be held the evening of May 3 at Lakeshore Technical College in Cleveland, Wis. The evening begins with a coffee social at 5:30 pm, followed by presentations at 6 pm. Melissa Curran, a botanist from Stantec Consulting Services, will provide an update on […]
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Jacksonport Steps Closer to Sidewalks
The Jacksonport Plan Commission concluded its April 11 meeting by taking a walk through the downtown corridor to look at where the planned walking paths will be placed. The town board recently gave the Plan Commission approval to get estimates for the sidewalks, but before that, the commission members needed to know that the four-foot […]
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Price Report: Corn Price Crisis
The agriculture research and advisory firm AgResource forecast corn prices will dip to $2.80 in 2016, the lowest price in 10 years. Increased production in the United States and Argentina, two of the highest grain producers, will continue pushing these prices downward. The United States has been producing record levels of corn in the past […]
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City of Sturgeon Bay: The Parking & Traffic Committee meets at 3:30 pm on April 18. The common council meets at 7 pm on April 19. County of Door: The Administrative Committee meets at 8:30 am on April 18. The Finance Committee meets at 2 pm on April 18. The ADRC Advisory Board meets at […]
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Reps in the News: April 15 – 22
Governor Scott Walker Walker, Lt. Governor Rebecca Kleefisch, and the Wisconsin Women’s Council announced the recipients of the 2016 Governor’s Trailblazer Awards for Women in Business, recognizing women pioneers in the business community. Award recipients will be honored in a ceremony at the State Capitol later this spring. “Here in Wisconsin, we have many woman-owned […]
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April 22: Science on Tap kick-off party from 5 to 8 pm at Door County Brewing Co., Baileys Harbor, with music by Ruby James, Roger Kuhns and Door County Folk Alliance. April 23: Earth Day Extravaganza at The Ridges Sanctuary, Baileys Harbor, 10 am to 4 pm. Love the Earth Concert, 7 pm, Lost Moth […]
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Commentary: Life in Paradise, A Look at “Wayward Pines”
We’ve heard this tale before. The setting might be a green valley in Vermont, the highlands of Scotland, or somewhere in the distant future. A traveler wanders in a remote countryside and unexpectedly comes upon a charming village – a delightful place to visit or even to settle permanently. But the visitor soon realizes that […]
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Commentary: Wisconsin’s Wage Gap Costs State’s Women More Than $8.3 Billion Per Year
By The National Partnership for Women & Families On average, Wisconsin women employed full time, year round are paid just 79 cents for every dollar paid to men – a yearly pay gap of $10,037. That means, in total, women in Wisconsin lose more than $8.3 billion every year, which is money that could […]