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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Sturgeon Bay YMCA Monday Night Volleyball: Nov. 9, 2015
STANDINGS As of Nov. 9, 2015 A League, W-L Nicolet Beach Concessions, 6-0 Bay Area Transplant, 3-3 Music Masters DJs, 2-1 Bayshore Powerballers, 1-5 YMCA, 0-3 B League, W-L Red Room, 6-0 Brick Lot, 5-1 Renard’s Cheese, 5-1 Para Tran, 4-2 Hatco, 3-3 Whiskepedia, 1-5 Econo Double Baggers, 0-6 Peninsula Podiatry, 0-6 RESULTS Nov. 9 […]
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Village of Egg Harbor Budget Message Highlights
By Ryan Heise, Village Administrator Thank you for the opportunity to review a few of the budget highlights in Egg Harbor for the coming year. First, you should know that the village is in the process of creating a budget document, which will get mailed out with the tax roll (1,300-plus landowners). The document will […]
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Community with a Vision: Baileys Harbor Goes through Design Team Process
They came. They saw. They envisioned. “It’s been a very stimulating experience,” said Gordon Rowley, head of the Baileys Harbor Plan Commission and a member of the coordinating committee that put together a weekend planning session between the community and a group of volunteer experts in a variety of fields to help focus on […]
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Open Door Receives Grant for Bird Care Center
The Door County Community Foundation has awarded the Open Door Bird Sanctuary a Sustainability Grant from the Education Fund. This grant provides financial support to the sanctuary to build a bird care center. The center will provide space for year-round educational programming and will also serve as a safe shelter in which to deliver rehabilitation […]
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Reps in the News: Nov. 6 – Nov. 12
Representative Joel Kitchens As a former school board member and president of the Sturgeon Bay School Board, Kitchens is not happy with a proposal introduced by Sen. Duey Stroebel and co-sponsored by 1st District Senator Frank Lasee that would put further restrictions on already struggling public school districts. Stroebel’s bill would force school districts to […]
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Fish Creek Pursues Permanent Beach Bathrooms
Fish Creek’s waterfront redevelopment plan will address many issues, but one that is pertinent to beachgoers, and the last 20 years of Gibraltar Town Board members, is putting up permanent bathrooms at the Fish Creek Beach. As boardwalks and band shells go up at waterfront communities throughout the county, why does Fish Creek still haul […]
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Science Snippet: Dragonflies Are One of the Most Effective Predators in Animal Kingdom
Here are some facts about one of the most successful predators on the planet. “African lions roar and strut and act the apex carnivore, but they’re lucky to catch 25 percent of the prey they pursue. Great white sharks have 300 slashing teeth and that ominous soundtrack, and still nearly half their hunts fail. Dragonflies, […]
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Monday Night Volleyball, Nov. 6, 2015
Standings as of Nov. 2, 2015 A League, W-L Nicolet Beach Concessions, 3-0 Music Masters DJs, 2-1 YMCA, 0-0 Bayshore Powerballers, 1-2 Bay Area Transplant 0-3 B League, W-L Para Tran, 3-0 Red Room, 3-0 Brick Lot, 2-1 Renard’s Cheese, 2-1 Hatco, 1-2 Whiskepedia, 1-2 Econo Double Baggers, 0-3 Peninsula Podiatry, 0-3 Results Nov. 2 […]
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Veteran Profile: Faith Connor Murray
Faith Connor Murray Ellison Bay Navy Nurse Corps Reserves, 1964-1967 Faith Murray received her undergraduate nursing degree at Villanova University, outside Philadelphia, Penn. Her first assignment after Officer Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island, was at the National Naval Medical Center (NNMC) in Bethesda, Maryland. This brought chuckles from her family since the motto of […]
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By Justin Skiba The Sevastopol Pioneers and the Gibraltar Vikings recently completed their third seasons of eight-man football. Since 2013, Door County residents have been exposed to this slightly different brand of fast-paced, high-energy football. Those who have witnessed a game first-hand will notice that it features high-scoring, big plays, and the same hard-hitting intensity […]
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New USDA Programs Aim to Attract Beginning Farmers
Agriculture Deputy Secretary Krysta Harden recently announced a commitment by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to prioritize $5.6 billion in the next two years within USDA programs and services that serve new and beginning farmers and ranchers. Deputy Secretary Harden also announced a new, tailored web tool designed to connect burgeoning farm entrepreneurs with […]
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Comments Sought on Forest Management Plans
Interim plans guiding the management of forest resources on a number of state-owned properties across the state are now available for review and comment through Nov. 13, 2015. The interim plans will guide forest management on the properties until formal master plans are completed. The Interim Forest Management Plans are important because they will allow […]
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Twenty Percent Increase in Revenue at Cadence, Inc.
Cadence, Inc. announced unaudited results for the first nine months of 2015, including a 20 percent increase in revenue compared to 2014 to $65.5 million. Earnings per share increased one percent above prior year to $2.44 per share for the nine-month period. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) were up five percent to […]
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Pulse Price Report, Nov. 6, 2015
Crop prices (Nov. 2) Rio Creek Feed Mill – Algoma Commodity Price Basis Corn $3.37/bushel -0.45 Soybeans $8.14/bushel -0.70 Wheat (SRW) $4.62/bushel -0.60 Fox River Valley Ethanol – Green Bay Corn $3.52/bushel -0.30 Basis: The difference between the local cash price for a commodity and the Chicago cash price (where the Board of […]
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News Bulletin: Nov. 6 – Nov. 12
WHAT HAPPENED The towns of Brussels, Union and Gardner have approved a $2.8 million referendum for the April 2016 election to upgrade the Brussels-Union-Gardner Fire Department. A Nov. 2014 referendum to approve $4.2 million for the fire station failed. COMING UP More than 20 local, state and national groups are gathering for a “Stink-In” on […]
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State May Overrule Federal Switchblade Act
Juvenile delinquents and switchblade knives were the scourge of the 1950s, or, at the very least, they were the scourge in movies and on the stage – Rebel Without A Cause (1955), Blackboard Jungle (1955), Crime In the Streets (1956), 12 Angry Men (1957), West Side Story (1957, the play, not the 1961 movie) and […]
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Municipal News: Nov. 6 – Nov. 12
City of Sturgeon Bay: Finance/Purchasing & Building Committees meet at 4 pm on Nov. 10. County of Door: The Human Services Board meets at 1 pm on Nov. 9. The Board of Health meets at 4 pm on Nov. 9. The county board meets to discuss the 2016 budget at 9 am on Nov. 10. […]
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White Gull Inn Named a Top Hotel in the Midwest by “Condé Nast Traveller”
Readers of Condé Nast Traveller have voted the White Gull Inn of Fish Creek as one of the Top 15 Hotels in the Midwest in the magazine’s 28th annual Readers’ Choice Awards survey. More than 128,000 travelers took part in the magazine’s survey – the most in its history – submitting millions of ratings and […]
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Bird Species & Behavior Topic of Next Ridges Discovery Series
The Ridges Discovery Series, modeled after its popular Lake Lessons summer series, offers monthly discussions about the plant and animal life of The Ridges and the surrounding area. On Nov. 12 at 7 pm, the topic is Bird Species & Behavior. The program meets at the Cook-Fuller Center, 8166 Hwy. 57 in Baileys Harbor, and […]
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Monday, Nov. 9 Peninsula Symphonic Band performs a Veterans Day Concert as a freewill offering to benefit the Door County Veterans Service Council, 7 pm, Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, Sturgeon Bay. Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2015 Southern Door School Eagle Gym, ceremony featuring Korean War veteran Tom Van Lieshout, 9:30 am. After the ceremony, there […]