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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.

  • Super Committee Weighs Options for Public Space Along City Waterfront

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    Dancing water fountains, splash pools in the shape of the Great Lakes, dry docking the John Purvestug on land, an ice skating rink and doing nothing at all were some of the options offered for the public space of the Westside Waterfront Development project at a meeting of a Sturgeon Bay “super committee” held at Sturgeon Bay High School March 24.

  • Representatives in the News

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    Gov. Scott Walker

    A little more than three years ago, when John Menard Jr. wanted to back Walker, he found the perfect way to do so without attracting any attention:  he wrote more than $1.

  • Municipal News: City Seeks Grain Elevator Site Proposals

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    City of Sturgeon Bay:  The city has issued a request for proposals to purchase and develop the approximately ¼-acre grain elevator site on the west side waterfront.

  • Farmers Irked By Timetable for New Nutrient Management Plans

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    Farmers are irked by a tight timetable for new nutrient management plans demanded by the Soil and Water Conservation Dept.

  • Summit Addresses Heroin in Door County

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    The Door County Alcohol and Other Drug Coalition sponsored an event at Crossroads at Big Creek on March 24 to address heroin use in Door County. While not a widespread issue on the peninsula, increasing heroin use across the state led to some concerns about the drug crossing into the county borders.

  • Ralph Murre Name Door County Poet Laureate

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    Beginning April 1, Ralph Murre will be Door County’s new Poet Laureate, succeeding Estella Lauter, who is just wrapping up her two-year term in the uncompensated role.

  • Supreme Court Declines to Hear Voter Registration Case

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    WHAT HAPPENED

    • The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a challenge to Wisconsin’s voter identification law.

  • Final LEED Open House

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    Saturday, March 28, marks the fourth and final in a four-part series of educational open houses for Sturgeon Bay’s first LEED-registered home, designed by architect Virge Temme of Sturgeon Bay and built by Ahnapee Construction of Algoma.

  • Natural Enemies of Garden Pests

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    The Door County Master Gardeners are pleased to present Associate Professor Mike Draney, University of Wisconsin – Green Bay, who returns to Door County to discuss the truth in the old saying “the enemies of your enemies are your friends.

  • The World’s Changing Glaciers

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    Chasing Ice is the next Dinner and a Movie at Greens N Grains on April 2. As the debate polarizes America, and the intensity of natural disasters ramps up globally, Chasing Ice depicts a heroic photojournalist on a mission to deliver fragile hope to our carbon-powered planet.

  • Article posted Wednesday, March 25, 2015 2:30pm

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    In addition to the loss of Diporeia, a major food source for fish in Lake Michigan, there are other challenges to the Great Lakes ecosystem, including the arrival of zebra mussels about 1980 and quagga mussels in the 1990s.

  • The Naked Woods

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    The morning of March 21 – the first full day of spring – started out gloomy with a uniformly gray sky and a distinct nip in the air thanks to a bitter northwest wind.

  • Cast Your Votes for Ice Out Contest

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    Cast your votes for the 77th annual Ice Out Contest in Sister Bay. In 2014, the Ice Out raft started floating at 10:28 am on April 28 due to the strong winds from the Northeast.

  • Family Farms are Focus of New Census Data

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    The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) reports that family owned farms remain the backbone of the agriculture industry.

  • GBAY Students to Travel to Orlando

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    GBAY, the school-based enterprise at Gibraltar High School, was among 20 school-based enterprises in Wisconsin achieving Gold Level Certification this year and will be recognized at DECA’s International Career Development Conference (ICDC) in Orlando, Fla.

  • Fiber Art at JCC

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    Jacksonport Craft Cottage Gifts is featuring appliquéd specialty items by Marilyn Horn in the fiber arts category. All of Horn’s products are hand stitched and appliquéd items that are of her own original designs.

  • Rotary Announces “Business in Ethics” Awards

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    At a March 19 luncheon, the recipients of the Rotary “Ethics in Business” awards were announced. The 14 nominees were grouped into three categories: Individuals, Not-for-Profit and For Profit.

  • DCVB Takes Show on the Road

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    The Door County Visitor Bureau (DCVB) will again be taking the show on the road this spring to provide local constituents the opportunity to meet with staff members and other tourism industry representatives at different venues around the county.

  • Taco Bell Building Sold

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    The old Taco Bell building on Egg Harbor Road in Sturgeon Bay was sold to Rob Esposito this week.

  • Municipal News

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    Town of Jacksonport: The town board meets at 7 pm on March 24. City of Sturgeon Bay: A new “super committee” will review plans for the city’s Westside Waterfront Redevelopment project at 6 pm, March 24, at Sturgeon Bay High School.