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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Researchers Pinpoint Strontium in Aquifer
Earlier this year, a report by researchers at the University of Wisconsin – Green Bay identified the source of a naturally occurring chemical element in the deep-water aquifer of northeastern Wisconsin that could pose problems for children.
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Just as everyone can be Irish on St. Patrick’s Day, so everyone has the opportunity to enjoy all things Belgian on Belgian Days in Brussels July 12 & 13.
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Twenty-five years ago Gary and Mary Ann Guterman went in search of a mission – and they found it in Sister Bay.
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Grand Reopening of Seaquist Orchards Farm Market
The Seaquist family invites everyone to the grand reopening of the newly remodeled Seaquist Orchards Farm Market on July 12, 10 am – 4 pm, and to Pie Under Door’s Sky that evening from 7 to 9 pm.
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Kopischke Accepted to Harvard Business School
Birch Creek Executive Director Alan Kopischke was accepted to the Harvard Business School’s (HBS) Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management Executive Education program.
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Joseph Hockers Named Vice President of Baylake Bank
Baylake Bank recently welcomed Joseph Hockers as vice president, director of treasury management to their commercial banking team. Hockers has been a Certified Treasury Professional (CTP) since 1998 and has been working with treasury management clients in Northeast Wisconsin for nearly 20 years.
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Dentistry by Design Volunteers for MOM
Dr. Paul Feit and a handful of his team members from Dentistry by Design were part of the 1,218 volunteer dentists, dental hygienists and assistants, dental students, faculty and community members who traveled to Green Bay to help make the sixth Wisconsin Dental Association (WDA) and WDA Foundation Mission of Mercy (MOM) a success.
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Landlord Training Workshop Offered
Lakeshore Community Action Program, Inc. is hosting a Lakeshore Landlord Training workshop on July 17 at their offices located at 702 State St., Manitowoc, from 8 am – 3:30 pm.
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Jaureguis Share Mustang Training
Door County’s own horse whisperer Chewy Jauregui, who was featured in the 2012 documentary about the Extreme Mustang Makeover Wild Horse Wild Ride, is training another mustang for the 2014 Extreme Mustang Makeover, as are his two nephews, Angel 10, and Mathew, 9.
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Parallel 44 Earns Best Wisconsin Wine Award
The Best Wisconsin Wine named at the Wisconsin Professional Wine Competition, hosted by the Wisconsin State Fair, was La Crescent from Kewaunee’s Parallel 44 Vineyard & Winery.
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Protect Yourself from Identity Theft
Door County Women in Business will meet on July 24 at 8 am in the City Hall Community Room for a presentation on identity theft. “One out of six U.S. citizens will experience the nightmare of identity theft.
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Rass Asphalt Purchases Jay’s Asphalt
Rass Asphalt, LLC is announcing the purchase of Jay’s Asphalt in Dyckesville. Rass Asphalt is excited to offer customers new and expanded services, including asphalt seal coating, crack filling, and parking lot striping.
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“Golf is a sport unlike any other.” It’s a cliché used far too much. Of course, it’s different, just as all sports are different. It’s different in goal; different in strategy; different in purpose, etc.
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Golfer Peter Ewing of Northbrook, Illinois tees off on #13 at The Orchards in Egg Harbor.
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Members of the extended family of Tom and Ruthann Grantham show how many holes in one they had after a round at Pirate’s Cove Adventure Golf in Sister Bay on July 2.
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Mark calendars now for the Peninsula Park Golf Classic, scheduled for Aug. 24 at the Peninsula State Park Golf Course. The format is an 18-hole, four person scramble.
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Golf League Results
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NASA successfully launched its first spacecraft dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide on July 2. The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) soon will begin a minimum two-year mission to locate Earth’s sources of and storage places for atmospheric carbon dioxide, the leading human-produced greenhouse gas responsible for warming our world and a critical component of the planet’s carbon cycle.
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Article posted Wednesday, July 2, 2014 12:13pm
Why do bumblebees buzz? Workers in Britain recorded and analyzed 1,289 buzzes from several species of bumblebee (Genus Bombus). It turns out that bumblebees have two distinct buzzes.
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The Wisconsin Department of Tourism welcomes the Village of Egg Harbor as a certified member of its Travel Green Wisconsin (TGW) program. This program furthers Wisconsin’s commitment to sustainability.