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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Pinning the Packerland Conference
The 2013/2014 season was exceptional for Southern Door wrestling. For the first time Southern Door’s varsity wrestling team won the Packerland Conference championship, they had three wrestlers qualify for the state tournament, and senior Jacob Englebert earned the state title in the 145-weight class.
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The six state parks in Door County attract 14.5 percent of the 14 million people who visit Wisconsin’s 69 state parks annually. That was one of many nuggets found in the recently released Economic Impacts of the Wisconsin State Park System: Connections to Gateway Communities, co-produced by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Bureau of Parks and Recreation and the University of Wisconsin– Madison Department of Urban and Regional Planning.
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Door County State Parks By the Numbers
NEWPORT STATE PARK Total Visits: 137,088 Local Daytrips: 30,845 Local Overnight: 10,282 Non-local Daytrips: 71,971 Non-local Overnight: 23,990 PENINSULA STATE PARK Total Visits: 1,077,397 Local Daytrips: 94,272 Local Overnight: 282,817 Non-local Daytrips: 315,139 Non-local Overnight: 385,169 POTOWATAMI STATE PARK Total Visits: 209,390 Local Daytrips: 78,521 Local Overnight: 26,174 Non-local Daytrips: 20,939 Non-local Overnight: 83,756 ROCK […]
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Article posted Thursday, March 13, 2014 11:45am
Great advances have been made during the past 20 years in retrieving and mapping ancient DNA. The techniques used are truly remarkable, and DNA is routinely being obtained and analyzed from fossilized or long-dead human and animal remains.
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The Plight of Climate Refugees
A free screening of Climate Refugees will be shown at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Ephraim on March 18 at 4:30 pm. A “climate refugee” is a person displaced by climatically induced environmental disaster.
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Let’s continue my discussion from the last column, in volume 20, issue nine of the Pulse, on commonly missed tax deductions for individuals. Here are a few more:
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DCEDC Host Informational Meeting on Wisconsin Fast Forward
The Door County Economic Development Corporation and Northwestern Technical College are offering lunch and an informational meeting about the second round of Wisconsin Fast Forward Grant Opportunities on Friday, March 21, 12 to 1:15 pm.
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Dr. Phillip Arnold Receives AOASM Award
Dr. Phillip Arnold of Ministry Door County Medical Center will receive the Award of Fellow from the American Osteopathic Academy of Sports Medicine (AOASM).
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Cross-stitch Dishtowels at JCC
Jacksonport Craft Cottage Gifts currently features handcrafted dishtowels by Doris. As a “cottage” industry, handmade items are the center of what the craft cottage features.
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Parallel 44 Releases Drink Pink!
Join Parallel 44 on March 15 as they release their newest wine, Drink Pink!, to the public. Gently pressed Frontenac and Foch grapes, from the vineyards of Parallel 44, have a sweet/tart expression of strawberries, red raspberries and pink grapefruit.
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Good Samaritans Help Starving Wildlife
One of the unexpected consequences of the severe winter was its effect on wildlife, particularly diving fowl that require open water to feed.
Last Friday, Paper Boy delivery driver Jerri O’Malley came across a weak Common Goldeneye and brought it to the Pulse office, where we discussed what to do about the injured duck.
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Governor to Speak at DCEDC Annual Meeting
Governor Scott Walker is the keynote speaker for the Door County Economic Development Corporation’s (DCEDC) annual investors meeting and luncheon on Monday, April 14.
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U.S. Coast Guard pollution responders, working in cooperation with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, were monitoring the salvage of a 70,000-pound excavator that broke through lake ice about four miles north of Sister Bay and about 100 feet offshore.
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Forum Introduces County Board Candidates
Jacksonport Town Hall was the site on the morning of Saturday, March 8, of a candidate forum sponsored by the Door County League of Women Voters.
In the spotlight were the two candidates for the District 16 seat on the Door County Board of Supervisors, which serves Ward 1 of the Town of Jacksonport and Ward 1 of the Town of Egg Harbor.
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Hazardous Material Testing Holds Up Lighthouse Restoration
The Door County Airport & Parks Committee is now waiting for the other shoe to drop in connection with the Cana Island Lighthouse Restoration Project.
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Article posted Thursday, March 6, 2014 10:32am
Drugs that greatly enhance the immune system’s response to cancer cells may be the wave of the future in treating malignancies – if we can afford them.
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Wisconsin ranks second nationally in the proportion of citizens considered birders, with fully one-third of residents 16 and older reporting they travel to watch birds, or actively watch and identify birds around home, according to a recently released U.
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Eradicating Invasives at The Rushes
Several work days have been scheduled for The Rushes on Kangaroo Lake. Tree planting and some invasives control on the trails are scheduled for April 29 through May 1.
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The Door County Master Gardeners welcome Sharon Morrisey, consumer horticulture agent for the Milwaukee County UW Extension, to Door County for a free presentation of “Your Lawn: Organic, Conventional, or In-Between” on March 18 at 7 pm at Crossroads at Big Creek in Sturgeon Bay.
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Crossroads Screens “Living Downstream”
The Door County Environmental Council in cooperation with Kewaunee Cares will present Living Downstream, a documentary based on Sandra Steingraber’s book of the same name, on Wednesday, March 12, at 7 pm at Crossroads At Big Creek, 2041 Michigan St.