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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Inge Bacon, Gay Pustaver and Dawn VandeVoort hope to be among the hundreds of New Year’s revelers gathered at Lakeside Beach Park in Jacksonport at noon on Jan.
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Your Representatives in the News
State Assembly Representative Garey Bies
Two of Bies’ bills were recently signed into law.
The first was Assembly Bill 62, which broadened the definition of “intoxicant” to include hazardous substances that are inhaled or ingested in a manner contrary to their intended purposes.
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Fire Departments to Purchase New Trucks
The Gibraltar and Sister Bay/Liberty Grove Fire Departments are each purchasing a new truck. The Gibraltar Fire Department has designed a new fire truck to replace the one that caught fire at the station during a routine truck maintenance check in early fall.
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30,000 Chinook Allocated to Northern Door
While nothing is definite yet, it looks like the grassroots campaign by Gills Rock charter boat captains and friends to have Gills Rock included in the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Chinook salmon stocking strategy might have worked.
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DOT Construction Scheduled for Fish Creek in 2016
• Cold weather delayed construction in downtown Sister Bay, according to Tammy Kuehlmann, project manager for Donahue & Associates engineering firm. “Originally we thought this was what the contractor was going to do, be out there in December, then take off January and February and come back,” she said. “It’s just when they provide a […]
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Baileys Harbor Closes on Property Purchase
The Town of Baileys Harbor closed on the purchase of downtown property.
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70 Acres Dedicated to Crossroads at Big Creek
The Nature Conservancy donated almost 70 acres forested with large red oaks, tall pines, white cedar, hemlock, sugar maple and beech trees to Crossroads at Big Creek on Dec.
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Cold Weather Stalls Sister Bay Construction
Most Decembers in Sister Bay have average lows around 19 degrees. This December has seen much colder weather, with temperatures dipping below zero for days in a row.
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No Asian Carp DNA Found in Water Samples
Water samples collected from Sturgeon Bay last month and analyzed for evidence of Asian carp DNA have come back negative, state officials announced. “We’re obviously happy that the results came back negative.
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Arnie Johnsrud Announces Candidacy for Wisconsin First Assembly District
Retired high school ag teacher and Kewaunee County farmer Arnie Johnsrud has thrown his hat in the ring as Democratic candidate for the 1st Assembly District, a seat that has been held by seven-term Sister Bay Republican Garey Bies since the election of 2000.
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Animal Clinic of Sturgeon Bay Earns AAHA Accreditation
Animal Clinic of Sturgeon Bay has achieved the highest level of veterinary excellence following a thorough evaluation by the American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA).
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DCEDC Sponsor Entrepreneurial Training Program
The Door County Economic Development Corporation (DCEDC) and the UW-Green Bay Small Business Development Center (SBDC) are sponsoring an entrepreneurial training program in Door County.
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Sevastopol Updates Religion in Curriculum Policy
The Sevastopol School District is adding to its religion in the curriculum policy as part of a routine code review. “In the classroom we don’t promote, compel or pressure any student to participate in a devotional exercise,” said Superintendent Linda Underwood.
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A simple book recycling idea has netted Southern Door School District bus driver Ted Chaudoir a 2014 Celebrate Literacy Individual Award from the Wisconsin State Reading Association (WRSA).
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Sue Ebel cannot understand why so many of her fellow Wisconsin Tavern League members in Door County don’t do their customers a huge service by taking part in the Tavern League’s SafeRide/Good Samaritan programs, which give free rides home to patrons who might otherwise find themselves doing sobriety tests on the roadside for Door County’s finest.
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Buy Local for Sustainable Holiday Shopping
Want to be green this Christmas? Bill Chaudoir has a two-word idea for you: Buy Local.
“At least think locally,” Chaudoir said.
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Where some see a chilly, relaxing hobby and others see a way to feed the family in the winter, Nick Oram sees TV gold.
“[Ice fishing] has all the trappings of a great sport,” Oram said.
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Your Representatives in the News
Governor Scott Walker
Washington Post opinion writer Marc A. Thiessen compared Walker and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, two politicians speculated to run for president in 2016.
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Neighbors Could Sue for Turbines’ Physical, Emotional Damages
A bill in the state Senate would allow people living within a mile and a half of a wind turbine to sue for physical or emotional damages caused by living near a turbine.
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Door County Home LEED Platinum Certified
Even on a chilly November afternoon with low temperatures and biting wind, it was balmy inside this new Gills Rock home – and the furnace wasn’t even on.