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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Orchard Country Winery & Market Receive Medals from Tasters Guild International Wine Competition
Orchard Country Winery & Market is an award winner in this year’s Tasters Guild International Wine Competition, held May 1 – 4 in Grand Rapids, Mich. Orchard Country Winery received silver medals for its Lauren Elizabeth, Pear, Black Cherry and Cherry Blossom wines.
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Grasse’s Grill Thanks Door County Volunteers with Monthly Drawing
Jessica and Jimmy Grasse of Grasse’s Grill would like to thank volunteers who make Door County a great place to live. Stop by Grasse’s Grill and enter your name and nonprofit for a monthly drawing.
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Mojo Rosa’s Hosts Beer Pairing Party to Benefit United Way
Mojo Rosa’s in Egg Harbor will host a beer pairing dinner on June 14, 5 – 9 pm, and the United Way of Door County will be the featured charity for the event.
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A little more than a year since it opened, the Wickman House in Ellison Bay has fulfilled its calling. “Our whole mission behind opening this restaurant was to be a bar-centric restaurant that was focused on service-oriented, farm-to-table food,” said Mike Holmes, co-owner of the restaurant.
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TaDa! Campaign Sets Heady Goal for Animal Shelter
At the end of this month, everyone involved with the Door County Humane Society hopes to utter a collective “TaDa!”
It will mean the Take Action for Deserving Animals capital campaign (or TaDa! Campaign) has met its goal of raising the final $500,000 by the end of June of the $1.
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Beachfront Inn in Baileys Harbor is Focus of Hotel Impossible
Tammy Bork promised herself she would not cry when Anthony Melchiorri, host of the Travel Channel’s Hotel Impossible,came to her Beachfront Inn in Baileys Harbor from May 31 to June 3 for a little reality TV tough love.
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DOT Details Highway 42 Rebuild
Sister Bay will be calling on Sven the Goat to help people navigate detours during next year’s troublesome but much needed improvements to State Highway 42.
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Door County Golfer Profile: Jeff Schartner
Jeff Schartner’s favorite golf memory is playing on a PGA-level golf course in Florida.
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The 5th Pink Classic Golf Tournament took place at Horseshoe Bay Golf Club this past Sunday, June 2. Temperatures were cool, but that didn’t stop 31 teams from turning out for the day to raise money for breast cancer awareness and prevention.
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Results from recent golf leagues.
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Golfing events around the county.
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Your Representatives in the News
State Assembly Representative Garey Bies
In February, Bies introduced Assembly Bill 16, which would create a 10 percent tax credit for the cost of advertising a Wisconsin lodging establishment outside the state.
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Sister Bay Downtown Development Discussed Again
Sister Bay could be just a few weeks away from adopting a downtown redevelopment plan. The Sister Bay Economic Development Committee met on May 30 to hear Jolena Presti of Vandewalle & Associates, the consulting firm hired to create the village’s downtown redevelopment plan, present another draft.
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On June 5, Alex Lensert, 13 years old, and his father Duke set out on The Ride for Bo – a ride inspired by Alex’s classmate Bo Johnson. The bicycle ride is a 700-mile venture across the state intended to raise money and awareness for childhood leukemia.
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Mary Donaldson knew she wanted to be a teacher at age 5. And she did – she grew up, got a degree, became a teacher and loved it. But when she went to Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota for her master’s degree, her professor and mentor told her she was in the wrong program.
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Three Weeks Left of Sturgeon Bay Bridge Detour
• If you’ve been frustrated by the Sturgeon Bay detours during the Bayview Bridge repair project, hang on because there are only three weeks left of detouring through the city.
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Gibraltar School District Hired Nine New Employees
• The Ephraim Village Board rescinded Harbor Construction’s dredging contract. The channel in Eagle Harbor is sufficiently deep – between three and five feet deep throughout.
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Increasing walkability means different things to different people. For the city planner, it means creating safe routes around town for people on foot.
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Heritage Village at Big Creek: A Living Legacy to Door County’s Early Settlers
Following in the tradition of the early farmers who scattered seeds in hopes of a bountiful harvest, the founders of Heritage Village at Big Creek planted the idea of a historical village.
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Door County Acupuncturist Returns from Nepal
Alison Beadell, licensed acupuncturist and owner of Wood Rabbit Acupuncture & Herbal Medicine, LLC, has recently returned from a World Healing Exchange in Nepal in conjunction with Acupuncturists Without Borders (AWB).