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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.

  • Brynn Swanson Markets Baileys Harbor

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    Brynn Swanson may be enjoying a drink at the Cornerstone on a Friday night, but she’s hard at work. About once a month, Swanson leads community conversations where Baileys Harbor residents can stop by for a drink and chat about their ideas for the town.

  • Linden Centre Selected as One of China/Hong Kong’s Top Luxury Hotels

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    Linden Centre was recently chosen as one of China/Hong Kong’s Top Luxury Hotels (number seven) and Top Service Hotels (number 15) by TripAdvisor in its 2013 Travellers’ Choice® awards.

  • Blue Horse Beach Café Reopens

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    Finally! After much anticipation Blue Horse Beach Café of Fish Creek is excited to announce their reopening, as of Feb. 2. The café is open daily 7 am – 5 pm for coffee, espresso, tea, soup, salad, sandwiches and weekly specials.

  • DCVB’s Insider Experts to Provide Tourist Tips

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    The Door County Visitor Bureau (DCVB) is excited to introduce the new “insider experts” who will blog about Door County in a variety of topics. Michelle Rasmusson, Director of Marketing & Sales, explains rationale behind the insider experts strategy: “With 65 percent of online travelers reading travel-related blogs, it’s important to build awareness, excitement, and demand for Experience Set, Seasonal and Special Interest Markets, which allow travelers to shape their Door County experience to their unique interests.

  • Brian R. Hartl Named to LPL Financial Patriot’s Club

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    Brian R. Hartl, an independent financial advisor at Baylake Investment Services, has been recognized as a top financial advisor for 2012 and named to the LPL Financial Patriot’s Club.

  • Growing Businesses in Door County

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    In support of the Buy Local initiative, Door Landscape & Nursery contacted Peninsula Building Systems to help with a project to add space to their growing business and nursery.

  • Area Residents Earn CTA Designation

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    Seven individuals recently completed the Certified Tourism Ambassador (CTA) Program offered through the Door County Visitor Bureau. These Door County Tourism Ambassadors provide quality service and hospitality to visitors, which can result in longer stays, more visits to restaurants, retailers and attractions.

  • NWTC Announces Open Positions on District Board of Trustees

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    Northeast Wisconsin Technical College is currently accepting applications for three open positions on the NWTC District Board of Trustees. Appointees will serve three-year terms beginning July 1.

  • Dr. Luke Staudenmaier Earns C.C.S.T. Credentials

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    Doctor Luke Staudenmaier recently completed a sequence of requirements for credentialing with the Chiropractic Certification in Spinal Trauma (C.C.S.T.).

  • Fish Creek’s Silly Olympics Are Here Again

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    In winter, Door County largely takes a break from being Door County, the vacation destination that everybody and their rich uncle is dying to get to. There are visitors, there are people, there is most definitely life.

  • Q&A with Dan Austad

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    In 1959, a high school senior named Dan Austad got his first taste of government when he was sent by his school to serve on a local committee (“Quite frankly I don’t even remember what it was,” says Austad.

  • Sturgeon Bay Approves Four-Story Apartment Building

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    At a special Jan. 29 session, the Sturgeon Bay Common Council gave preliminary approval to a proposed 42-unit, four-story apartment building that would be built on the corner of 2nd Ave.

  • Stitching While Studying

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    For the last five years, Gibraltar Middle School Social Studies teacher Lauren Mittermann has been the ringleader of an underground movement. Known as “Mitter’s Knitters,” the informal club now consists of about 40 seventh and eighth grade students who usually get together during lunch or after school to chat and piece together hats, socks, scarves, or blankets.

  • Coming Up

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    • The Lakeshore Natural Resource Partnership is accepting nominations for its 2013 Champions of Conservation Awards. The environmental award program recognizes and honors the outstanding achievements of any group, program, organization, business or individual in a wide range of environmental initiatives throughout Northeastern Wisconsin.

  • What Happened?

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    • The Southern Door School Board approved a resolution to place a three-year, $3.08 million non-recurring revenue limit override referendum on the ballot this April.

  • On Target – Gun Legislation

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    This article is part of On Target, a three-part series on guns and violence in America. A past article on school safety can be found on ppulse.com or in Peninsula Pulse volume 19, issue 2.

  • Waters End Road First Heritage Road in Liberty Grove

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    After years of work by citizen groups, committees and the town board a segment of Waters End Road became the first Heritage Road in Liberty Grove. “We now have a program and we now have a road, and I hope in the next few months more roads will be nominated,” said Mike Bahrke, highway committee member and former heritage roads subcommittee chair.

  • Pushing Back on Climate Change

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    Organize, organize, organize. That, according to environmental activist Bill McKibben, is the most important thing you can do to fight climate change.

  • USS Guardian Runs Aground

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    USS Guardian Runs Aground Near the Philippines

  • New Doctor of Chiropractic Joins Father in Business

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    Peninsula Chiropractic Center Inc. of Sturgeon Bay welcomes Dr. Levi R. Arnold to the practice. Dr. Arnold is a graduate of Sturgeon Bay High School, and recently graduated as a Doctor of Chiropractic from Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa.