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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What Makes a Local a Local in Door County?
Every town has its “locals.” In some towns they’re called “old-timers,” in others they might be referred to as “the good old boys.” Sometimes they’re called “natives.” Some people use the words interchangeably and toss them about casually, while others reserve the words for a strictly defined subset of the population. But on a peninsula […]
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“Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.” – Charles Kuralt Astute travelers along Door County’s main highways will notice a recent change. Sometime during the bleak months of winter, clusters of purple wood violets appeared next to the ubiquitous black […]
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• The Beachfront Inn of Baileys Harbor demolished its pool building, which dates to the 1950s, to make room for a new, more attractive, and more energy-efficient pool and structure.
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• Wisconsin Commerce Secretary Paul Jadin will be the keynote speaker at The Door County Economic Development Corporation’s annual investor’s meeting Wednesday, May 25.
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Waterfront Park Takes Shape in Sister Bay
A new wooden boardwalk has been put in place along the waterfront where Al Johnson’s Butik used to stand in Sister Bay. Demolition work at the site is complete, and the village is now landscaping the area to complete the expanded Waterfront Park.
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Sister Bay Modifies Sign Ordinances
The Village of Sister Bay has modified its sign ordinance to relax restrictions on businesses, including changes that give owners of large buildings much greater flexibility in designing signage.
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Community Garden Plots Available
The Sister Bay Community Garden has plots available for use this growing season. The garden is located at the Sister Bay Sports Complex by the long-term marina parking.
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“The key to building a global economy that can sustain economic progress is creating a market that tells the ecological truth. We create this by restructuring the tax system: reducing taxes on work and raising those on carbon emissions and other environmentally destructive activities.”
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21: Million tons, the decline in paper consumption in the United States since 2000
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Door to Door Local Harvest C.S.A. Switches Hands
Door to Door Local Harvest C.S.A., opened by Corrine Lea in 2009 in Northern Door, has recently changed hands. The Laurent family, Matthew and Tonya and their four children, purchased Door to Door and plans to run it with the same motto: “Local food delivered to your door.”
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The Hereafter Now: A Digital Vault for Storing Memories
“When I first came up with the idea seven or eight years ago,” said Leif Erickson, “I started with my grandfather’s pictures of Horseshoe Bay Farms.” Among them was a black and white 16-mm home movie documenting the 1931 burial of Chief Kahquados (last hereditary chief of the Potawatomi nation) near the memorial totem-type pole in Peninsula Park, footage that included the ceremony, the audience, and the automobiles.
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County’s Most Famous Roof Gets a Facelift
The famous grass on the roof of Al Johnson’s is coming off – temporarily. After 38 years, the roof has sprung a few leaks and needs replacing, but as co-owner Rolf Johnson discovered, this isn’t your normal roofing job.
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Visitor Spending Up 1 Percent in 2010
In spite of the still sputtering national economy, tourism spending in Door County held steady in 2010, according to the state’s annual economic impact survey.
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Inside the RePulse
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RePulse: Ask A Fish Creek Party Legend
In each issue, we get solutions to the state’s biggest problems from a Fish Creek Party Legend.
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RePulse: Invisible Fish Creek Man Not Actually Invisible
A 47 year-old Fish Creek man was shocked by friends Tuesday when they broke the news to him that he’s not invisible. Since he was 15, Jason Swarthson believed he had the ability to cloak himself with invisibility after watching the 1992 movie Memoirs of an Invisible Man.
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RePulse: Sister Bay Welcomes Young Couple
Sister Bay, Wisconsin’s oldest community, welcomed a new young couple to the community Saturday. The Kroenkes recently moved to Sister Bay from Iowa, where John, 58, and Sarah, 61, were professors at Drake University.
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RePulse: Door County News Briefs
Coffee Shop Hipster Thinks He’s Better Than You EPHRAIM, WI—Area hipster Nicholas Easton, whose tussled blond hair, disarming sense of humor, and nonconformist worldview are all completely ironic, totally thinks he’s better than you are.
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RePulse: Governor Leases Peninsula State Park for $1.1 Billion
EPHRAIM, WI — At a press conference Monday, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker announced an agreement to lease Peninsula State Park to a New York-based fund in a 99-year, $1.1 billion deal. The lease is aimed at helping to close the state’s projected $3.6 billion budget deficit for 2012-13. Luxury-Tech LLC, an infrastructure investment fund managed […]