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  • Expanded Early Trout Season Announced

    An expanded early trout season that opens Jan. 2 will give Wisconsin anglers one more reason to love winter. While ice fishing will still rule the day on most inland waters, rivers and streams with strong groundwater flows should be open and ready to greet anglers interested in catching and releasing trout. The expanded early […]

  • Great Lakes Memoir Released from WHS Press

    Set course for a Great Lakes adventure with author Ann Lewis. Whether she was sailing through storms or star gazing on calmer waters, her childhood was far from ordinary. For Lewis, the thawing and freezing of the Great Lakes signaled something special – the beginning and end of the shipping season, months of waiting that […]

  • Dr. John Dovrary Wins Stickelback Dory

    Dr. John Dovrary was thrilled upon receiving word of winning the grand prize in this year’s Door County Maritime Museum boat raffle which was drawn Oct. 11 at Pumpkin Patch Festival in Egg Harbor. This year’s vessel was a sleek Stickelback Dory, long and lean sail-rowing craft. Volunteer instructors Bob Schottmuller, David Morgan, and Jerry […]

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    Maritime Museum to Introduce Interactive Displays into Exhibits

    The Door County Maritime Museum recently announced an exciting educational program to have widespread appeal to all ages, and the extensive use of highly interactive electronic displays. New technologies will engage and educate visitors who will enjoy using touchscreens to explore numerous exhibits of the region’s incredible maritime heritage. Virtual storytellers will greet visitors and […]

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    Maritime Museum Remembers “Edmund Fitzgerald” in New Exhibit

    The Door County Maritime Museum commemorates the 40th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald with an exhibit in the Reddin Bridge Room of the Sturgeon Bay museum. The exhibit will open Oct. 21 and continue through Nov. 10. It will be taken down for a month while the museum conducts its Merry-Time Festival […]

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    Silent Sports Column: Bilateral Breathing

    I might be the last person qualified to give advice on swimming technique. In the winter of my freshman year in college I could hardly swim one length of the pool without hanging on the wall and gasping for breath. I taught myself how to swim and while I won’t denounce the drive and determination […]

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    Eagle Bluff Lighthouse Closes for Season Oct. 23

    The Door County Historical Society’s interpretive site, Eagle Bluff Lighthouse Museum will close for the 2015 season at the end of day Friday, Oct. 23. “It was a wonderful summer and fall,” said Patti Podgers, museum curator. “Our guests were delightful and we enjoyed everyone who participated in a tour or stopped by with a […]

  • Actors imitate William and Julia Duclon on duty at Eagle Bluff Lighthouse Museum.

    Visit Eagle Bluff Lighthouse After Dark

    As night descends over the Door Peninsula, the lamp is lit at Eagle Bluff Lighthouse. And as its beam brightens the night sky, the voices of past keepers whisper in the dark, their stories echoing in the dark. For the next two weekends, the Door County Historical Society invites guests to step back in time […]

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    Great Lakes Islands Added to Green Bay National Wildlife Refuge

    The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and The Nature Conservancy announced the expansion of the Green Bay National Wildlife Refuge to include most of St. Martin Island and all of Rocky Island in Lake Michigan, adding another 1,290 acres to the 330-acre refuge. The islands are part of the Grand Traverse chain, which extends from […]

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    Learn Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal History at Historical Society Program

    During the Door County Historical Society’s Sept. 27 program at Heritage Village at Big Creek, Captain Bob Desh will explore the creation of the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal. The Ship Canal was an 18-year long and arduous process beginning with a Wisconsin charter in 1864, the first dirt scooped in 1872, the meeting of Sturgeon […]

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    Spaces Filling Fast for Chambers Island Tour

    One tour is already sold out, but another has space remaining for the Door County Maritime Museum’s first Fall Lighthouse Festival weekend. An abbreviated version of the popular Lighthouse Festival in June, the Door County Maritime Museum is offering a couple of its most popular tours Columbus Day weekend. These fantastic nautical adventures will take […]

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    Paddling in the Shadow of Behemoths

    By Tim Sweet On the morning of Sunday, Sept. 6, my brother- and sister-in-law joined me on a paddle around Sturgeon Bay. We launched our kayaks at Bullhead Point, which is directly across from Bay Shipbuilding. Cruising by the huge vessels in our tiny kayaks really made us feel small. The Mississippi is an oil […]

  • Circumnavigating Northern Door By Kayak

    By Tom Schemberger I have been fortunate to experience Door County in many ways – from the cockpit of boats both power and sail, from the saddle of a bicycle and a Harley, as well as just plain running. To me, the most enjoyable was being comfortably seated in my kayak paddling the shoreline with […]

  • Beer Fest, Bike Ride, Bass Tourney and Cave Tours Make for A Busy Door County Weekend!

    Beer, fishing, bats and bike rides – it’s every outdoors lovers dream weekend in Door County! Here are our top picks for the weekend ahead:

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    Bassmasters, Old Bolts and More at Sturgeon Bay’s Harvest Fest

    The Sturgeon Bay Visitor Center is excited to announce this year’s Harvest Festival and Street Art Auction will be held in partnership with the Toyota Bassmaster Angler of the Year Championship on Sept. 19. All the fun begins at 9 am on Third Avenue with a variety of art and craft vendors as well as […]

  • Wake From Naval Vessel Damages Dozens of Boats Near Chambers Island

    Sarah Bonovich and her family were enjoying the beautiful Labor Day weekend with a boating trip to Chambers Island Saturday, Sept. 5, when a series of waves created by what is about to become the U.S. Navy’s newest combat ship changed their perfect day into a near-nightmare. “I’m on the beach and a wave comes […]

  • All EYC Members On Deck for Season Clean-up

    All Ephraim Yacht Club (EYC) members are requested to help close the EYC beginning at 9 am on Sept. 5. They will be putting away boats and equipment, organizing the house for winter and removing dock equipment. Most projects should be finished before noon. There are jobs for people of all ages, abilities and strengths. The […]

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    Tamara Thomsen Surveys Plum Island Shipwreck

    Wisconsin Historical Society underwater archaeologist Tamara Thomsen was on Plum Island Aug. 22 with a dive team to survey and document the wreck of the Grape Shot, an 1855 schooner that sank in 1867 just off Plum Island’s north shore. Thomsen’s visit aboard the Sea Grant Institute’s research vessel Dawn Treader was arranged in large […]

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    Maritime Museum Offering Chambers Island Tour, Schooner Cruise

    Reacting to the popularity of the Lighthouse Festival each June, the Door County Maritime Museum is offering a couple of its most popular tours Columbus Day weekend. The Chambers Island tour and the Sail Door County Schooner Cruise will be a part of this abbreviated and exciting offering. Two schooner tours out of the Sister […]

  • Casting Colors – The Art of Hooking Fish

    “What those crazy fish see, I don’t know. But it matters.” Todd Haleen is the owner of First Choice Charters in Baileys Harbor and anglers across the county echo his statement. The fishing lure may be the single most important variable between a big haul and driving home with an empty cooler. The science behind […]