Category: Podcasts
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PODCAST: An Emergency of its Own at the 911 Call Center
Dan Kane, Door County Director of Emergency Management and Communications, talks with Pulse editor Debra Fitzgerald about the critical employee shortage at the county’s 24-7 dispatch operation that receives about 50,000 calls for help annually, and what the county is doing to attract and retain employees while filling the gaps in the short-term.
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PODCAST: 60 Years of Door County Real Estate
The real estate market has changed quite a bit since the Door County Board of Realtors (DCBR) was first founded 60 years ago. Debra Fitzgerald talks with Mary Kay Shumway, DCBR treasurer, and Jeff Isaksen, DCBR president, about the past, present and future of Door County real estate.
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PODCAST: Resorter Summers with Tom Groenfeldt
Tom Groenfeldt has written about the arts, business and technology for the Peninsula Pulse, but he got his start in Door County many years earlier as an intern for the Resorter Reporter. He talks to Myles Dannhausen Jr. about his stint as Chan Harris’s roving summer photography intern whose job was to capture scenes for […]
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PODCAST: Hal Prize Winners Announced
The fiction, nonfiction, poetry and photography winners of the Pulse’s annual Hal Prize have been released in this year’s 8142 Literary Review, which is hot off the press and available now. Grace Johnson, editor of the literary review, talks with Pulse editor Debra Fitzgerald about this year’s contest winners (a local writer won the fiction category), the […]
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PODCAST: Talking Law Enforcement with Sheriff Sternard
Door County Sheriff Tammy Sternard talks with Debra Fitzgerald about the county’s largest, tax-levy-supported department and how they enforce the law, use community policing, respond to increasing mental health call challenges, manage the jail population, and find the employees they need for Door County’s public safety sector.
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PODCAST: Door County’s Civic Leaders
Susan Kohout and Ann Morgan with the League of Women Voters of Door County sits down with Debra Fitzgerald to talk about the organization’s nonpartisan work to inspire civic involvement and education, and how they’re recruiting the next generation of civic leaders who are so important to local communities and to the health of a […]
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PODCAST: The Many Sides of Fall Fest
Myles Dannhausen Jr. and Andrew Kleidon talk upcoming Halloween events, Fall 50 runners, and last week’s improv show at Peach Barn. Plus, they recap a Fall Fest weekend that has become much more than crowds and drinking, Dannhausen says.
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PODCAST: Discovering Door County with Sam Watson
Andrew Kleidon is joined by Pulse reporter Sam Watson to talk about journalism, discovering Door County through writing, and how Watson tackles news reporting versus arts and entertainment writing.