Road Paving and Scenic Byways

Welcome to the Notes from the Grove, providing Liberty Grove residents and visitors tid bits of information about goings on in town government.

• The asphalt road paving for the season has been completed. Chipsealing is next, but the exact schedule is yet to be determined. Chipsealing is estimated to provide paved roads with another five to seven years of use before major repairs need to be done. The Town Crew also does regular patching maintenance on asphalt roads. The crew also does brushing and grass mowing along the roads on a continuous basis.

• Property taxes due July 31 cannot be accepted at the Town Office but must be mailed directly to the Door County Treasurer.

• The town has received word that the funds set aside by Congress specifically for the America’s Byways Resource Center, which assists and distributes funds to the Scenic Byways Program will not be distributed to the resource center and instead have already been redistributed to various states. The center had anticipated using those funds to continue their work into calendar years 2012 and 2013. The Byways Resource Center is funded 100 percent by federal funds from FHWA. At this time we are not sure how this will affect the new Door County Scenic Byway. The resource center has been instrumental in writing grants for this area’s Scenic Byways.

• The town is now operating the launch ramp at Rowley’s Bay. The Parks and Properties Sub-Committee will begin work on plans for the Town Park at that area.

• The Highway Committee selected Bud Kalms and Anne Miller to serve on the newly created Sub-Committee for Heritage Roads.

• Reminder that the Shred Fest and Computer and Appliance Recycling will take place August 6. The Summer Listening Session is scheduled for August 11. Details for both are available on the town website.

• The tracings at Table Bluff depicting the scene of a violent storm with Indians scaling the rocks were painted red by Charles Schulten, who lived in one of the houses on top of the bluff, to preserve the ancient tradition. It is believed to have been done around 1856. The scene depicted the battle that gave rise to the name of Death’s Door.