Category: General News

I’ve been researching gun violence, gun legislation and gun-related controversy for weeks for my Peninsula Pulse On Target series. I’ve picked apart Wisconsin laws, spent over an hour on the phone with

Tim Sweet was on Washington Island in mid-January for a Friends of Plum and Pilot Islands meeting. He snapped some great pictures of Washington and Rock Islands:

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A former Great Lakes Echo colleague once wrote a column about the cross between invasive species and his “awkward, futile dating life,” called How

As someone who’s not from Door County and who has only been here less than a year, there are some quirks that I still don’t get.

One of them is people who hate on Sturgeon Bay.

I realize it might not

I was on my normal route to Baileys Harbor when I saw it. The Northern Hawk Owl. The bird, which I was told rarely comes this far south, has staked its claim on the intersection of Highways Q and 57.

Last

Yesterday we shared an article about why commercial lending is still so hard to come by, but in this week’s issue we also looked at two lending programs that other communities are using to get small businesses

I never get tired of finding ways to add to the misery of Bears fans, and even though the Packers’ scout team was playing the Lions yesterday, my mind turned to how Matt Flynn’s ridiculous performance

A seemingly minor change to Door County zoning ordinance adopted in April could help with Door County’s seasonal housing shortage.

When the Door County Planning Department updated its comprehensive plan

Since I wrote about my new-found love affair with Twitter in October (“Turning On to Twitter,” Oct. 12), I’ve taken a lot of flack for my decision to jump to the cutting edge of 2006.

Some of this flack

As many of our friends and family begin to make the mass exodus from Door County to find warmer weather, I curl up even more in my apartment and listen to the season change from fall to winter. This is

Sister Bay will hold its annual Fall Fest debate today at a Parks Committee meeting at 3pm.

Representatives from the Sheriff’s Department, Door County Emergency Services, Sister Bay Fire Department and

Reader Sue Krause checked in with a good question after the recent spat of high winds in Door County:

“Northern Door is studded with the corpses of dead Lombardy poplar trees,” she noted, referring to

I tweet now. And I love it.

I did not think I would ever say that. I’m not a fanatic, but I’m a fairly regular tweeter.

Just six months ago I wasn’t even using Twitter, the social

The window on running for medals in Door County is closing fast, but you don’t have to put your racer’s edge in winter storage quite yet. There are still a few opportunities to pound the pavement in organized

For the last three decades American high school education has been judged almost solely on college prep, from the Presidential level on down to the kitchen table. Yet still less than 35 percent of Americans

For years business and civic leaders in Door County have lamented the lack of quality year ’round jobs in the community. When the topic comes up, inevitably the conversation turns to wishful thinking

In our childhood days my friends and I often found ourselves wondering why so many visitors flocked to our hometown. We didn’t know any place else, and this place didn’t seem all that special. It was