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• Door County room tax collection grew by 6.4 percent in 2012, with a total collection of $3,485,070.

• The Town of Washington received a $2,800 grant from Northeast Wisconsin Technical College toward hosting a workforce advancement welding class for island welders. It is not an open enrollment class. Corrected from print edition.

• MaryKay Shumway has left her position as Liberty Grove town board supervisor. She moved from Liberty Grove to the Village of Sister Bay and can no longer serve on the town board.

“It wasn’t a matter of stepping down, it was a matter of relocation,” Shumway said.

Shumway won her supervisor position with a coin toss in April 2012.

Robert Tidball stepped down from the town board in November last year.

Shumway will stay on the economic sustainability committee. Her seat on the plan commission was replaced by Michael Mercier. Her seat on the town board will remain empty until after the April election, where three candidates are running for two open board seats. After the election, the new board members will choose a candidate to fill the remaining open seat.

• The Door County Board of Supervisors voted Feb. 26 to increase the maximum height of wireless internet service towers from 75 ft. to 125 ft. According to a letter submitted to the board by Door County Computer, increasing the height of service towers will allow 95 percent of the peninsula to be covered by wireless internet.