What’s Coming Up in Door County?

• Household hazardous waste collection programs will take place on Nov. 2, 3:30 – 5:30 pm, at the Sister Bay/Liberty Grove Fire Station in Sister Bay, and on Nov. 3, 8 – 10:30 am at the Door County Highway Department in Sturgeon Bay.

Bring materials like paint thinner, polishes, aerosol cans, fertilizer, pool chemicals and others. Do not bring latex paint, radio-actives, explosives, biological, tires, oil, automobile batteries, prescription medicines, ammunition, commercial waste or computer components.

• School districts in Door and Kewaunee counties will change insurance providers in 2013. According to a release issued by the Door Kewaunee Health Insurance Purchasing Co-operative, the districts’ move from WEA Trust to United Healthcare will save the districts close to $2 million without changing the design of their insurance plans.

• The Northern Door Fire Exploratory Committee will discuss what a budget for a combined district would look like Oct. 30 at the Sister Bay Fire Station.

“We’re trying to get everyone’s 2012 budget and start with a base number of what everyone spent last year,” said Chris Hecht, chief of the Sister Bay/Liberty Grove and Gibraltar departments.

The committee will also begin looking at creating the structure for a Fire Board and Joint Fire Commission that would oversee the district.

• The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is hosting a series of public listening sessions on Wisconsin Act 168, which expands hunting and trapping in state parks. Attendees will be able to review maps designating areas the board proposes to keep open and closed to hunting and comment about the implementation of the law.

The closest meeting to Door County will be Nov. 8 at The Bordini Center at Fox Valley Technical College, 5 Systems Drive, Appleton.