Turnout in the village of Ephraim reached 89% in 2020. Photo by Myles Dannhausen Jr. If history repeats and Door County voters have called the presidential election as they have seven times straight since 1996, Kamala Harris will be the next president of the United States. That’s of course not official – there was a … Read more
Fewer hot days, with a wet start and dry finish to the season by the WISCONSIN STATE CLIMATOLOGY OFFICE This year’s meteorological summer (June through August) featured temperatures very close to normal throughout Wisconsin and Door County (where referenced in this summary, Door County climate data are from the Sturgeon Bay observation station). Hot weather was … Read more
Oct. 22, 1931 – Oct. 18, 2024 Margaret Emma (Borgardt) Loving was a longtime, beloved kindergarten teacher’s aide who left an inestimable community legacy by nurturing many hundreds of Northern Door County students in their most formative school years. She died peacefully of natural causes, at age 92, on Friday, Oct. 18, 2024, in Sister … Read more
Feb. 9, 1926 – Sept. 9, 2024 Richard Lee Shappell, 98 of Glidden Drive, Sturgeon Bay, died Monday, Sept. 9, 2024, at Jack and Engrid Meng Unity Hospice Facility in De Pere. Richard was born Feb. 9, 1926, in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, the only child of Herbert and Alice (Sullivan) Shappell. He graduated from Phillipsburg … Read more
Artists at work in PenArt’s new Tourtelot Studio in 2023. Photo by xoMe studio. A look inside Peninsula School of Art’s ongoing renovations When Peninsula School of Art launched its Door to Creativity (DTC) capital campaign in 2018, the plan was to raise $6.5 million for major campus renovations. The pandemic had other plans. When … Read more
