Local swimmer, Margaret Carroll, swam across Death’s Door on Sunday, August 22, while raising $500 for the Door County YMCA.Carroll set out from Northport very early in the morning and swam the 4 miles across to Washington Island, stopping midway to take a break near Pilot Island. Mike Boryk accompanied her in his boat during [ ... ] ...
OnMilwaukee.com Publisher Andy Tarnoff and his old friend, Eron Laber, have taken a nearly identical weekend trip to Door County for the past 16 years. For their 17th, they decided to stay in a hotel, eat some good meals and travel like adults. Here's their guide to taking a more refined vacation to their favorite peninsula.
WASHINGTON At the start of the latest congressional, U.S. Rep. Dave Obey, D-Wausau, once again called for the elimination of special-interest money in political campaigns and reintroduced legislation to establish a public financing system ...
WASHINGTON The largest U.S. tobacco maker is asking the Supreme Court to throw out court rulings holding that the industry illegally concealed the dangers of cigarette smoking ...
WASHINGTON Government safety officials are recalling drop-side cribs sold at Buy Buy Baby, Kmart, Wal-Mart and other stores after the death of three infants ...
DE PERE Gwen Ifill, journalist, author and moderator of PBS Washington Week, will deliver the spring commencement address May 16 at St. Norbert College ...
“Dick Purinton has many great stories to tell. Come listen. Enjoy,” says Door County author and publisher Norbert Blei.For many decades the Washington Island ferry has been crossing through Death’s Door in the gusty, wet and wild days of late November and December. Author, blogger and ferryman, Dick Purinton will talk about his life and [ ... ] ...
LI Deaths: Cynthia Martin, 53, Sturgeon Bay William Tassoul, 87, Brussels Lester Olson, 80, Sister Bay Charles Strege, 74, Sturgeon Bay Barth Rizzo, 87, Kewaunee John Taube, 72, Sturgeon Bay Mary Bennett, formerly of Sturgeon Bay, Albany, La. Lee Nolan, 79, Sturgeon Bay and Alma Ellefson, 80, Washington Island ...
Jazz musicians and Birch Creek faculty members Reggie Thomas and Rick Haydon Meet with Door County students on November 19 and 20.“Artists in the Schools” is an outreach program that reaches as many as 400 Door County public school students annually with Birch Creek faculty members visiting instrumental music classrooms and conducting two-hour seminars. They [ ... ] ...
A packed house at Washington Park Senior Center bore witness Monday night to a litany of impassioned pleas made to 19 mostly silent Milwaukee County supervisors to save programs threatened by next year's unusually tough budget ...