DOOR COUNTY NEWSWIRE

Door County Wellness Festival Features Diverse Line-Up

You’re invited to join us for a 3-day Door County retreat filled with opportunities to get inspired, go explore and feel renewed. Connect with practitioners of natural wellness for a diverse offering of experiences to deepen awareness of mindfulness, yoga, […]

Public Tree Planting in Ellison Bay on May 4

The public is invited to join the Climate Change Coalition of Door County (CCCDC), the Forest Recovery Project (FRP), and the Nature Conservancy (TNC) in an all-hands-on-deck tree planting in Ellison Bay from 10 am to 3 pm May 4. […]

Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Tugboat John Purves

The entire Door County community is invited to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the historic tug John Purves at 11am on Wednesday, May 1 at the Door County Maritime Museum in Sturgeon Bay. The event will include the US Army Color Guard, the national […]

Björklunden to Host a Joint Concert on Sunday, April 21

Lawrence University’s Björklunden will host a Joint Concert on Sunday, April 21, 2019 at 1:30pm. Friends and Members of the Sinfonia/SAI House are spending a final weekend at Bjorklunden with their graduating seniors, many with recitals coming up this Spring […]

Birch Creek 2019 Season Concerts Available Now

Birch Creek Music Performance Center is excited to announce that tickets for the 2019summer concert season are available for purchase at birchcreek.org/tickets. On June 20, the Percussion & Steel Bandsession will open the 2019 Birch Creek concert season with “Beginnings: […]

81th Annual Sister Bay Ice Out Contest Winners

Congratulations to the winners of the 81st Annual Sister Bay Ice Out Contest. This year, the ice started floating away at 6:28 pm on Thursday, April 11, in the middle of a 9” snow fall. Thank you to our participating businesses […]

DCMM Presenting at CAMM Conference

The Door County Maritime Museum (DCMM) is a proud member of the Council of American Maritime Museums (CAMM), an association of more than 80 institutions working toward the preservation and interpretation of North America’s maritime heritage. The 2019 CAMM Annual […]

Encore Presentation of Door County Short Film Fest in Ellison Bay on April 19-20

Door County North, the business association for the Town of Liberty Grove has announced that an Encore Presentation of the 10th Annual Door County Short Film Fest be presented at the Mink River Basin on Friday, April 19 and Saturday, […]

Birch Creek Summer Concert Tickets on Sale

Birch Creek Music Performance Center is excited to announce that tickets for the 2019 summer concert season are available for purchase at birchcreek.org/tickets. On June 20, the Percussion & Steel Band session will open the 2019 Birch Creek concert season […]

Mile Twelve to Perform at White Gull Inn

Mile Twelve, a bluegrass band based in Boston, will be featured in concert at the White Gull Inn in Fish Creek on Wednesday, May 1. Tickets for the 8 pm concert are $22. The Mile Twelve lineup offers five of […]

Baileys Harbor Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday, April 20

The hunt is on! You’re invited t0 the Baileys Harbor Town Hall for meet and greet with the Easter Bunny and to participate in an Easter Egg Hunt. The egg hunt will begin at 10am on Saturday, April 20. The Easter […]

‘The Gentleman Thief’ Raises the Room with Laughter

Peninsula Players Theatre presented a reading of “The Gentleman Thief,” a new romantic comedy-caper by award-winning playwright Mark Brown, on Monday, April 1 at Björklunden. Based on a story by P.G. Wodehouse, the creator of such comic characters as Bertie Wooster […]

Vance Gilbert in Concert at Lost Moth Gallery April 13

Vance Gilbert will be performing at Lost Moth Gallery on Saturday, April 13. This iconic performer burst onto the Singer/songwriter scene in the early 90’s when buzz started spreading in the folk clubs of Boston about an ex-multicultural arts teacher who […]

Midsummer’s Music Celebrating 29 Years of Extraordinary Chamber Music in Door County

Presenting concerts hailed as “exciting, pulse-pounding and riveting,” Midsummer’s Music of Door County, Wisconsin, announces its 2019 concert season with Mendelssohn, Mozart, and More! Midsummer’s Music provides unique and diverse cultural, historical, and scenic musical experiences. The season, running June […]

Third Annual Ellison Bay Easter Egg Hunt

The third annual Ellison Bay Easter Egg Hunt will be held at Fitzgerald Park at the corner of Garrett Bay Road and Old School Road in Ellison Bay. The hunt will be held at 12pm on the Saturday before Easter, […]

2019 Door County Plein Air Festival: July 21-27, 2019

The Door County Plein Air Festival, presented by Peninsula School of Art in Fish Creek, reliably celebrates the tradition of outdoor painting with some of the finest painters from Door County and across the U.S. Widely considered the Midwest’s premier outdoor painting event, […]

Plum Bottom Gallery’s ‘Think Spring Ikebana Show’

Plum Bottom Gallery is thinking of Spring with their Think Spring Ikebana Show on Saturday, April 13 from 10-4. Featuring hand thrown ikebana by resident porcelain potter, Chad Luberger, along with a demonstration of ikebana floral arranging by Plum Bottom […]

Annual Sister Bay Village-Wide Rummage Sale

There’s still plenty of snow on the ground, but spring is right around the corner! Soon it will be time for spring cleaning, and it’s the perfect time to get ready for the annual Sister Bay Village-Wide Rummage Sale. The […]

Tickets Available to 2019 Door County Lighthouse Festivals

Tickets are now on sale for both the 2019 Door County Spring and Fall Lighthouse Festivals, June 7-9 and October 12-13. Each festival is comprised of land-based, boat, and adventure tours that together reach all eleven of the historic lighthouses […]

Sister Bay Hosts Annual Easter Egg Hunt April 20

Get your picture taken with The Easter Bunny at the 12th Annual Sister Bay Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday, April 20, at 10:30 am. Hunt for colorful eggs with candy inside at Waterfront Park in downtown Sister Bay. Find a Golden […]

Bulbs and Bugs Programs at Crossroads

It will definitely be spring at Crossroads this week, at least on their Lecture Hall screen. On Tuesday, April 9 and Thursday, April 11 (7:00pm), Master Gardeners will bring Mark Konlock, Director of Horticulture at the Green Bay Botanical Garden […]

TAP Opens Season Next Week with ‘Shooting Star’

Third Avenue Playhouse opens the 2019 season with Shooting Star, written by American playwright Steven Dietz. The play has a simple plot: two college lovers, Elena Carson (Amy Ensign) and Reed McAllister (Doug Mancheski), are unexpectedly reunited when they’re snowed […]

Casting Announced for Northern Sky Theater’s 2019 Summer Season

Northern Sky Theater announces its acting company for the 2019 Summer Season in Door County, Wisconsin. Northern Sky’s summer season includes three musical comedies playing in rotating repertory from June 12 through August 24 at the outdoor amphitheater in Peninsula […]

Local Door County Author Releases Fifth Historical Romance Novel

On March 27, 2019, local Door County resident and author, Katherine Hastings, released her latest romance novel. The Arch Pirate blends fact with fiction in this 17th century historical romance. Based on the real-life pirate Captain Henry Avery, Hastings crafted […]

Southern Door Open Audition Call for ‘Little Shop of Horrors’

The Southern Door Community Auditorium is proud to announce the re-birth of tjhe Door County community musical with the upcoming production of Little Shop of Horrors July 19-21, 2019. This is a call to performers to audition at one […]

Door County Environmental Council Lecture: Safe Lawns

The folks at Crossroads at Big Creek are enthusiastic fans of science. They make a big deal about trying to base their decisions on scientific data. Recently there was a radio report about a lawsuit against Monsanto and the difficulty […]

‘The Play’s the Thing’ Concludes with ‘The Gentleman Thief’

“When you are discovered by a householder–with revolver–in his parlor at half-past three in the morning, it is surely an injudicious move to lay stress on your proficiency as a burglar. The householder may be supposed to take that for […]

Tree Planting Collaborations Celebrate Earth Day

Here’s an item for your next round of Door County Nature Trivia: How many trees have the Climate Change Coalition of Door County (CCCDC) and partner organizations planted in the county since 2016? The answer is an astonishing 10,000-plus. For […]

Door County Honored with Three Awards at Wisconsin Governor’s Tourism Conference

Door County recipients were honored with three awards during the Governor’s Tourism Awards Banquet at the Wisconsin Governor’s Conference on Tourism on March 19, 2019. Each year Wisconsin’s tourism industry honors five Governor’s Tourism Awards recipients at the Wisconsin Governor’s […]

2019 St. Patrick’s Day Parade Award Winners

The 26th annual Sturgeon Bay St. Patrick’s Day Parade took place Saturday, March 16, 2019 at 11am with over 30 participating businesses and organizations. The award for best business entry was received by Bay Shore Outfitters for their creative float and […]

Ben Bedford in Concert at Lost Moth Gallery March 24

Lost Moth Gallery welcomes Ben Bedford in concert, performing songs off his new CD, The Hermit’s Spy Glass. Bedford establishes himself as a songwriter in the tradition of musical icons ranging from Bill Morrissey to Woody Gutherie, casting individual people in […]

Humane Society Hosts Bottle Baby Open House, Volunteer Info Session

Bottle Baby Open House Wednesday, April 3 from 1 – 2 pm The Wisconsin Humane Society is hosting open houses for those interested in fostering “bottle baby” kittens. Bottle babies are orphaned, neonatal kittens too young to eat solid food on their […]

Midsummer’s Music Presents the Griffon String Quartet in Concert

The Griffon String Quartet will perform at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Ephraim on Friday, March 15. The quartet is the result of a collaboration between Midsummer’s Music Ltd. in Door County, the Fine Arts Institute at East High in […]

2019 Festival of Nature at The Ridges

Registration for the 17th annual Festival of Nature begins on Monday, March 18 at 10:00am sharp. This event is held Memorial Day weekend, May 24-26 and features more than 60 programs, including birding, biking, hiking and paddling experiences. Explore Door County and […]

Plum Bottom Gallery’s Demo Day Featuring Chad Luberger

Don’t miss Plum Bottom Gallery’s latest Demo Day featuring resident porcelain artist Chad Luberger on Saturday March 24! Catch Luberger behind the wheel between 10:30-12:00 creating one of a kind hand thrown ceramics and see his newest collection on display […]

“Tales of Men and Ghosts” Enthrall Audience with its Spooky Tales

Peninsula Players Theatre presented a reading of “Tales of Men and Ghosts” adapted by Steve Pickering from stories by Edith Wharton on Monday, March 4 to a capacity crowd at Björklunden. “It was thrilling to hear audible reactions from the […]

Singer-Songwriter Susan Gibson to Perform at White Gull Inn

Singer-songwriter Susan Gibson will be featured in concert at the White Gull Inn in Fish Creek on Weds., March 27. Tickets for the 8 pm concert are $22. A Minnesota native, Gibson is a Wimberley, TX-based singer-songwriter who has released four […]

Door County Coffee & Tea Co. to Be Seen on Manufacturing Marvels®

An artisan coffee-roaster for more than 25 years, Door County Coffee & Tea Co., is excited to announce that their roasting facility will be showcased on Manufacturing Marvels® on the Fox Business Network on Wednesday, March 13, 2019. Produced by […]

DCMM Announces 2019 Door County Lighthouse Festival Tours

The Door County Maritime Museum is pleased to announce the tour line-up for the 2019 Door County Spring and Fall Lighthouse Festivals, June 7-9 and October 12-13. Exciting additions to the Festivals this year include adventurous kayak excursions to view […]

Celebrate County Door at the St. Patrick’s Day Parade on March 16

The Sturgeon Bay Visitor Center, Kitty O’Reillys Irish Pub, and Door County Medical Center present the 26th annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Come celebrate County Door by watching the St. Patrick’s Day Parade throughout the streets of Sturgeon Bay on March […]