DOOR COUNTY NEWSWIRE
Griffon String Quartet Awarded Grant Supporting Senior Mental Health Outreach Activities
Midsummers Music’s affiliate, the Griffon String Quartet, received $2,500 from the Door County Community Foundation for its outreach to support the mental health and wellbeing of seniors in the Door County community. Sister Bay, Wis. (May 16, 2025) – Midsummer’s Music […]
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Living History Event at Noble Square
Fish Creek, Wis. (May 16, 2025) – Come to Noble Square, located in downtown Fish Creek, and take a step back in time. On May 25th, beginning at 10:00, the Arachne Spinners Guild of Door County and Alpaca to Apparel will […]
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Baileys Harbor Launches “Final Fridays” Concerts, Plus Summer Yoga & Farmers Market Fun
Baileys Harbor, Wis. (May 14, 2025) — Baileys Harbor is turning up the volume on summer fun with a new format for the Summer Concerts in the Park series. Introducing “Final Friday!” – a fresh, once-a-month tradition that brings live […]
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Animal Tips: Curbing Leash Reactivity in Your Dog!
Green Bay and Door County, Wis. (May 13, 2025) – The Wisconsin Humane Society (WHS) describes a dog as being “leash reactive” when they bark, lunge or growl at specific triggers that they see while on leash. Most commonly, the trigger […]
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Migrating Birds in Spring
By Coggin Heeringa, Interpretive Naturalist, Crossroads at Big Creek, Inc. At Crossroads, we observe birds almost daily, but the first few weeks of spring migration are different — special and important. Each spring, we watch migrating birds not only for […]
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What Happens When We Share Our Stories
After nourishment, shelter, and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world. – Philip Pullman By Jerod Santek, Founding & Artistic Director, Write On, Door County Is it any wonder that Sharing Our Stories can be abbreviated SOS? […]
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Spring Green-Up
By Coggin Heeringa, Interpretive Naturalist, Crossroads at Big Creek, Inc. It’s almost St. Patrick’s Day, and folks around County Door are celebrating this weekend! At Crossroads at Big Creek, we’ve tailored our programs to align with St. Patrick’s Day and […]
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Celebrating Women Writers
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. — Alice Walker Last weekend, twelve women gathered in our Library Classroom, all strangers to the others in the room. They came together for […]
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DOOR DINING NEWS
By Marise Redmann (Originally published in 2023 Door County Go! Guide) A life well-lived is even better when it involves great food. For couples, it can also be a shared bond. Gabrielle and AJ Dillon, for instance, who share both a life and a love of great food. Gabrielle is a photographer and political science […]
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December 22, 2024 I often get asked, “When you started Midsummer’s Music nearly 35 years ago, did you dream that it would grow into what it is today?” The short answer is no. But what we quickly saw was that it had a profound impact on many people. Carefully nurturing that impact over the years […]
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February 6, 1934 – October 3, 2023 Jean Wideroe Berkenstock, 89, passed away with her husband at her side on Tuesday, October 3, 2023 at Evanston Hospital in Evanston, IL. She is survived by her husband of nearly 50 years, James Turner Berkenstock, a daughter, Nina Swanson, a stepson, Paul Berkenstock, grandchildren Jake Hoogheem, Keven […]
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September 18, 2023 By Norbert Blei Working in a converted chicken coop north of Ellison Bay, for 40+ years writer Norbert Blei (8/23/1935 – 4/23/2013) chronicled Door County through the lives of its inhabitants. A revised edition of DOOR WAY: The People in the Landscape, the first book in Blei’s “Door Series,” was published August […]
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