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  1. Packers wide receiver Jordy Nelson works on a foundation with Door County Habitat For Humanity volunteers Dave Link, center, and Bob Jaeschke, right, of a home build Saturday in Institute. Tina M. Gohr/Door County Advocate

    Photos: Packers take the peninsula

    Sturgeon Bay and Institute turned several shades of green and gold Saturday afternoon as the Green Bay Packers came to town.

    • May. 20, 2012
  2. Chip Leer of Walker, Minn., holds two of the big bass he and his fishing partner hooked Friday. Leer, television host for the FLW Walleye Tour, was part of the eighth-place team heading into today's finals of the 22nd annual Sturgeon Bay Open spring bass fishing tournament. Kevin Naze/For the Advocate

    Outdoors: Record bass possible in tourney

    With plenty of big bass and fewer teams competing for the heavyweights, there's a good chance a new record will be set as the 22nd annual Sturgeon Bay Open spring bass fishing tournament winds down today.

    • May. 19, 2012
  3. Southern Door's Drew Klaubauf fields a ball between second and third bases during a Packerland Conference baseball game against Oconto. Tina M. Gohr/Door County Advocate

    Baseball: Clippers finish 13-1 in Packerland

    Previously crowned champion Sturgeon Bay beat Kewaunee, 8-3, Thursday to cap off a near-perfect Packerland Conference high school baseball season.

    • May. 19, 2012
  4. Judy Harmann talks about the successes of her Southern Door High School salutatorian daughter Jana Suriano who will be studying biology at Ivy League school Princeton University in New Jersery. The family has endured despite a humble upbringing in a Habitat for Humanity house in Sturgeon Bay. Photos by Tina M. Gohr/Door County Advocate Success stories

    Success stories: Habitat for Humanity sweat equity leads to a stable home

    Sometimes when Door County's Habitat for Humanity builds a home for a family, the end product is the answer to a little girl's dream and a platform for even more.

    • May. 19, 2012
  5. Greg Freiherr, the new varsity football coach at Sturgeon Bay, had a 29-1 record in four seasons as freshmen football coach at St. Mary's Springs Academy in Fond du Lac. Submitted

    Sturgeon Bay hires football coach

    Sturgeon Bay High School's new varsity football coach doesn't have a lot of experience, but he comes from one of the most successful prep programs in Wisconsin.

    • May. 18, 2012

  6. Soccer: Tigers edge Pioneers, 2-1, with late goal

    Emily Adams scored with 2 minutes remaining to lift Wrightstown over Sevastopol/Gibraltar, 2-1, Thursday in a Packerland Conference high school girls soccer game.

    • May. 18, 2012
  7. Sturgeon Bay's Anthony Anderson won the long jump and triple jump at the Packerland Conference freshmen/sophomore track and field meet. File/Door County Advocate

    Track: Southern Door wins girls title

    Southern Door's girls team placed first in the Packerland Conference freshmen/sophomore track and field meet Thursday at Gibraltar.

    • May. 18, 2012

  8. Softball: Eagles set for title clash with Wolves

    The Southern Door High School softball team beat Oconto, 4-1, Thursday to set up a winner-take-all showdown with Algoma for the Packerland Conference championship.

    • May. 18, 2012

  9. Engagement:Podolski-Schley

    Taylor Podolski and Kurt Schley, both of Brussels, are pleased to announce their engagement.

    • May. 18, 2012

  10. Engagement: Martin-Hardy

    Sunnie Martin and Lyle Hardy of Babbitt, Minn., are engaged to be married Aug. 4 at Timber Hall in Embarrass, Minn.

    • May. 18, 2012

  11. Peter J. Devlin column: Old chairs and sleepers: Where are they now?

    Ever wondered where stuff ends up when it's "picked" from your garbage pile? I usually have nothing but garbage in my garbage pile, but on two recent occasions, upholstered items have been placed mere feet from the edge of County S at this first house south of the county line. One of those had never been inside this house.

    • May. 18, 2012

  12. Packers Tailgate Tour invades area

    The Green Bay Packers Tailgate Tour wraps up in Door County today, as six current and former Packers players are scheduled to help build a Habitat for Humanity house in Institute before public events at Sunset Park in Sturgeon Bay.

    • May. 19, 2012

  13. Heidi Hodges column: Time latches on to controversy

    Nothing says "controversy" like a picture of a 3-year-old breastfeeding. Especially if that photo is on a Time magazine cover.

    • May. 18, 2012

  14. Women Build invites women to meeting

    All women are invited to meet current Women Build volunteers and learn about opportunities to help Habitat for Humanity by being part of the Women Build project.

    • May. 19, 2012

  15. Theory column: We all have layers of past-present-future

    There are so many personality traits that make up who we are and distinguish us from one another. Actually, there are layers of traits, each that affect another.

    • May. 18, 2012
  16. This is the actual receipt stub for Henry Haen from the Geisel Bros. receipt book for work done on Aug. 6, 1934, the date the photo was taken. Submitted photos

    Door County History: Looking back at the Geisel Brothers' 1934 threshing season

    Bernard Geisel of the town of Sevastopol submitted these photos and a description of the threshing season that they illustrate:

    • May. 19, 2012

  17. Traveling Back through the Door County Advocate archives: May 19

    » Kenneth M. Vista, Door County superintendent of schools, has announced his acceptance of the assistant principal ship of the Door Kewaunee Normal School, replacing Joseph Donovan, who will become Brown County superintendent July 1.

    • May. 19, 2012

  18. Scoreboard

    May 16

    • May. 18, 2012

  19. Regionals next for prep golfers

    Southern Door will host a Division 2 regional high school golf tournament at 9 a.m. Wednesday at Idlewild Golf Course in Sturgeon Bay.

    • May. 18, 2012

  20. SBHS wrestler gets academic recognition

    Sturgeon Bay High School junior Cole Nebel made Crossface Magazine's all-state honorable mention academic wrestling team for the second year in a row.

    • May. 18, 2012

  21. Letter: Working toward horse trail system

    Thumbs Up Riders is the Door County Chapter of the Glacial Drumlin Horse Trail Association. We are a nonprofit trail group promoting safe, responsible trail use. Our ultimate goal is to develop an equestrian trail system with routes connecting local businesses and points of interest throughout Door County.

    • May. 18, 2012

  22. Letter: Post-election temper tantrum

    To begin, let me thank Steve Baudhuin for his guest column article on the recall (May 9). His points were very well explained and precise. Now, let me be more harsh, politically incorrect, calling a spade a spade, whatever.

    • May. 18, 2012

  23. Letter: Amvets provides valuable services

    According to Webster's Dictionary the definition of the word "association" is "an organization of persons having a common interest." This common interest is what initially brings people together and motivates them to join associations.

    • May. 18, 2012

  24. Letter: Election process needs changing

    Our election process is antiquated. Campaigns are too long and too pricey. Communications today are amazing and candidates can tell us all they know and more in four months.

    • May. 18, 2012

  25. Local Destination ImagiNation teams head to Knoxville

    Students from five Door and Kewaunee county schools plan to depart Tuesday for Knoxville, Tenn., where the Destination ImagiNation Global Finals open Wednesday.

    • May. 19, 2012

  26. Town of Union: Candidate turns down inspector job

    Alan Schultz has said "thanks, but no thanks" in a letter to the Union Town Board, which had offered him the part-time job of town building inspector-zoning administrator, it was revealed at Tuesday's monthly board meeting.

    • May. 19, 2012

  27. Nasewaupee: Town may buy dock for boat ramp

    A decision to purchase a removable dock for the Idlewild boat ramp in Nasewaupee could be made in June, Chairman Steve Sullivan told attendees at Thursday's Town Board meeting.

    • May. 19, 2012

  28. Girl Scouts host open house June 2

    The public is invited to an open house hosted by Girl Scouts of the Northwestern Great Lakes (GSNWGL) and the Door County Land Trust (DCLT).

    • May. 18, 2012

  29. Diocese to honor sisters at Jubilee Mass

    Green Bay Catholic Bishop David L. Ricken plans to celebrate a Sisters' Jubilee Mass at 3 p.m. Sunday at St. Francis Xavier Cathedral, Green Bay, to honor 32 women celebrating jubilees in religious life.

    • May. 18, 2012

  30. Political signs in right of way will be removed

    With a major election set for June 5, the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) is reminding citizens that state law prohibits the placement of any type of sign — including political, commercial or garage sale signs — on state highway right of way.

    • May. 18, 2012

  31. Food Pantry founder is forum keynoter

    The founder and director of The Food Pantry and director of ministry at St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church, San Francisco, is the keynote speaker for the 2012 Washington Island Forum on June 25-29.

    • May. 18, 2012

  32. Accidents

    » An Illinois man was transported by ambulance after dozing off, then crashing his vehicle May 4 in the village of Sister Bay.

    • May. 18, 2012

  33. Scotties converge on the town

    Baileys Harbor will be a busy place this weekend. The 12th annual Scotty Rally will take place along with the popular "Parade of Scots," which will occur today at about 11:30 a.m. Approximately 110 Scottish terriers from 11 states will be attending the rally.

    • May. 18, 2012

  34. BUG Fire Department prepares for water rescues

    The Brussels-Union-Gardner Fire Department is well prepared to assist in water rescues both in their own response area and for mutual assistance calls. A personal watercraft is one of the tools available, should it be needed, and is available for use during the warm weather months to the department through the generosity of Ken's Sports, Kaukauna. Ken's Sports also provides a utility vehicle to the department to use for remote off-road rescues and fire response.

    • May. 18, 2012

  35. Back from a trip out West

    It has been an exciting week for me. We flew out to Colorado to visit our daughter, and from there she drove us to Salt Lake City. Another daughter dropped us at the airport in Milwaukee, and it was a great week to be a mother!

    • May. 18, 2012

  36. Community mourns loss of Ephraim's Luke Sheets

    We're all mourning the loss of Ephraim's Luke Sheets this week; just one week after graduation, he perished in that horrible plane crash in Kansas. One student survived and is in a Kansas City hospital.

    • May. 18, 2012

  37. Spring Fling this week

    Stella Maris Catholic Parish will hold its annual "Spring Fling" dinner party at our Sister Bay church site on Wednesday. The doors will open at 4 p.m., and a pot roast and chicken dinner will be served starting at 4:30.

    • May. 18, 2012

  38. Booyah Bash volunteers needed

    The Booyah Bash/Holy Name of Mary parish picnic is scheduled for July 22 beginning with the 10 a.m. Mass. Committee members are in the planning stages of this event and are looking for volunteers in many areas. If you would like to help out, call Hollie Montana at (920) 856-6902. If you would like to donate a decorated cake for the Old Fashioned Cake Walk contact Rosie Jandrin at (920) 743-4882.

    • May. 18, 2012

  39. Gearing up for 40th annual Maifest

    It will be a weekend of milestones in Jacksonport on Memorial Day weekend this year as the community prepares for the 40th annual Maifest celebration, scheduled for May 26-27.

    • May. 18, 2012

  40. Town, School boards meet Monday night

    The Sevastopol Town Board will meet at 7 p.m. Monday for its regular monthly meeting at the town hall in Institute. Agenda items include a presentation by the Door County Soil, Water & Conservation Department on the Dunes Lake Watershed project, a groundwater and nutrient study partially funded by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.

    • May. 18, 2012

  41. Bays start the season with a thriller

    What's good about Sister Bay? The Sister Bay baseball season. Last year the Bay's won the league championship, and they are off and running in fine style again this year.

    • May. 18, 2012

  42. Keep an eye out for partial solar eclipse on Sunday

    Although the weather forecast for tomorrow shows a small chance of thunderstorms on Washington Island, it's been wrong before. And Island resident Emmett Woods is hoping it will be wrong again.

    • May. 18, 2012

  43. Showcase of Homes resumes this weekend

    Looking for ideas for sprucing up the house or building a new one? The public has one more weekend to view seven newly constructed homes during the 10th annual Showcase of Homes through Sunday.

    • May. 18, 2012
  44. Rory Walter, seen in a 2000 file photo, was sentenced to prison Thursday for repeated violations of agreements stemming from her 2008 arrest for animal mistreatment.

    Rory Walter sentenced to prison

    Rory Walter, for more than two decades seen as one of Door County’s champions for animals, was sentenced to prison Thursday after the latest violation of the probation conditions in her animal neglect case.

    • May. 17, 2012
  45. Receiver Jordy Nelson led the Green Bay Packers in receptions, yards and touchdowns last season. Photo courtesy of the Green Bay Packers

    Football: Q&A with Green Bay Packers receiver Jordy Nelson

    Wide receiver Jordy Nelson is coming to Sturgeon Bay on Saturday with the Green Bay Packers Tailgate Tour and did a recent phone interview with Advocate sports editor Korey Mallien.

    • May. 15, 2012
  46. Gibraltar's Andrew Peot, right, won the 100-meter dash and Southern Door's Austin Daoust placed fifth at the Packerland Conference meet. Jon Gast/Door County Advocate

    Track: Wolves run away with titles

    It was a double repeat at the Packerland Conference high school track meet Monday in Oconto, as Algoma swept team honors for the second consecutive year.

    • May. 15, 2012

  47. Softball: Eagles regain share of league lead

    PACKERLAND SOFTBALL

    • May. 15, 2012

  48. Column: The little village with a big history

    As you wind through the hills above Katakolon, you eventually arrive at one of the most hallowed sites in all of sports.

    • May. 15, 2012

  49. Gibraltar earns gold at Solar Olympics

    A solar car built by students at Gibraltar High School earned a gold medal Tuesday during the annual Wisconsin Public Service Solar Olympics competition.

    • May. 16, 2012
  50. Family friend Dave Fish said of his friend Luke Sheets, "He lived and breathed aviation — that's all he dreamed of." Sheets, of Ephraim, died Friday in a crash in southeastern Kansas. Submitted

    Ephraim: Pilot's last act saves woman

    Through their grief over their son's death, Craig and Debra Sheets of Ephraim are gaining some comfort in the fact that his final actions helped give a young woman a fighting chance at life.

    • May. 16, 2012

  51. Baseball: Sturgeon Bay gets back on track

    PACKERLAND BASEBALL

    • May. 15, 2012
  52. Lee Traven's living area in his small one-room unit at Scandia Living in Sister Bay consists of an office, bed, reading/relaxing chair, television and bathroom sink. On the other side of the wall at right is the rest of the bathroom and an 18-inch closet. Phase I of the $8 million capital campaign expansion/remodeling of the village is construction of a 24-unit assisted living building with larger apartments and studios. Tina M. Gohr/Door County Advocate

    Sister Bay: Scandia seeks room to breathe

    Door County's own homegrown retirement village, Good Samaritan Society-Scandia in Sister Bay, has raised $2.7 million — the halfway point in the first phase of its renovation, which could trigger groundbreaking as early as this fall if the other half can be raised.

    • May. 16, 2012

  53. Baseball: Vikings, Pioneers win, now tied for third

    Gibraltar beat Kewaunee twice, 5-2 and 9-6, and Sevastopol defeated Algoma, 9-1, Monday in Packerland Conference high school baseball games.

    • May. 15, 2012
  54. Barb Fochs packages coffee roasted and flavored at Door County Coffee and Tea Co. in Carlsville. Submitted

    Enjoy something special 'Made in Door County'

    Prepare to enjoy something special made right here in Door County, particularly this weekend when eight Door County businesses launch the first annual Made in Door County event.

    • May. 16, 2012

  55. Soccer: Different players come through for Clippers

    PACKERLAND GIRLS SOCCER

    • May. 15, 2012

  56. Country Ovens celebrates 25 'De-Lite'-ful years

    Twenty-five years ago Mike and Kathy Johnson did not imagine that a bucket of Door County cherries and a garage-sale dehydrator could hold so much promise.

    • May. 16, 2012

  57. Baseball: Ports heat up late to win DCL opener

    DOOR COUNTY LEAGUE

    • May. 15, 2012

  58. Traveling Back through the Door County Advocate archives: May 16

    The sweeping white-sand beach at Whitefish Dunes State Park, one of the most popular swimming areas in Door County, has been closed indefinitely due to near-record high water in Lake Michigan.

    • May. 16, 2012

  59. Sports briefs

    Molly Dickson received a Blanket Award, which is presented by the Beloit College Department of Athletics to signify the best of the best student-athletes at the school.

    • May. 15, 2012

  60. Scoreboard

    Andre's Scramble League

    • May. 15, 2012
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