Door County Style

Not every poet finds a reason or need to develop a voice within a voice, another ‘persona’ if you will, but for some time a number of poets (Americans in particular) have been getting outside/inside themselves in the way writers of fiction create ‘characters’ or characters to voice other levels of meaning.
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Community Clay Nights in Algoma are ongoing creative and social evenings, open to all levels of ability. Clay on Steele has a variety of molds, textures and imprints that can be used to make bowls, plates, platters and tiles. They will also be featuring some garden projects such as birdbaths, pots and decorative pieces. Basic [...]

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After their latest basketball victory, reporter Scott Venci at the Green Bay Press Gazette takes notice of the Gibraltar Vikings in today’s paper.
In “Scott Venci’s Countdown” he says, “The Gibraltar Boys Basketball Team isn’t threatening Oconto for the Packerland Conference title, but the Vikings quietly are closing in on their first .500 season in more [...]

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Grants provide more affordable, reliable and dependable transportation.
$4.8 million in “Transportation to Jobs” grants were recently awarded to Wisconsin groups. $73,383 is earmarked for Door County to help residents get to and from work.
“These grants provide critical support to organizations across the state that helps hard-working Wisconsin families get to their jobs,” Governor Doyle says. [...]

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The following is written by DoorCountyDailyNews.com President and CEO Roger Utnehmer:
Four men of goodwill made a decision at Tuesday’s Sturgeon Bay City Council meeting that has angered many. By a vote of 4 to 3, council members rejected pleas to return the downtown business district to two-way traffic. Council members voting to keep one-way [...]

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Door County’s chapter of Habitat for Humanity will start a different style of home-building project this coming summer. The Apostles Build, a new program that intends to bring 12 churches or groups of churches together to build a Habitat home in Door County, is 2/3 enrolled according to Sturgeon Bay Moravian Church pastor Reeder Herrick.
“Each [...]

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From the Executive Director
Dear Friends of the Fairfield,
Paul Light, a professor at New York University’s Wagner School of Public Service, commented in a recent Wall Street Journal article that “a drop in charitable contributions could shutter as many as 100,000 nonprofits over the next year.” It is with regret that I must inform you that [...]

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State of the State
Good Evening from the State Capitol in Madison. Tonight was the annual State of the State Address by Governor Doyle. As you can imagine, this address was the bleakest of any during the last 7 years of his administration.
It is indeed troubled times the state is facing. The condition [...]

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The Partnership for Phosphate Reduction, a coalition of 13 Door County community environmental and homeowner groups, applauded two new bills before the Wisconsin Legislature that could potentially ban phosphorus in most lawn fertilizer sold in the state.
The two bills, Assembly Bill 3 and Senate Bill 5 have been introduced in Madison. Both of Door County’s [...]

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Once after the war the small boy went from the city in a new blue Buick convertible and skated a frozen river in a forest preserve with his favorite uncle who was like a father to him.

Uncle Stephan was a soccer player, a soft ball player, an archer, a photographer, a singer, and a speed [...]

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