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Baileys Harbor is one of 50 Wisconsin projects invited as finalists to receive funding under President Obama’s Great Lakes Restoration Initiative to help protect and restore the waters of Lake Superior and Lake Michigan.
The $250,000 grant for Baileys Harbor, if awarded, would address storm water runoff and pollution on seven local public beaches.
“Baileys Harbor has [...]

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Local Community to benefit from Door County YMCA’s focus on youth development, healthy living and social responsibility.
For the first time in 43 years, YMCA of the USA has unveiled a new brand strategy to increase the impact that YMCAs make in communities across the country. The YMCA has the unique capacity to address many of [...]

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Artist Ray Kapfamer believes that “Door County lacks only one important feature, a great river!”
In his current body of work he solves that problem by painting the Door County ‘river’ – a moving force made up of the flow of energy manifest in the people who come to enjoy the Peninsula.
“These paintings have been created [...]

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Artists sharing the artistic process – from blank media to masterpiece, all day on Saturday, August 14 in Sister Bay.

Artistic demonstrations at art festivals may be commonplace, yet few festivals require every artist to demonstrate their craft for the public as artists must do at the Door County Festival of the Arts (DCFA). The 7th [...]

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Ephraim’s Hardy Gallery announces tickets on sale for their 2010 raffle.
Take a chance on wining one of three commissioned landscape portraits depicting a property of the winner’s choosing. Three professional Door County artists: Emmett Johns, Wayne Caldwell Simmons, and Frances Vail will work with the winners of the raffle to paint a home, a cottage, [...]

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A workshop on integrating breath, chakras and meditation presented by intuitive coach, Robert Dubiel on Monday, August 9 from 7 – 9 pm.

Since 1985 Robert Dubiel has dedicated himself to traveling around the world in search of places that have special spiritual significance. He has visited and lived in Hawaii, France, Nepal, India, Thailand [...]

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“A bicycle built for two?” sure! But a bathtub built for 15? That bathtub and much more are headed for Sunset Park in Sturgeon Bay to boost a building project undertaken by the Door County Humane Society.

The national tour of the “All One Ark” will make a stop in Door County on Saturday, August 14 [...]

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Charlene’s Gallery Ten Presents One-day Trunk Show of Paintings by Guatemalan Artist Juan Francisco Guzmán in Gills Rock.

In the Sololá region of Guatemala, Juan Francisco Guzmán is known as an inspiring, demanding, life-changing high school teacher and the director of the school’s Spanish language arts curriculum. His writing won the national prize for literature. [...]

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On a misty July morning, few places in Door County are as beautiful as the prairie planting at Crossroads at Big Creek.
Prairies are not native to Door County, but they do occur in Wisconsin so about a dozen years ago, students from the School District of Sturgeon Bay planted prairie grasses and flowers about halfway [...]

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The Cannon Salute & Breakfast Under the Big Top takes place in conjunction with the Baylake Bank Tall Ship Parade of Sail in Sturgeon Bay on the morning of Thursday, Aug. 12.
Ships escorted by boats from the United States Coast Guard and the Sturgeon Bay Police Department will parade through Sturgeon Bay in groups of [...]

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