Karina Naze, a 7th grade student at Algoma Middle School, had her art work selected as Wisconsin’s State winner for the National SunWise with SHADE 2013 Poster Contest. Each year the SHADE foundation of America partners up with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s SunWise Program to educate youth about skin cancer through classroom activities. K-8 students are invited to submit creative posters illustrating ways to … Continue reading →

City street department crews started the process of collecting brush city-wide in Sturgeon Bay Monday. As in the past, brush must be placed at the curb and street department crews will make only one pass through neighborhoods in the city. Brush must be cut into 6 foot lengths or less and placed parallel to the curb. Sidewalk access should not be blocked when putting the brush … Continue reading →

At 6:28am Friday morning, the Kewaunee County Sheriff’s Department received a call of a capsized boat in the waters of Lake Michigan, approximately 100 feet offshore near the Algoma City Harbor. Officers from the Kewaunee County Sheriff’s Department, Algoma Police Department, and Algoma Fire and Rescue Departments, along with the United States Coast Guard responded to the area.  A nearby charter vessel was able to … Continue reading →

A large tree branch hitting a wire off Carlsville Road is being blamed for a power outage that affected a wide swath of the Town of Sevastopol, including the WDOR-FM transmitter Friday morning. At about 9:30am, the lights went out, affecting more than 1,300 customers of Wisconsin Public Service Corporation. That’s about 26% of the WPS customers in the 54235 zip code area. The loss … Continue reading →

The excavation of a new water main signals the beginning of the road construction project on Oak Street in Sturgeon Bay, from Madison to Lansing Avenue. City Engineer Tony Depies says work on the existing main on Lansing Monday will result in a water outage on West Oak Street on the construction zone and on Lansing Avenue from Oak Street to Pine Street, starting at … Continue reading →

The 3rd Annual Citywide Garage Sale in Sturgeon Bay is only about 6 weeks away. Initially a one-day event, it was so popular, that the garage sale was expanded to 2 days in 2012. This year, it’s on Friday, May 31st and Saturday, June 1st. If you are a city resident and would like to participate, all you need to do is stop at the … Continue reading →

A group calling itself “Safe Lawns of Door County” wants to see an end to the use of pesticides and herbicides in parks and at schools locally and has announced that it will present a petition to that affect to the Sturgeon Bay city council during its regular meeting Tuesday evening. At last count, the group had collected 141 signatures on the petition which urges local … Continue reading →

Four units and seven firefighters were sent to an apartment at 913 South Elgin Avenue, on the west side of Sturgeon Bay, Wednesday afternoon after a fire was reported in a bedroom there.  The first crew on the scene found a small dresser burning.  A fire extinguisher was used to knock down the flames and a small amount of water finished the job.  The damage … Continue reading →

Reacting to concerns about the safety of the intersection of County C and Highway 57, the Door County Highway Safety Commission has voted in support of the creation of a “J-turn” at the intersection. County Highway Commissioner John Kolodziej says the J-turn is intended to make it safer for drivers wishing to make a left turn or cross a busy multi-lane highway… [Audio clip: view full … Continue reading →