Egg Harbor News

It was a good weekend to be walking around Fish Creek last week. I made my contribution to the economy of the town, finding great bargains.

Stuart Champeau has joined the staff at Door County Interiors & Design in Egg Harbor as a flooring specialist.

The Sturgeon Bay City Council Tuesday night gave the board of public works power to erect a municipal electric light plant providing it is empowered to do so by a vote of the people in an April 6 referendum.

The concept of a single fire district for Northern Door County is receiving another look, according to fire officials attending a meeting Wednesday of the Egg Harbor village and town boards.

An accomplished group of young poets from Gibraltar High School are featured at the Dickinson Poetry Series reading Feb.

Delia Bogenschutz, 76, Sturgeon Bay, passed away Friday evening, Jan. 27, 2012, at Golden Living Center- Dorchester.

Peninsula Players will present a reading of Rebecca Gilman's stage adaptation of Carson McCullers' "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" at 7 p.m. Monday at Bj rklunden.

I have been reading a good mystery, 'Starting Over.' I was delighted to find that it is written by local Bob McCurdy of Baileys Harbor and more so when I read the inside page and found that Jeanne Whildin of Jacksonport had done the cover illustration and editing.

The 2011 numbers are in for the Door County Humane Society, and they are down. Most businesses would not find that a reason for celebration, but DCHS Executive Director Carrie Counihan said she is delighted.

Vandals have exploded several mailboxes in Door County recently, including two chemical explosions in mailboxes in the city of Sturgeon Bay.

Jacqueline M. Charney and Robert J. Mueller announced a Sept. 15 wedding at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Egg Harbor.

EGG HARBOR - "Jazz at Birch Creek," a new Wisconsin Public Television special taped at Birch Creek Music Performance Center, airs at 8 p.m. Jan.

What's good about Sister Bay? We are 100 years old this year as an incorporated village.

Contracts still need signing and other details need to be worked out, but the lineup for the most of the 2012 Sunday evening Sunset Concert Series at Egg Harbor's Peg Egan Performing Arts Center was announced this week by Terry Lundahl, whose Dragonfly LLC agency handles talent booking for the events.