Known as the largest shopping center north of Sturgeon Bay June 16, 1950, from the Green Bay Press-Gazette Sister Bay in recent years has become the commercial hub of the Door County peninsula. It offers the largest shopping center north of Sturgeon Bay and is the home of some of Door County’s most progressive young […]

August 18, 1941 – Green Bay Press-Gazette While recent dry weather cut down considerably the number of entries, it did not distract from the beauty that was shown in the various classifications at the annual Peninsula Arts association flower and garden show held at the village hall here Saturday and Sunday. The show opened Saturday […]

June 15, 1948 – Green Bay Press Gazette 32-Room Mansion Near Sister Bay Now Owned by Green Bay Attorney Fabulous, majestic, cathedral-like only partially afford a picture of “Solitude Castle.” One must see and walk about this immense 32-room mansion of Green Bay Attorney Victor McCormick at Sister Bay to know its size, to feel […]

By Roy Lukes, Green Bay Press-Gazette, January 8, 1986 We have just finished with our 28th consecutive “single most popular early winter bird continental inventory in the world,” better known as the Christmas Bird Count. In correspondence, we refer to it as the CBC. Had our Dec. 21 count been about a week earlier, as […]

October 22, 1967, the Green Bay Press-Gazette “That’s a lot of apple sauce!” – visitors to the Fruit Growers Cooperative processing plant in Sister Bay may be heard to remark – and they’re right. The cans, each holding a pound of the pink sauce, come off the line at the rate of about 85 per […]

August 8, 1980 As it nears its first anniversary, the rural Advanced Life Support System offered by the Door County Ambulance Service is still the only formal rurally trained paramedic program in the nation. Dr. John Herlache, an initiator of the paramedic service, noted that you “can’t say how many people got better quicker” since […]

Door County Advocate, July 25, 1919 At Sister Bay, beginning tomorrow will be held the first Chautauqua program ever attempted in the county north of Sturgeon Bay. The program will continue until August 3 – a nine-day program more interesting than anything similar ever held in the county. The Chautauqua is put on by the […]

June 15, 1948, Green Bay Press-Gazette Besides claiming its share of resort facilities, with unusually well-developed commercial facilities for its summer guests, Sister Bay claims a new attraction in the county, the “Three Springs Nature Center,” the project of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Wilson of Ephraim. Two and a half miles east of Sister Bay […]

By Don Langenkamp, Green Bay Press-Gazette Sept 9, 1976 A big seller in Door County this summer was a T-shirt bearing the legend, “Door County is for lovers.” That should read baseball lovers. While many small-town baseball leagues are dying out for lack of interest, the Door County League is a robust, money-making operation. In […]

By Linda Sivasi-Kelly Door County Almanak, No. 5, 1990 Sending postcards is a curious custom we’ve had with us for over 125 years. In 1861 John Charlton, an American, produced the first private mailing card. The printed cards were highly embellished with a decorative border and a small space for a brief message. The cards […]