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State Joint Finance Committee Approves Funds for Dredging – Next Step is...
Town Chairman Joel Gunnlaugsson receives the good news. On April 30, 2013, the Joint Committee on Finance of the Wisconsin State Legislature approved a motion that includes $5.2 million for the...
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Spring Dredging at Jackson Harbor and Rock Island Eases Problems Caused by...
Mike Kahr’s boat pushing dredge rig into Jackson Harbor state dock. A great many people – including DNR officials and fish biologists, Mike Kahr of Death’s Door Marine, the U.S. Coast Guard, and the...
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Capturing Island Beauty in Watercolor: Cathy Meader, Artist
Cathy Meader at work in her home studio. Cathy Meader loves to paint in the open air—in the manner of certain schools of French impressionist painting, “pleinair” in French—coloring our Island sky with...
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Electric Co-operative Banner Project
For many years, The Washington Island Electric Co-operative has hung American flags during the summer and Scandinavian flags during the Scandinavian Festival in our downtown area. These flags were...
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Door Islands Bird Festival 2013
The Door Islands Bird Festival 2013 was held on Washington Island on May 31 to June 2. On Saturday, the weather was somewhat miserable, but we managed to bird most of the day at Carlin’s Point, the...
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The Jacobsen Museum: Full of Surprises
The Jacobsen Museum, circa 1931 (photo courtesy of the Washington Island Archives) Howard Scott, the new director of the Jacobsen museum, says he is having fun discovering new surprises. “Hmm, what is...
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Island Veteran Jim Gau Takes Honor Flight
World War II veteran Jim Gau looks over the memento album given to him by his flight guardian Cathy Konen of Appleton. (Photo by Dick Purinton) By Dick Purinton Island World War II navy veteran Jim Gau...
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Timothy Tree Frog: From a small Ohio pond to the Island
Audrey Nourse with granddaughter Giulia Shelton By Patricia Hewitt A few years ago Island resident Audrey Nourse was visiting her granddaughter, Giulia Shelton, now age 10, in Ohio. One spring evening...
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TOWN SQUARE – A Love Note to Washington Island
By Rick Carson As a child from suburban Chicago, I spent many enjoyable summer weeks on the Island in the early 1950s with my fishing-loving dad (and sometimes mom) at Cedar Lodge on West Harbor...
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Jonas Thor, Historian of Icelandic Emigration to America, Visits Washington...
By Mary Marik In 1870, when emigration from Iceland to North America began, the population of the whole of Iceland was about 70,000. (The population of Green Bay today is about 105,000.) During a June...
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