Promoting the Regional Brand
Appleton airport breaks travel record for the month of March
WBAY
GREENVILLE -- The Easter weekend is expected to be a busy time for people looking to travel and it comes as the Appleton International Airport breaks its all time record for the most passengers, even as the price for airfare goes up.
Airport officials we spoke to, say March was their busiest month ever, with more than 84,000 passengers coming and going, which is a sign that people want to vacation.
It’s likely one of the many factors also driving up the price of tickets.
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Promoting the Regional Brand
Recent survey shows 42% of Americans have started growing their own produce
WLUK
GREEN BAY -- A recent survey shows 42 percent of Americans have started growing their own produce.
Cathy Hedge is the owner of Ivy Trails in Green Bay. She says in the last couple of years, the interest in home gardening has grown exponentially.
"Pretty much vegetable sales, and that type of thing have been pretty flat the last few years before that. But the last two years with people being at home, they’ve welcomed the chance to grow some of their own food at home," Hedge said...
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Fostering Diversity-Equity-Inclusion-Belonging
Sturgeon Feast Pow Wow and celebration returns
NBC 26
KESHENA — A cultural celebration is back as the Menominee tribe celebrated the return of the sturgeon to their ancestral spawning grounds on the Wolf River.
This is the first time in two years this celebration has been put on due to the pandemic. The Sturgeon Pow Wow took place on the reservation. It's meant to bring tribal members together, as many consider this their “New Year”.
"It goes back to the creation story of our tribe and it said one of the first things Menominee’s did after creation was fish for sturgeon,” said David Grignon, Menominee Nation Historic Preservation Officer...
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Leadership in the New North
Southern Door teacher Meacham finalist for national award
GREEN BAY PRESS GAZETTE
BRUSSELS - Southern Door Elementary School teacher Jessica Meacham is a finalist for the 2022 Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.
The award is considered the highest honor given by the U.S. government for science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and/or computer science teachers.
Meacham, a STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) teacher for students in 4K through fifth grade, has taught the past 18 years at Southern Door as a primary teacher. She was named Wisconsin’s Rural Teacher of the Year in 2013 and National Rural Teacher of the Year in 2014...
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Special Event
Global Business Peer Roundtable with SBDC, New North, and Door County Economic Development Corp.
INSTITUTE FOR BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP
The Wisconsin Small Business Development Center (SBDC) in collaboration with the New North and the Door County Economic Development Corporation will host the Global Business Peer Group Roundtable on Friday May 20th at the Crossroads at Cedar Creek Learning Center, 2041 Michigan Street, Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235.
The Roundtable events are for all businesses interested in global trade and will provide a confidential forum where participants are open to discuss the challenges they face as it relates to international trade, logistics, and business development. Peer to Peer Roundtables will offer
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