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THE PIERQUET FAMILY, including (from left) son Evan, father Paul, dog Olive, daughter Emma and mother Christine posed for a portrait in front of the distinctive “love Ukraine” sign at a mall in Kyiv, where the family lived for the past 15 years. They returned to the United States in November, just months before Russia invaded the country. Paul and Christine Pierquet now family life pastors at Portview Church in the Town of Port Washington, are collecting food and other supplies to send to people in the wartorn country next month.

From Port to Ukraine, with love and prayers

When Paul and Christine Pierquet of Fredonia moved back to the United States last fall after living in Ukraine for 16 years, they had no idea that the country would soon be fighting for its existence...

SEVERAL VEHICLES were parked in new lots, which are expected to be paved this summer, at Lion’s Den Gorge Nature Preserve in the Town of Grafton Tuesday. In the background is a new pavilion that is also expected to be completed this summer. Photo by Bill Schanen IV

Parking project to help Lion’s Den cope with its popularity

Before the pandemic, Lion’s Den Gorge Nature Preserve drew 100,000 people a year to its 73 acres on the Lake Michigan bluff in the Town of Grafton. Last year, it attracted nearly three times as many...

PORT WASHINGTON STATE BANK is converting the long vacant Dairy Queen restaurant building on East Washington Street into a community room for events and meetings. The Lakeview Room at the corner of Main and Franklin streets will then be used for bank activities. Photo by Bill Schanen IV

Bank to turn DQ building into space for community

The former Dairy Queen building in downtown Port Washington is about to get a new life. Port Washington State Bank, which owns the building at 218 E. Washington St., has hired The Redmond Co. to turn...

Construction of Inventors Brewpub on the parking lot at the end of the North Slip is expected to begin later this month or in early June. One lane of Washington Street will be closed and parking eliminated to accommodate the construction.

Brewpub work to put squeeze on marina traffic, parking

The south side of East Washington Street in downtown Port Washington — the main road to the marina — will be closed to accommodate construction of the new Inventors Brewpub on the north marina slip...

HOLLANDER CHOCOLATE CO. owner Doug Podzilni held bottles of the company’s chocolate and caramel sauces the firm sells to restaurants, coffeehouses and cafes while standing in front of the former Ernie von Schledorn car dealership on South Spring Street in Port. Podzilni is planning to buy the building and renovate it to house much of the company’s operations. Photo by Sam Arendt

Hollander Chocolate plans move to long-vacant EVS building in Port

Port Washington’s south gateway may get new life — and a touch of the Netherlands — with the news that Hollander Chocolate Co. plans to buy the long vacant Ernie von Schledorn car dealership on South...

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Sports

Port’s lumber finally wakes from slumber

An emotional night and a couple of bunts halted the Port Washington High School softball team’s three-game skid on May 10. The Pirates, before they honored Ashley Zygowski, Peyton Mueller-Stenz and Kate Cavanaugh on senior night, racked up 17 hits...

Op-Ed

PRESS EDITORIAL: Town owes homeowners protection from business intrusion

Can any homeowner not shudder at this thought? You live in a city neighborhood, a suburban subdivision or a rural residential area. You love your home and yard and enjoy life there in a comforting refuge from the frenetic, clamorous world at large. And then a business starts operating in your neighborhood close to your home....

Good Living

Port Washington’s Sharon Beste found a use for the more than 100 paintings she has done. She is selling them on June 25 to benefit an impoverished school in Mexico. Photo by Sam Arendt

She paints to lift the lives of poor Mexican kids

A desire to give back during retirement morphed into a little more than a Port Washington couple bargained for, and now Sharon Beste is selling more paintings than she expected to help impoverished Mexican children. Each year, Beste and her husband...

Obituaries

Business

Greek restaurant to take place of Slow Pokes

After 16 years of providing gluten-free, vegan and sustainable food options, Grafton’s Slow Pokes Local Food has closed its doors. Ready for retirement, owner Kathleen McGlone has sold her store at 1229 12th Ave. to a couple who plan to convert the...

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