EPHRAIM, WI (WTAQ) – A Door County village that’s been dry for 162 years will have two April referendums on whether to change that.
Ephraim, north of Fish Creek along the Bay of Green Bay, will ask residents whether to let beer be sold, and whether wine can be sold in restaurants in a community that the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel calls the only alcohol-free place left in the Badger State.
Hugh Mulliken petitioned for the votes, saying it could promote additional business in the village of 300 full-time residents.
But an Ephraim Historical Foundation member, Tony Beadell, says allowing alcohol would remove what he calls “the collective wisdom of thousands of villagers overs multiple generations.”
Ephraim is best known for its 109-year-old Wilson’s ice cream parlor along the bay on Highway 42.
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(Story courtesy of Wheeler News Service)
