EPHRAIM, Wis. (AP) -- Residents of a Door County village where alcohol sales have been prohibited since it was founded in 1853 will have a chance to change that tradition in April.
Two referendum questions will be on the spring ballot in Ephraim asking its 300 residents whether beer sales should be allowed and whether it's OK to sell wine in restaurants.
Ephraim businessman Hugh Mulliken started a petition drive to put the questions to voters. Mulliken tells the Journal Sentinel that restaurants in the village are at a disadvantage because they can't serve beer or wine with dinner. But others like keeping the tradition of Ephraim as a dry village. Referendums on ending the prohibition failed twice before -- in 1932 and in 1992.
The tourist town is believed to be the only alcohol-free community left in Wisconsin.
