The first of the peninsula’s eight high school graduations takes place on Sunday at Southern Door. Seventy students will walk across the stage to get their diploma before life takes them a variety of different routes including college, tech schools, and the military. Southern Door High School Principal Steve Bousley says the personal growth he has witnessed in the senior class over the last four years has been wonderful, even when they struggled at times.

With Alexis Wery and Regan Norton as its valedictorian and salutatorian, Southern Door High School’s commencement ceremonies will begin at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Southern Door Auditorium with a live stream available on Facebook.