Local news briefs News-Chronicle Green Bay Governor in town today Gov. Jim Doyle will give the keynote address at the Coalition of Wisconsin Aging Groups annual convention in Green Bay today. Doyle will speak at 10 a.m. at the Radisson Hotel, 2040 Airport Drive. Lambeau Street closing until mid-August Lambeau Street from Larsen Road to a point along the west side of U.S. 41 will be closed starting today because of bridge repair work that is part of the U.S. 41 renovation project. The street will be closed until about August 15. Access to businesses near the U.S. 41-Larsen Road bridge construction will be unaffected. Access to businesses on Lambeau Street will be available from the south only. Traffic wishing to access Lambeau Street from the north will be detoured along Larsen Road, Hinkle Street and Hutson Road. Friday deadline for fund-raiser sales Friday is the deadline to reserve seats for a Wednesday fund-raiser featuring Laura Kolar, Miss Green Bay Area 2003. The event, during which Kolar will preview her vocal performance and wardrobe for the Miss Wisconsin pageant later this month, is a fund-raiser for the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Summer Music Camps. The event runs from 6:30-9 p.m. at the SC Grand, 1250 Mid-Valley Drive, De Pere. Tickets are $22 and include dinner, dessert and other entertainment. For more information, call 430-8015. Howard-Suamico Girl Scouts get national honor for project Junior Girl Scout Troop 279, Howard-Suamico Service Unit, Lac Baie Council, has won a national award for its breast-cancer-awareness project. The troop's project was cited as part of Colgate-Palmolive's 30th anniversary search for community projects by young Americans. It received a $100 fourth prize in the national Girl Scouts division. The troop helped prepare informational packets, coordinated beaded bracelets used for self-examination instruction, and delivered both to various spas and hair salons in the area. Sturgeon Bay Nature Conservancy gets $2.3 million The Nature Conservancy announced it will receive nearly $2.3 million to protect and restore critical forest and wetland habitat for some high-priority projects along the Door Peninsula from the Natural Resource Damage Assessment. The funds were approved at a meeting of the Fox River/Green Bay Natural Resource Trustee Council on Tuesday afternoon. The Nature Conservancy plans to use the money to purchase nearly 375 acres of environmentally sensitive land at Bay Shore Blufflands near Carlsville and at the Mink River Estuary and North Bay on Lake Michigan in Door County. The rest of the funds will go toward habitat restoration and enhancement projects, such as planting trees and controlling non-native species.