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DCMC Clinic welcomes Weilbaker

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  • By Sharon Verbeten

Robyn Weilbaker would often get various job listings in her email, but the nurse practitioner says “Nothing really piqued my interest enough to consider [a move].” That changed when she learned of an opening at Door County Medical Center’s Washington Island Clinic.

Weilbaker, who previously worked at Emergency Medicine of Indiana in Fort Wayne, started full-time Sept. 23 at the Island’s clinic, alternating weeks with Dr. Beth Lux.

Dr. James Heise, medical director for DCMC,” says, “She brings a strong background that will be an asset to the community.”

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Big and Little Susie Islands donated into permanent conservation with Door County Land Trust

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  • Submitted by Door County Land Trust

Door County Land Trust recently announced the acquisition of Big and Little Susie Islands near Washington Island into permanent conservation. The islands were owned by brothers Paul and Arni Richter and passed on to family.

The Big and Little Susie Islands together total approximately 15 acres and are located off the northwestern shore of Detroit Harbor on Washington Island. Between the Susie Islands and the shoreline of the nature preserve lays a freshwater estuary, known locally as the Richter Bayou, which is a significant and productive smallmouth bass nursery for northern Green Bay and Lake Michigan.

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