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agreement with the Green Bay club regarding support for key administrative functions. All current locations will remain open; no disruption of staff or management personnel is expected; and each club will retain its name and branding, though a new name is being determined for the new regional corporation comprising the three entities.

“While we believe strongly in the power of coming together, great care is being taken to ensure that both clubs remain connected to their respective communities,” said Erich Pfiefer, board chair for the Boys & Girls Club of Door County. “These are organizations with long-standing histories that serve unique communities, and it is vital that this remains at the forefront of our work. Through this process, we have discovered that our organizational cultures and missions are far more common than they are different. We are committed to providing the same high-quality service that has been the hallmark of both organizations for decades.”

The combined organization will now be one of the region’s largest youthdevelopment agencies, serving more than 3,000 youth annually. The expanded organization will be more suwstainable and increase opportunities for staff members’ professional growth and development.

Find out more at bgcgb.org.

Maxwelton to Remain a Golf Course

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NOW SEEING PATIENTS IN KEWAUNEE is to connect high school students with area businesses that seek candidates to fill both seasonal and year-round positions. business proprietors who are interested in presenting at the fair should register with Lauren baumann at lbaumann@newya.org by april 1. More details will be released later, but businesses should be prepared to present students with job descriptions and applications. innovator Joseph Roseman and built in 1929 and 1930 by Baileys Harbor native and Sunbeam executive Michael McArdle, the golf course in recent years has been a separate entity from the adjacent Maxwelton Braes lodge and resort, which McArdle also built. continued from page 1

Dr. Paul Smullen, a board-certified familymedicine physician, is now seeing patients at Prevea Health in Kewaunee. He specializes in routine medical care for children and adults, preventive medicine, medication management, and acute and chronic disease management. Smullen earned his medical degree at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He is currently the only male primary-care physician practicing in Kewaunee County.

University in the mid-2000s. When he began with the Packers, it became a regular getaway, and his family bought property in Baileys Harbor in 2009.

Dr. Paul Smullen

Job Fair Seeks Local

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The Northeast Wisconsin youth apprenticeship program is organizing a fair april 19, 12-1:20 pm, at Gibraltar in fish Creek. The objective

MBE CPAS ACQUIRES STANGEL ACCOUNTING AND TAX

Mbe CPas has acquired the Stangel accounting and Tax Office in Sturgeon bay. During the coming months, Mbe CPas and Stangel accounting will work closely to ensure a smooth transition for clients. The Stangel staff is joining the Mbe CPas workforce and will continue to work with many of its current clients under the new entity. Mbe provides accounting, tax, consulting and other professional services.

Jim and Jeanine Bresnahan purchased the golf course from Baylake Bank in early 2015 aft er the course was in foreclosure for approximately five years. Since the purchase, they have made changes such as improving the quality of the fairways and the surfaces of the greens, and adding a storage building for maintenance equipment.

Murphy said the purchase wasn’t long in the making. A deal with a different buyer for the course and separate lodge fell through at the last minute in June, and Murphy said that he and his wife, Laurie, began considering it last fall.

“We both love Door County, and Laurie loves real estate, and I love to golf,” he said.

The Murphys first got to know Door County during a visit with friends when Murphy was the athletic director at Northwestern

During his time as athletic director at Colgate University in New York state, Murphy said his duties overseeing the school’s public golf course were one of his favorite parts of the job.

“That course had history, and so does Maxwelton, having been a real asset to the community since 1929,” he said.

The new ownership isn’t the course’s first connection to the National Football League. In October 1948, the Los Angeles Rams spent two weeks at the resort during their Midwestern road trip. In the days before teams traveled by plane, the Rams saved travel time and money by staying at the resort aft er their game at Chicago and before their contest in Green Bay, practicing on a makeshift field on the 11th fairway. Then they returned to Maxwelton aft er that game to practice in advance of their game in Detroit the following week.