| Type | Weekly newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Penobscot Bay Press |
| Publisher | Nat Barrows |
| Editor | Nat Barrows |
| Founded | 1960 (1960) |
| Headquarters | Blue Hill, Maine |
| Circulation | 2,200 |
| Website | weeklypacket |
The Weekly Packet is a weekly newspaper serving Maine's Blue Hill, Brooklin, Brooksville, Sedgwick, and Surry communities. It was founded by Jerry Durnbaugh, an Indiana transplant to Maine, in 1960, and later purchased by Nat Barrows of Penobscot Bay Press in 1981. It claims a circulation of 2,200 copies, and is published by Penobscot Bay Press which publishes a number of other area papers under a single editor.
References
- Fodor's (2008). Fodor's Maine Coast: With Acadia National Park. Fodor's Travel Publications. ISBN 9781400019045.
- "Hoosier-born newspaperman dies at age 72". The Star Press. 28 September 2003.
- "Weekly Packet". Mondo Times. Retrieved 6 July 2018.
- "About Us". Penobscot Bay Press.
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