The Island Packet

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The Island Packet
TypeDaily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) The McClatchy Company [1]
PublisherBrian Tolley
EditorBrian Tolley
Founded1970
Headquarters10 Buck Island Road
Bluffton, SC 29910
Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Circulation 16,196 Daily
17,015 Sunday(as of 2020) [2]
ISSN 0746-4886
Website islandpacket.com

The Island Packet is a daily morning broadsheet newspaper owned by Chatham Asset Management, [3] serving primarily the residents of southern Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States, particularly the towns of Hilton Head Island and Bluffton.

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History

The newspaper was founded as a weekly on July 9, 1970, by Tom Wamsley and Ralph Hilton, with financial backing by Lucy and Jonathan Daniels, editor emeritus of the Raleigh News & Observer. Television personality Garry Moore had a regular humor column in the paper in the late 1970s and early 1980s titled "Mumble, Mumble".

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