The Weekly Packet

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The Weekly Packet
Type Weekly newspaper
Format Broadsheet
OwnerPenobscot Bay Press
PublisherNat Barrows
EditorNat Barrows
Founded1960 (1960)
Headquarters Blue Hill, Maine
Circulation 2,200
Website weeklypacket.com

The Weekly Packet is a weekly newspaper serving Maine's Blue Hill, Brooklin, Brooksville, Sedgwick, and Surry communities. [1] 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. [2] It claims a circulation of 2,200 copies, and is published by Penobscot Bay Press [3] which publishes a number of other area papers under a single editor. [4]

References

  1. ↑ Fodor's (2008). Fodor's Maine Coast: With Acadia National Park. Fodor's Travel Publications. ISBN   9781400019045.
  2. ↑ "Hoosier-born newspaperman dies at age 72". The Star Press . September 28, 2003.
  3. ↑ "Weekly Packet". Mondo Times. Retrieved July 6, 2018.
  4. ↑ "About Us". Penobscot Bay Press.


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