The Weekly Packet

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The Weekly Packet
Type Weekly newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s)Penobscot Bay Press
PublisherNat Barrows
EditorNat Barrows
Founded1960 (1960)
Headquarters Blue Hill, Maine
Circulation 2,200
Website www.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]

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