The Weekly Packet
TypeWeekly newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Penobscot Bay Press
PublisherNat Barrows
EditorNat Barrows
Founded1960 (1960)
HeadquartersBlue Hill, Maine
Circulation2,200
Websiteweeklypacket.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. 28 September 2003.
  3. "Weekly Packet". Mondo Times. Retrieved 6 July 2018.
  4. "About Us". Penobscot Bay Press.


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