The Weekly Packet - October 3, 2024

In this issue

An NBA basketball court is being cut into pieces on Cape Rosier. The Shaw Institute is becoming a go-to lab to study microplastics in humans—and even monkeys. After making music for 100 years, a Blue Hill organization makes a statewide "endangered" list. Girls volleyball flies high at GSA. And the Mountain Road reconstruction project is nearing completion (hallelujah).

The Weekly Packet Newspaper Description:

The Weekly Packet has been serving the Blue Hill Peninsula for the last five decades. It shares the stories and news of Blue Hill, Brooklin, Brooksville, Sedgwick and Surry, Maine. Steeped rich in traditions such as fishing, boat building and agriculture, the newspaper follows the lives of its people and industry while also serving as the local paper of record and reporting on the municipal and educational decisions that affect the lives of the people that call the peninsula their home. Blue Hill, with its hospital and diverse alternative health care providers, as well as its many businesses and cultural institutions, serves as a nexus for the area.