In this issue

The Blue Hill YMCA opens a senior center, Santa comes to Sargentville, and Buck’s Harbor Market is slated to be open all winter. Read about this, and more, inside.

Buck's Harbor Market will keep the lights on this winter

Open year-round

2 mins

Proposed Blue Hill ordinances to require petitions, votes

Healthy Ecosystem Ordinance, Unencapsulated Polystyrene Ordinance

3 mins

Blue Hill YMCA opens senior center

BLUE HILL—The Blue Hill YMCA has found a way to utilize the space left vacant when the Blue Hill Childcare Center closed in September. That space has now been converted into a senior center for senior YMCA members and the general senior population to gather for coffee, puzzles, board games and socializing five days a week.

2 mins

Garden Club establishes Blue Hill Community Garden

BLUE HILL—This summer, the Blue Hill Garden Club partnered with Healthy Acadia’s Downeast Gleaning Initiative to plant public pick-your-own grow boxes in downtown Blue Hill.

2 mins

Castine gallery owners go “green-er” this Thanksgiving

Art for conservation

2 mins

Experience, depth key as Mariners enter season

DEER ISLE—The girls basketball team returns most of last year’s team that went to the Eastern Maine finals. Though our expectations will be high, Coach Randy Shepard is working to get the best combinations with each position.

1 min

GSA boys basketball team feeds off culture of success

BLUE HILL—Success on the basketball court has become a culture for the George Stevens Academy boys basketball program, and with the season start only a few days away, the team has been busy preparing for what coach Dwayne Carter hopes will be another strong showing for the Eagles.

2 mins

‘More confident' DISHS boys basketball team begins season

DEER ISLE—The boys basketball team has good numbers with many of the last year’s team that did make the tournament returning. I noticed in the scrimmage with Narraguagus that we have gotten taller and more confident.

1 min

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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.