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School staff vaccination rates are available to the public via the Maine CDC website. School Unions 76 and 93 complete applications for the third round of COVID-19 federal emergency relief funds. Halcyon Grange invites the public to celebrate the winner of its newest Community Citizen Award. And the weather clears for GSA’s Duane B. Gray Memorial Golf Tournament. 

A solar farm is planned for an existing blueberry field along Caterpillar Hill Road. The Delta variant is contributing to an increase in state and county COVID cases. Preparations are underway for the Falls Bridge replacement, including historical salvage. And GSA welcomes new staff—including some familiar faces—as the school year gets underway. 

The Blue Hill Fair returned with robust crowds and old-time favorites. The Bay School begins the school year with newly added classrooms. Blue Hill’s town hall will receive new steps and paint thanks to the Belvedere Grant. Island and Peninsula communities weigh the future of the Island Nursing Home. And registration is open for a community tech workshop. 

The Blue Hill Fair launches with something old and something new. The Island Nursing Home announces plans to close this fall. Sending schools oppose GSA’s proposal for longterm contract. Everyone depends on someone who depends on childcare, in the Your Health Matters column. And the new school year is underway! 


Snow’s Cove Road reopens to traffic. Northern Light Health sees a worrying increase in COVID hospitalizations. Big crowds turn out for the Blue Hill Maritime Festival. Surry celebrates Maine’s bicentennial. And it’s back to school for local students!

Indoor masking guidance is shifting in response to rising COVID incidence. The 2020 U.S. Census results are in. The Deer Isle-Sedgwick Bridge experiences closures this week. And the Blue Hill Maritime Festival is all the buzz this weekend!

The Blue Hill Public Library purchased a new property. Participants in the Eggemoggin Reach Regatta sail through despite the fog. Speeding concerns on the radar in Sedgwick. And the Deer Isle-Sedgwick bridge shifts into paving mode! 

Construction projects impact more than roads. GSA sending towns oppose proposed contract. A schedule of events is on the calendar for the Blue Hill Maritime Heritage Festival. A former Peninsula resident racks up the miles—and funds—to benefit MS. And August is brimming with summer events and educational speakers.  

The CDC provides new guidance for mask wearing. Results are in for the Paint the Peninsula auction. A new construction project is underway to support fish passage. And the calendar is bursting with upcoming community events and adventures!

Road construction projects and detours abound. Blue Hill’s new tax rate is set. Brooksville residents gather to remember friends and family lost in 2020. And summer days are popping with art exhibits, special events, and historical tours.

Summer road work projects on deck. Renovations coming to Betsy’s Cove Landing in Brooksville. Local artists create for the Paint the Peninsula fundraiser. Sedgwick’s mill rate drops. And the calendar is bursting with community events! 

Friend Memorial Library dedicates a memorial bench in honor of longtime patron, writer and journalist Jim Straub. GSA’s Orlofsky retires and reflects on his legacy and love of music. Community members and visitors celebrate the Fourth with music, food, and a parades. And upcoming community events abound!

School Union 76 selects an interim superintendent. GSA honors Belinda and Chuck Lawrence and their community fitness center. The Mines Road repaving project is underway. And Bagaduce Music launches its summer programming.

GSA’s instrumental music director Steven Orlofsky retires. A campfire sparks a fire in East Blue Hill. Sedgwick, Surry, and Blue Hill celebrate graduates. And a rowing adventure awaits on the Audacious.

Explore an in-depth look at climate change in our area this week. Blue Hill hosts Pride celebrations with music and events. The search for a new superintendent commences with community input. A fire is narrowly avoided in Brooksville. And summer events abound!

Voters in Sedgwick approved the GSA tuition increase at town meeting June 5, the last of the sending towns to do so. Blue Hill officials start the process of updating the town’s comprehensive plan, and a story on pandemic shortages goes beyond what we expect (hand sanitizer, toilet paper) to unveil today’s lack of materials and how that affects local business and industry.


Despite rain, a Memorial Day observance was held in Blue Hill this week. GSA shared its draft proposal for nominating trustees from sending towns. Also inside, the ribbon was cut on a new Blue Hill restaurant.

GSA opens financial planning committee meetings to the public. Surry voters overwhelmingly approve Newbury Neck beach access purchase. And School Union 93 has a new superintendent, all this week in The Packet.

There will be a Blue Hill Fair in 2021! Plans are in the making. Sedgwick teacher Sarah Doremus is named Hancock County Teacher of the Year; she enjoys “exciting little minds.” George Stevens Academy announces the honor parts for the Class of 2021, while there is still talk of more transparency in the school’s public face.

Northern Light Health is planning to reach out to Maine schools to set up free COVID-19 vaccine clinics for students age 12 and older. Beginning Monday, May 24, George Stevens Academy’s 9th and 10th grade students will return to classrooms four days per week. A GSA family recounts their experience of battling brain cancer. Also inside, members of the Blue Hill select board discussed prioritizing Turkey Farm Road for reconstruction at a meeting on May 3.

The coronavirus vaccine landscape is changing, and with nearly half of all eligible Mainers vaccinated, state officials and health care providers are trying to make it easier for everyone else to get shots. With less than seven weeks before the end of school for Union 93 students, eighth grade graduation dates have been set. Also inside, thanks to a newly formed committee, the Blue Hill Town Park will see a number of improvements to its grounds and facilities.

The CDC’s pause of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine dampens the local demand. The Gatherings installs Surry’s first electric vehicle (EV) charging station; and Surry residents decide on George Stevens Academy’s proposed $1,000 per-student tuition increase. Also inside, local browntail moth populations remain high this year with caterpillars emerging early.

Beth Dickens takes the reins as Blue Hill Chamber of Commerce president, after serving on the board since 2017. Surry residents will elect one select board member and one school board member and vote on 11 warrant items at the annual town meeting by referendum vote, scheduled for Friday, April 23, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Also inside, the Blue Hill School Board announces the last day of school as well as graduation date and plans.

Local pop-up clinics were canceled or delayed on April 13 just hours after federal health officials advised a pause in use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. The Schooner Bowdoin, the “matron” of MMA’s sail vessel training program for the past 33 years, celebrates 100 years of sailing. Also inside, George Stevens Academy students and families respond to the academy’s requested $1,000 per student tuition increase.

The Schooner Bowdoin, the “matron” of MMA’s sail vessel training program for the past 33 years, celebrates 100 years of sailing. The Falls Bridge will be closed to day traffic for four days beginning April 19. Also inside, find out where this week’s coronavirus vaccination clinics are now available to ages 16 and up.

Blue Hill’s planning board approves the $3.1 million gymnasium addition to the Lawrence Family Fitness Center building. Sedgwick and Blue Hill form broadband committees aimed at providing faster, cheaper internet. Also inside, find out where coronavirus vaccination clinics will be held throughout the area this month.

Learn when and where coronavirus vaccine pop-up clinics are available to anyone over age 16. After almost a century in the same building, Blue Hill Hospital announces plans to rebuild the facility in 2022. Also inside, read about Brooklin’s two select board candidates.

With the federal American Rescue Plan signed into law March 11, find out what relief funds will be coming to your town. Also read more about how the coronavirus restrictions on gathering and travel are gradually being lifted. An effort for the mind and senses to be engaged with in-person exhibits of costume collections at the Blue Hill Historical Society.

Blue Hill Consolidated School abruptly shuts down after COVID-19 scare. Committee forms for Blue Hill Town Park restoration, handicapped accessibility addressed. Read more on how more COVID restrictions are being lifted.

As more vaccinations become available, residents are getting their shots. The need for more tuition funds from local communities and the issue of transparency of information at George Stevens Academy continue to be in the news.  Also we have two sides of the information veracity and an editorial on facts and opinions. The half million Americans who have died from  COVID-19 were honored in Blue Hill Monday.

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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.

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