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Email us at [email protected]. Penobscot Bay Press is an independently owned community information services company based in Stonington. We also staff an office in downtown Blue Hill, which serves as our mailing center. Our periodical publications center on towns along Maine's coast, including three island towns. The total population of the towns served is about 11,000 year-round residents, with that nu

mber more than doubling in the summer tourist and visitor season. Island Ad-Vantages, based in Stonington, traces its history through weekly papers published on Deer Isle from 1882. The Weekly Packet, Blue Hill, was founded in 1960, and the Castine Patriot, Castine, in 1980. Nathaniel Barrows purchased the Ad-Vantages in 1968, The Packet in 1981, and the Patriot in 1990. In Nov. 2025, Penobscot Bay Press expanded to Bucksport, Orland, and Verona Island and relaunched Castine Patriot as River Observer. The company first started publishing books in 1977. We publish multiple books per year in sync with the summer season and winter holidays.

06/09/2026

BLUE HILL—At the end of April and beginning of May, Blue Hill Heritage Trust completed a large-scale nine-acre tree planting restoration project at their Surry Forest property. Before BHHT’s ownership, Surry Forest was heavily harvested for timber, resulting in degraded and simplified forest con...

06/09/2026

OLD TOWN—A pair of school records and another individual accolade topped Bucksport’s day at the May 29 Penobscot Valley Conference championship meet at Old Town High School. Haley Rose won all three sprinting events, including a school-record time in the 400 m dash, to help the girls finish four...

06/09/2026

DEER ISLE—Despite a chilly overcast day on Saturday, May 31, more than fifty kids showed up for Healthy Island Project’s bike rodeo at the Deer Isle-Stonington Elementary School. The parking lot of the school was transformed into an interactive bike course, complete with a traffic circle. Anne D...

06/09/2026

BROOKSVILLE­— The nationally recognized historic homestead of back-to-the-land icons Helen and Scott Nearing will open on June 19. The Good Life Center is pleased to announce in a press release that resident stewards Lucy Marcus and Jordan Humphrey will return for a second season. The historic ho...

06/08/2026

DEER ISLE—The girls softball team lost another heartbreaker to Jonesport 12-11. We got behind early as Hannah Billings did not pitch her usual sharp game, giving up too many free passes. We trailed 11-5 in the bottom of the sixth when Coach Brian Duke fired up the troops. We started timing the Jon...

06/08/2026

BLUE HILL—George Stevens Academy is proud to announce the 2026 class of its Athletic Hall of Fame, a group of five alumni whose accomplishments on the field, in the classroom, and in their communities reflect the very best of the GSA Eagles tradition. The induction ceremony will be held on Sunday,...

06/08/2026

SURRY—For many Americans raised in rural parts of the country, the lyrics of John Mellencamp’s 1985 anthem about “Life in a Small Town” while growing up in Seymour, Indiana; stir a sense of deep nostalgia and a soulful recognition that a cherished way of life is being lost. President of the ...

06/08/2026

The GSA girls tennis team advanced to the Class C North semifinals with a 3-2 playoff win over Houlton at home on May 28, earning a Wednesday, June 2 showdown at top-seeded Orono—a rematch of two regular season meetings that both ended 3-2 in favor of the Red Riots. Halle Clifford delivered a stro...

06/08/2026

BUCKSPORT—A local couple has offered to match up to $10,000 in donations to help Buck Memorial Library close an upcoming funding loss. Katelyn and Isaac Bray of Bucksport, patrons of the Bucksport library, have offered to match donations up to $10,000 made through August 1. BML Director Lisa Ladd ...

06/07/2026

DEER ISLE—The town of Deer Isle plans to use an $80,000 state grant to study and map freshwater resources within its borders, according to Deer Isle Town Manager Jim Fisher. The money is coming from the state’s community resilience partnership, a program started by Gov. Janet Mill’s office of ...

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