Don Houghton, the publisher of the Bucksport Enterprise, has died. He was 83.
His death was first reported by the Ellsworth American on Wednesday.
Except for a 13-year stint at a nonprofit organization developing housing, Houghton worked in newspapers his entire career.
Formerly an editor and reporter at the Providence Journal, Louisville Courier-Journal in Kentucky and the Daily Hampshire Gazette in western Massachusetts as well as a stringer for the Wall Street Journal, Houghton bought the Bucksport Enterprise in 2001.
He ran the operation with his longtime partner, Sandy Holmes, who handled advertising, circulation, bookkeeping and some editorial chores.
“Don was an amazing trove of knowledge, and his dedication to Bucksport was endless,” Holmes told the American. “We were no Bogie & Bacall — not Lois Lane & Clark Kent either — though he was my Superman. We will always be Sandy & Don of The Bucksport Enterprise. He did his best to put his heart and soul into every issue, and I did my best to help him to the end.”