The Casco Bay Weekly, a free alternative weekly newspaper, ran from 1988 to 2004. In its early years, CBW’s journalists tackled controversial issues in depth, the writing and reporting often flavored with humor and irreverence.
Each print issue will be microfilmed for preservation purposes and the originals will be stored in archival boxes in the library’s off-site storage facility.
The 1988-1992 issues of the paper are indexed in the Maine News Index card file in the Portland Room, while later issues (November 25, 1992 through November 21, 2002) are indexed here on the Maine News Index online. Full-text PDFs of the paper can be accessed here.
Submissions from 1997
Special Women in Business advertising section with profiles of Barbara's Kitchen
"Talk" piece with Abby Homan, a Portland attorney. Holman applied for a moose h
"Talk" piece with Alfred Bredice of Portland, who has 450 ties in his tie collec
"Talk" piece with Alisha Sinclair, 19, a graduate of South Portland High School
"Talk" piece with Allison Brown, 26, who works the counter at Big Mama's diner i
"Talk" piece with Amy Leonard and Cindy Wilson, who were among the first round o
"Talk" piece with Anne Washburn and George Cunningham of Portland, members of th
"Talk" piece with Bethany Marchand, 17, a Gorham High School senior and the 1997
"Talk" piece with Bogumila Pawlakzyk, a native of Poland who moved to Portland t
"Talk" piece with Brandan Hansche, a native of Delaware and the dining room mana
"Talk" piece with Chris Ingram, an arborist with the city of Portland. Ingram h
"Talk" piece with Corey Ramsey, 20, who is collecting signatures on a petition t
"Talk" piece with Deb Bomaster, the primary player in PlayWorks. Bomaster found
"Talk" piece with Doug Davis, 47, of Portland, a licensed clinical social worker
"Talk" piece with Eric Hongisto, a recent graduate of the Maine College of Art.
"Talk" piece with Fuzzy Thurston Howell, a Green Bay Packers fan. Howell asked
"Talk" piece with Gary Berenson, 47, who with his parents runs the Penny Wise De
"Talk" piece with Jimi St. Leonard, 28, who has been managing the Wise Trading C
"Talk" piece with Joan Lewis, a docent at the Portland Museum of Art.
"Talk" piece with Joel Foisy, 29, a security guard at the Portland Musuem of Art
"Talk" piece with Joel Hughes, who for the past several years has been creating
"Talk" piece with John Benjamin, manager of HairBuilder's of Scarborough. Hair
"Talk" piece with Keith Hall, who with his wife Nelly owns Condom Sense on Fore
"Talk" piece with Lisa Bess, 31, a painter of theatrical scenery. Bess and her
"Talk" piece with Lisa Plummer, 24, varsity field hockey coach at Catherine McAu
"Talk" piece with Lizann Ewing of Sebago, who calls herself the Galloping Groome
"Talk" piece with Mary Ann Butts, 28, a member of Portland's Baraka dance troupe
"Talk" piece with Michael Bedecs, 48, a proctologist and laser surgeon in Portla
"Talk" piece with Michelle Berrick, 36, of Portland, a mother of two boys who su
"Talk" piece with Mike and Rebecca Lake, operators of the Port Grooming and Pet
"Talk" piece with Mike Marshall and Alan Cartwright of WCSH-TV. Marshall and Ca
"Talk" piece with musician Nancy 3. Hoffman of Peaks Island. Hoffman last year
"Talk" piece with Nancy Noble, 29, a special collections librarian at the Abplan
"Talk Piece" with Neil Collins, a mechanic at Swedish Performance of Portland an
"Talk" piece with Peter T. Lund of Portland, the discoverer of the Laserstone.
"Talk" piece with Roger Dufault, 64, who has hand-stitched thousands of shoes at
"Talk" piece with Ron Starkey, 50, of Biddeford, a.k.a. Bobo the Clown. Bobo ha
"Talk" piece with Shawn Parker, 35, of Portland, an artist. Parker splits his t
"Talk" piece with Shirley Darrah of Portland, who makes paper-mache giraffes. D
"Talk" piece with singer/songwriter Michael Stillwater, who sings to people thro
"Talk" piece with Sonia Messerschmidt of Portland, a Holocaust survivor. The in
"Talk" piece with Staff Sgt. Christopher Lambert, 29, a recruiter for the U.S. A
"Talk" piece with Stanford Brown of Cumberland, a beekeeper for nearly 40 years
"Talk" piece with Tee Tee Soul, a native of Connecticut who has performed with t
"Talk" piece with Tim Folland, a local artist who spends most of his time mixing
"Talk" piece with Winnie Jones, a registered nurse with Community Health Service
"Weird" piece on a letter from Austin J. DeCoster, owner of DeCoster Egg Farms o
"City" piece on Tim Higgins, 38, of Gorham, the former pastor at the Newman Cent, Jonathan Adams
"Edge" piece on hashing, a part drinking game, part athletic event invented in 1, Jonathan Adams
"Edge" piece on Portland's unconventional art galleries. Pleasant Street Collec, Jonathan Adams
"Edge" piece on the return of karaoke. The Old Port Tavern in Portland's Old Po, Jonathan Adams
"Edge" piece on ballroom dance. Gay couples are taking part in ballroom dance,, Jessica Anthony
"Essay" piece by Kathleen Bailey of Portland, on struggling with depression., Kathleen Bailey
King Middle School eighth-grader Miljan Bajic comments on his experiences in Por, Miljan Bajic
Anchalina and Gregg Thurlow, owners of Club 21, a clothing store in Portland's O, Sharon Bass
"City" piece on becoming a certified residential medication aide in Maine. The, Sharon Bass
"City" piece on grantwriter Skip Matson, who encouraged Sagamore Village residen, Sharon Bass
"City" piece on health insurance coverage for domestic partners. L. L. Bean and, Sharon Bass
"City" piece on housing alternatives for people who are homeless and mentally il, Sharon Bass
"City" piece on Joe Ricci's lawsuit against Portland police. Ricci was arrested, Sharon Bass
"City" piece on John Jay Fignar, 47, of Portland, who was diagnosed with insulin, Sharon Bass
"City" piece on Parker Poole III, 45, of Portland, who is trying to find investo, Sharon Bass
"City" piece on problems at the Cumberland County Jail, including an interview w, Sharon Bass
"City" piece on the Arnie Hanson Center on India Street in Portland, the city's, Sharon Bass
"City" piece on the Arnie Hanson Shelter in Portland. The city of Portland rece, Sharon Bass
"City" piece on the charitable care given by Maine Medical Center and Mercy Hosp, Sharon Bass
"City" piece on the Eastern Promenade trail in Portland. Completion dates for t, Sharon Bass
"City" piece on the Jobs for Maine Graduates program at Lyman Moore Middle Schoo, Sharon Bass
"City" piece on the way Maine's Medicaid program handles dental claims for child, Sharon Bass
Donna Hanson of the Convention and Visitors Bureau of Greater Portland said an e, Sharon Bass
Dorean Maines of the Maine Bureau of Health says around 27 percent of the state', Sharon Bass
"Edge" piece on how a Jewish family and a Muslim family in Portland view Christm, Sharon Bass
"Edge" piece on Tony Gowell, 34, owner of Maine Pest Control. Gowell is a pest-, Sharon Bass
John Campbell, attorney for Joe Ricci in his lawsuit against the city of Portlan, Sharon Bass
Lenny Rowe, 47, of Portland, and Frank Gill, 52, of Standish have filed suit in, Sharon Bass
Long article on the abuses of the used-car trade in Maine. Buy-here-pay-here an, Sharon Bass
Maine's Bureau of Medical Services has received around 80 complaints against hom, Sharon Bass
Nicholas and Lola Kampf, owners of the State Theatre in Portland, have filed sui, Sharon Bass
Portland Performing Arts, run by Phyllis O'Neill and Bau Graves, won the bid on, Sharon Bass
Profile of Allie McCormack, 43, a Portland attorney who does volunteer work as a, Sharon Bass
Profile of Lisa Nash, one of nine probation officers assigned to cover Cumberlan, Sharon Bass
"Soley Watch" piece on a rumor that Joe Soley was selling all of his Old Port pr, Sharon Bass
"Soley Watch" piece on the main sewer line at 10 Exchange Street in Portland, wh, Sharon Bass
The Cumberland County Board of Commissioners this month voted 2-1 against creat, Sharon Bass
The federal Office for Civil Rights is investigating the Maine Department of Hum, Sharon Bass
The Maine Department of Corrections bills Medicaid when Medicaid-approved juveni, Sharon Bass
Feature article on the repeat offenders, who, in many cases look forward to retu, Sharon Bass and Sarah Goodyear
"Essay" piece by Jamie Beckwith, 16, of South Portland, a resident of a transiti, Jamie Beckwith
Sketch depicting the trial of Philip Berrigan, one of six peace activists arrest, Paul Brahms
"Letters." Response to a previous article on the Portland gay bar, Roland's. T, Warren Brown
"Talk" piece with Standish spiritual practitioner and hairdresser Dawn Anderson,, Debra Bunting
"City" piece on how well the city of Portland is living up to the standards of t, Carl Burnett
Portland students this month will be given a limited voice in school policy disc, Carl Burnett
"City" column on race relations in Portland. The author, a black Bowdoin Colleg, Louis Chude-Sokei
"Letters." Lengthy defense of Portland Mayor George Campbell, accused of confli, Ben Coes
"Letters." Response to a previous CBW article on the Eastern Promenade trail in, James Cohen
Assistant Portland city manager Nadeen Daniels, who in February announced that s, Laura Conaway
Bruce Gensmer, president of The Portland Newspapers, chaired the so-called Gensm, Laura Conaway
Cab fares in Portland are controlled by the city, and haven't been increased in, Laura Conaway
Cape Elizabeth animal control officer Bob Leeman has been forced to chase at lea, Laura Conaway