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 1994
Parker Poole, president of Union Wharf, on April 14 signed a 20-year lease to be
Portland police say two male dancers on September 30 violated the city's nudity
Portland's Downtown District has started a study of Congress Street in response
Related articles on last weekend's Democratic state convention and the gubernato
Related articles on renting apartments in Portland, including one that details t
Review of the American Renaissance Theater's production of William Shakespeare's
Review of the Portland Stage Company's performance of "Three Postcards," by play
S. D. Warren has received permission from the state to burn chipped tires for en
"Sports" piece reporting that the Team Maine contingent at the Gay Games IV comp
State Education Commissioner Leo Martin wanted Michael Heath, executive director
"State of the Arts" issue, with related articles on supporting the arts in Portl
"Talk" piece with Andrea Weiss, a physician's assistant in Portland who received
"Talk" piece with Arthur Rowe, code enforcement officer for the city of Portland
"Talk" piece with Benny Brem, co-owner of Baxter's Army-Navy, a year-old busines
"Talk" piece with Betty Gedaro, who for years has played bocce at the Italian He
"Talk" piece with Bill Linnell, a fisherman, boatbuilder, member of the Cape Eli
"Talk" piece with Bobby Boucher, 35, who with co-workers at ABC Redemption Cente
"Talk" piece with Bob Fournier, who drives a 29-foot limousine for Custom Limous
"Talk" piece with Bob Thurston, 77, of Portland, who for three years has been le
"Talk" piece with Carol Rainey, a practicing parapsychologist and a student of r
"Talk" piece with Carolyn Perry, 43, of Westbrook, one of 108 directory asistanc
"Talk" piece with Chan Bearce, 50, the head pro at Tennis of Maine in Falmouth a
"Talk" piece with Christina Mason, a junior at Deering High School and one of fo
"Talk" piece with color consultant Sherry DeFilipp.
"Talk" piece with Dominic and Sandy Candelmo, who run Grippo's Shoe Repair on Oa
"Talk" piece with Dr. Thomas Judd of Falmouth, a veterinarian who has added the
"Talk" piece with Floyd Hartford, a Portland fire fighter who runs Top Knotch Au
"Talk" piece with Fritzi Russell, 83, of Gorham, who competed in figure skating
"Talk" piece with Gene Germain, who has sold wigs from his second-floor shop at
"Talk" piece with Gene Golden, who has operated the Golden School of Tai Chi Chu
"Talk" piece with Gene Norris, a tractor-trailer driver's education teacher at N
"Talk" piece with George and Sonya Libby of Portland, who own a house overlookin
"Talk" piece with James Blow, 30, who with brothers Steven, 26, and Jon, 25, run
"Talk" piece with Jesus Suarez, 41, of Portland, who came to this country from C
"Talk" piece with John "Berry" of Portland, who last week got a job as a carny w
"Talk" piece with John Bradford, 72, of Falmouth, a puppeteer, engineer and inve
"Talk" piece with John Gallagher, 41, of Portland, a free-lance cartoonist who h
"Talk" piece with John Shaw of Portland, who in 1985 with his wife Jane founded
"Talk" piece with Josie Conte, 33, of Portland, who teaches belly dancing and ha
"Talk" piece with Julia Pozzy, 31, who runs Sparks Dating Service. Pozzy arrang
"Talk" piece with Ken Weber, who runs a genetics lab at the University of Southe
"Talk" piece with Kim Volk, an office administrator for a Portland law firm, who
"Talk" piece with Kris Eckhardt of Portland, who along with business partner Dav
"Talk" piece with Linda Crowley, who calls herself "The Dog Lady." Crowley runs
"Talk" piece with lobsterman Skip Werner, a 1968 graduate of the Maine Maritime
"Talk" piece with Madeline Ireland, owner of My Sister's Closet, a clothing cons
"Talk" piece with Michael Furey, owner of Ireland's Crystal and Crafts, a specia
"Talk" piece with Mike Wozich, 42, who has been driving a cab in Portland for 17
"Talk" piece with Obie Filbrook, a tow-truck driver who makes his money by towin
"Talk" piece with Phillip Chetwynd of Portland, an Abraham Lincoln impersonator.
"Talk" piece with Rich McInnis, the first male aesthetician licensed by the stat
"Talk" piece with Rick and Song, aspiring members of the "True Kingdom of God,"
"Talk" piece with Rick Frost, who has been selling and leasing copiers for Kemco
"Talk" piece with Ripon and Jessie Haskell, both in their late 60s and active in
"Talk" piece with Rocky and Rusty Whynot. Rocky, 3, has an average candlepin bo
"Talk" piece with Romaine Simenson, a Vogue cover girl in 1953.
"Talk" piece with Ruth E. Brown, 83, of Portland, a school crossing guard in the
"Talk" piece with Ruth Morrison, an automobile mechanic at Black Bear Car Care o
"Talk" piece with Schyla Duffy St. Laurent, 39, of South Portland, a midwife who
"Talk" piece with Scott Talbot, who works at the Free Street parking lot between
"Talk" piece with Sister Mary Jo, a native of Westbrook and superior of Portland
"Talk" piece with Troy Andrews, 28, who has been tending bar since 1984.
"Talk" piece with Troy Landwehr, 23, of Cumberland Center, who for about a year
The city of Portland on October 7 removed the benches from Longfellow Square bec
The federal Environmental Protection Agency on April 19 released its annual Toxi
The Good Day Market has delayed for at least a year plans to leave its Brackett
The Gulf of Maine Aquarium is studying possible sites for a $40 million facility
The husband-wife team of Michael Levine and Elizabeth Buchsbaum are behind Oak S
The Maine Broadcasting System, which owns WCSH-TV Channel 6 in Portland, wouldn'
The Maine Department of Transportation has hired Garrand & Co., an Auburn-based
The Maine Office of Substance Abuse in December will draft new regulations to ba
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court ruled on October 27 that the trial judge in the
The medical staff of Maine Medical Center on September 9 voted 80-79 against a m
The Mountain Division Alliance, a new coalition of municipal, state and private
The Natural Resources Council of Maine is urging the Maine State Board of Educat
The nonpartisan Money and Politics Project on Tuesday released a report showing
The Portland Area Comprehensive Transportation Study Committee on August 18 rele
The Portland Press Herald's story on the difficulties between the Maine Departme
The Portland School Department is renting the Sacred Heart School at Mellen and
The Portland Sea Dogs are in last place in the Eastern League's Northern Divisio
The proposed Eastern Prom trail, stretching from the Franklin Arterial around to
The renovation of the Edward T. Gignoux federal courthouse in Portland began Aug
The State Board of Property Tax Review on July 25 ruled unanimously in favor of
The union covering 275 employees at the Hannaford Bros. distribution center in S
Thore Aatlo, the Old Port jeweler who last year was jailed and fined for harassi
U.S. represenative Thomas Andrews, who is facing U.S. represenative Olympia Snow
"Voters' Guide" issue, with related articles on U.S. Senate candidates Thomas An
Workers at St. Joseph's Manor in Portland voted 151-29 against joining Teamsters
"Art" piece on the exhibit of paintings of people infected with HIV or AIDS by B, Melissa Ames
Review of "Art's Lament: Creativity in the Face of Death," currently showing at, Melissa Ames
"Art & Soul" piece on the life of the bouncers in Portland's nightclubs., Christopher Barry
The Portland area has four colleges, with 11,602 students enrolled, but the city, Christopher Barry
Profile of Jerry Genesio, 55, of Sweden, founder of Veterans for Peace. The Por, Tom Brophy
"Citizen" piece on Casco Bay island life and some of the motives behind the move, L M. Burke
"Citizen" piece by Pamela Cahill, the Republican leader of the Maine Senate, ber, Pamela Cahill
Letter to the editor from Alan Caron on Joe Brennan and what he has to offer the, Alan Caron
Letter to the editor from independent gubernatorial candidate Jonathan Carter on, Jonathan Carter
Letter to the editor from independent gubernatorial candidate Jonathan Carter, r, Jonathan Carter
Letter to the editor from Jonathan Carter, independent candidate for governor, i, Jonathan Carter
Maine Businesses for Social Responsibility was formed one year ago. It evolved, Kenneth Z. Chutchian