Portland's long time newspaper of record, the Portland Press-Herald, began printing in November 1921 as Guy Patterson Gannett's merging of the Portland Daily Press (which began in 1862), and the Portland Herald (which was a short-lived successor of the Eastern Argus, which began in 1803). Gannett later purchased the Portland Evening Express, and the Portland Sunday Telegram, and by the 1940s, the Press-Herald as we know it today took shape as a daily newspaper.

The Library's Portland Room provides access to the complete run of the Press-Herald (as well as the Evening Express and Sunday Telegram, along with their predecessor newspapers) on microfilm.
An additional electronic resource, offering the Press-Herald fulltext, beginning in 1995 is the Maine Newsstand database, freely accessible in Maine via Digital Maine Library.

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Submissions from 1994

 

Gov. John McKernan this week will convene a State House summit to explore how be

 

Gov John McKernan, two of his aides and representatives from ten Maine companie

 

Gov. John McKernan yesterday announced that the Maine State Police will work ove

 

Gov John McKernan yesterday said he has no plans at this time to seek political

 

Gov. John R. McKernan failed to attend yesterday's Potato Industry Banquet in Fo

 

Gov. John R. McKernan has decided not to attend the signing of a sister-state ag

 

Gov. John R. McKernan yesterday announced that he has nominated Donald H. Marden

 

Gov. John R. McKernan yesterday nominated Maine Supreme Court justice Samuel W.

 

Gov. McKernan has agreed to allow the Maine National Guard to assist in moving 1

 

Gov McKernan has been selling the idea of total quality management to state gov

 

Gov McKernan has requested nearly $18 million in additional appropriations thro

 

Gov. McKernan held a news conference yesterday during which he outlined a state

 

Gov McKernan, in yesterday's State of the State address to the Legislature, pro

 

Gov. McKernan is asking the Legislature to appropriate $400,000 to fund a propos

 

Gov. McKernan is planning to introduce welfare reform measures that would reward

 

Gov McKernan last week proposed a supplemental state budget of $18 million, wit

 

Gov. McKernan met with Passamaquoddy Indian leaders and California developer Sid

 

Gov McKernan, responding to critics of his proposal to cut state income taxes,

 

Gov. McKernan said that should U.S. Senator George J. Mitchell be appointed to t

 

Gov McKernan said yesterday that he will seek a reduction in personal income ta

 

Gov McKernan's Project Opportunity plan would expand the ASPIRE training progra

 

Gov. McKernan's proposal to allow Louisiana-Pacific Corp. to use pollution credi

 

Gov McKernan's proposal to freeze state income tax collections to gradually cut

 

Gov McKernan's supplemental budget, released in its final form yesterday, would

 

Gov McKernan's trade mission to South America has resulted in two Maine compani

 

Gov. McKernan yesterday announced a proposed program that would offer free job t

 

Gov McKernan yesterday announced proposals aimed at bringing welfare recipients

 

Gov. McKernan yesterday announced that Maine Department of Transportation Commis

 

Gov McKernan yesterday announced the creation of the 12-member Commission to Pr

 

Gov McKernan yesterday launched the "Total Quality Maine" campaign, a nearly $1

 

Gov McKernan yesterday said he could support a gambling casino operated by the

 

Gov. McKernan yesterday signed into law a bill that sets minimum education stand

 

G. Paul Waterhouse, 51, of Bridgton yesterday won the Republican nomination in s

 

Granger Northern Inc., a Portland contracting company, has been awarded a $9.1 m

 

Granite State Gas Transmission is interested in installing one, and possibly two

 

Greater Portland Landmarks on Saturday will hold their first "The Everything and

 

Greater Portland Landmarks raised $20,000 yesterday at its "Everything AND the K

 

Greater Portland received 1.25 inches of rain in June, the least amount since 19

 

Greenville businessman Glenn MacNaughton yesterday announced that he has registe

 

Greg and Deborah Young of Raymond, whose 16-year-old daughter Ellen died last wi

 

Gregg Allman, co-founder, singer and keyboardist for the Allman Brothers Band, T

 

Gregory Mitchell, 26, was sentenced in Penobscot County Superior Court yesterday

 

Gregory W. Powell and Robert Goldman, both residents of Bowery Beach Road in Cap

 

Gritty McDuff's, Maine's original brew pub, is launching McDuff's Best Bitter, t

 

Group Three Inc of Portland has been making canvas tote bags for 15 years, and

 

Gubernatorial candidates Joseph Brennan, a Democrat, and independent Angus King

 

Guest column by Joseph K. Loughlin, a detective sergeant in the Portland Police

 

Guy Edwards Jr., 70, of Ellsworth, was killed yesterday when he breathed in a ba

 

Habitat for Humanity of Greater Portland as of yesterday had raised $21,000 towa

 

Habitat for Humanity of Greater Portland yesterday announced that it is out of m

 

Hancock Timber Resource Group, a unit of John Hancock Financial Services of Bost

 

Handwriting, which used to be taught in the classroom, has fallen out of vogue o

 

Hannaford Bros. Co. of Scarborough announced yesterday that it will pay $120 mil

 

Hannaford Bros Co of Scarborough reported profits increased 153 percent from

 

Hannaford Bros. Co., owners of the Shop 'n Save supermarket chain, and Shaw's Su

 

Hannaford Bros. Co., Shaw's Supermarkets Inc. and Cumberland Farms have all drop

 

Hannaford Bros of Scarborough has reached an agreement with Scientific-Atlanta

 

Hapag-Lloyd, the ocean shipping company that provides regularly scheduled freigh

 

Happy Wheels Skate Center, one of the first businesses to open in 1980 on Payne

 

Harland Hatch, executive vice president and chief operating officer of Bath Iron

 

Harley Lee, president of Endless Energy Corp. of New Gloucester, on Monday said

 

Harley Lee, president of Endless Energy Corp. of New Gloucester, yesterday said

 

Harold Marden founded Marden's Surplus and Salvage store in Fairfield nearly 30

 

Harold Marden, Republican state senator from Albion and owner of the Marden's di

 

Harold Paulson, 83, a retired Portland High School swimming coach, will receive

 

Harold Phillips, 29, of Portland, the editor of Golf Course News in Yarmouth, fo

 

Harpswell residents attending a special meeting endorsed placing a question on t

 

Harrah's, the casino division of The Promus Companies, on Tuesday announced that

 

Harriett S. Peterson, 53, a computer aide at Portland's Training Resource Center

 

Harris Baking Co. of Waterville yesterday filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 7 o

 

Harry Cowles of California was the original owner of Resorts Development Corp.,

 

Harry Masters, 80, of Bristol, is attending ceremonies in France commemorating t

 

Harvard Community Health Plan of Boston and Matthew Thornton Health Plan of Nash

 

Harvey Prager, a convicted drug smuggler who avoided jail time by agreeing to wo

 

H. Donald DeMatteis, Maine's superintendent of banking, does not believe that ba

 

H. Donald DeMatteis, superintendent of the Maine Bureau of Banking, yesterday sa

 

Healthsource Maine Inc. has won a contract to offer an insurance plan combining

 

Heidi Tobiason, 11, of Yarmouth, was killed yesterday afternoon at the Exit 9 to

 

Helen Johnson and Earl McCann, who settled in Portland four years ago, traveled

 

Herbert Stern of Boston, the former chief executive officer of John Roberts, and

 

Heroin use in Portland has grown dramatically in recent years due to the fact th

 

Hilary Whitmore, 10, of Raymond, came out of intensive care at the University of

 

Hillary Rodham Clinton, who is in Maine today to attend a health- care forum at

 

Hockey East athletic directors yesterday voted to keep the University of Maine's

 

Holt Hughes & Stamell Inc, a small Portland advertising agency, is the American

 

Homeopathy, a controversial and holistic system of medicine that uses minimal do

 

Home-Vision Video, Maine's largest video retailer, said yesterday that three nat

 

Home-Vision Video, the Brunswick-based chain with 22 stores, announced yesterday

 

House Speaker John Martin and members of the Democratic Party yesterday reached

 

House Speaker John Martin has accepted a position with the Democratic National C

 

House Speaker John Martin on yesterday offered to resign his position at the end

 

House Speaker John Martin will meet today with a group of Democrats to discuss a

 

Housing Solutions of Scarborough is receiving $168 million in Farmers Home Admi

 

Housing starts in southern and central Maine fell 10 percent in 1993, to 1,622,

 

Housing starts locally were up 18 percent for the first three months of 1994, to

 

Hrvoje Vulic, an 18-year-old Croat spending the spring semester at Freeport High

 

Hugh Farrington, president and chief executive officer of Hannaford Bros. of Sca

 

Hugh Flynn, a resident of the Thornton Heights neighborhood of South Portland, i

 

Hundreds of Mainers diagnosed with schizophrenia began taking clozapine shortly

 

Hundreds of Maine workers exposed to asbestos while working at Bath Iron Works,