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

 

Paul Rollins, 42, of York, on Friday was driving to a fishing camp in northern M

 

Paul's Food Center at 290 Congress Street closed for good on Tuesday night, 14 y

 

Paul Sykes, 25, in 1989 was sentenced to 12 years in prison after pleading guilt

 

Paul V. Sykes, 25, a convicted child molester barred from contacting children wh

 

Paul Watson, 19, Seth Richardson, 21, and Solomon Richardson, 19, all of Cornish

 

Penobscot County Superior Court justice Andrew Mead ruled this week that jurors

 

Penobscot County Superior Court justice Robert Browne yesterday sentenced Dale W

 

Penobscot County Superior Court justice Robert L Browne yesterday granted the U

 

"People and Politics" piece on Gov McKernan's recent trade mission to South Ame

 

"People and Politics" piece on last week's legislative override of Gov. McKernan

 

People from away are paying premium prices for a piece of Chebeague Island, putt

 

People's Heritage Bank has filed suit against Paul E Pangburn of Orono to recov

 

Peoples Heritage Bank said yesterday that it plans to open a 400-square-foot bra

 

Peoples Heritage Financial Group lost $44.7 million in the quarter ending Septem

 

Peoples Heritage Financial Group yesterday announced that it will handle payment

 

Peoples Heritage Financial Group yesterday posted its first annual profit since

 

Peoples Heritage Financial Group yesterday said it would resume dividend payment

 

Peoples Heritage stock has climbed more than ten percent this week on brisk trad

 

Pepperell Trust Co of Biddeford yesterday named John C Everett IV, 38, as its

 

Perma Treat Corp. of Connecticut last week announced that it would take over the

 

Perma Treat Corp. of Connecticut yesterday announced that it has agreed to purch

 

Persis Strong, vice president of marketing at Binax Inc. of South Portland, in M

 

Peter Bowman of Kittery, a member of the 1993 federal Base Closure and Realignme

 

Peter L. Woodbury, 35, of Windham, the driver of the pickup truck involved in a

 

Peter McCarron, food stamp director for the state Department of Human Services,

 

Peter N. Connell, a 20-year veteran of the manufactured housing industry who in

 

Peter Thurrell, 30, of Falmouth, a Bowdoin College graduate, spent four months l

 

Peter W. Cox, a co-founder of the Maine Times, says he was forced out as editor

 

Peter W. Evans, lawyer for Winfield Doyle Jr., said that society would be better

 

Philanthropist Elizabeth B. Noyce has donated $600,000 to the Damariscotta River

 

Philip A. Destefano, Jr., 39, of Lewiston, escaped from the new $27 million Cumb

 

Philip Destefano Jr., 39, of Lewiston, the federal prisoner who escaped from the

 

Philip D Spiller, 71, a former Republican mayor of Westbrook, and Kenneth M Le

 

Philip J. Roy, 78, of Sanford, was a rifleman with the 29th Infantry Division af

 

Philip Jutras, a former Maine legislator who for the last two decades has been t

 

Philip Roy, 78, of Sanford, yesterday had a tearful reunion with Claude Ganaye,

 

Philip W. Villandry, 24, of Chebeague Island, yesterday filed suit in Cumberland

 

Phillip Chetwynd, 37, of Portland, has been portraying Abraham Lincoln for six y

 

Phillip Hoose, 46, of Portland, last night received a 1994 Christopher Award for

 

Phillip Lippincott, chairman and chief executive officer of Scott Paper Co, yes

 

Phil Tarr, chairman of the Maine Racing Commission, said the commission will con

 

Pilgrim Health Care Inc. of Norwell, Mass., is negotiating with 10 hospitals and

 

Pilots in the Rangeley area are protesting an Air National Guard plan that would

 

Pine State Recycling of Nobleboro has agreed to pay the state $1 per tire for ev

 

Pine Tree Legal Assistance Inc. this month filed suit in U.S. District Court aga

 

P. James Dowe, Al Stultz, Kristofer Anderson and Gale Harvey are just some of th

 

Planners with Portland and the Maine Department of Transportation have come up w

 

Planners with the Portland Area Comprehensive Transportation Committee recently

 

Plato Truman, 65, of Biddeford, has lost ten campaigns for public office in Main

 

Point Sebago in Casco, at 300 acres Maine's largest camping resort, offers rente

 

Police are investigating an employee of the 150-bed Wood Park Nursing Care Cente

 

Police have arrested 18-year-old Scott Adams of Sanford and charged him with arm

 

Police in Eugene, Oregon, have recently arrested Jeffrey S Sirois, 32, the form

 

Police say that Audra Linkletter, 17, of Athens, the driver of the 1987 Ford Tem

 

Police say that the use of crack cocaine in the area has increased over the last

 

Police theorize that 47-year-old Marianne Pembroke of Waterville, who was found

 

Police yesterday charged Jeffery Phillips, 47, of Portland and James Freeman, 44

 

Police yesterday raided the Brackett Street apartment of Christopher George, 33,

 

Political analysts believe that in nominating Joseph E. Brennan and Susan Collin

 

Porteous, Mitchell & Braun Co., which has seven stores in northern New England,

 

Portland artist Henry Wolyniec today will begin installing his temporary sculptu

 

Portland attorney Daniel Lilley yesterday bid $175 million for the 200-seat Cha

 

Portland City Council District 1 candidates John Connors and Michael A. Keever h

 

Portland City Councilor Charles W. Harlow, the chairman of the council's Public

 

Portland City Councilor Jack Dawson yesterday proposed limiting new group homes

 

Portland city councilors met with members of the school committee's finance pane

 

Portland city manager Robert B. Ganley has recommended four percent raises for f

 

Portland city manager Robert B. Ganley has unveiled a 1994-95 capital improvemen

 

Portland city manager Robert B. Ganley last week wrote a letter to Frank L. Gazi

 

Portland city manager Robert B. Ganley last year launched a project dubbed "Rein

 

Portland city manager Robert B. Ganley this week tallied the bills for the renov

 

Portland city manager Robert B. Ganley, who played the key role in the renovatio

 

Portland city manager Robert Ganley's proposed municipal budget for fiscal year

 

Portland city officials and private fund-raisers yesterday announced a plan unde

 

Portland city officials and the Deering Center library branch committee on Augus

 

Portland city officials are in contact with Land Reclamation Inc of Westbrook o

 

Portland city officials have announced a plan under which baseball fans attendin

 

Portland city workers, responding to requests from Monument Square business owne

 

Portland Design Team, the architects planning the expansion and renovation of Po

 

Portland District Court Judge Alexander MacNichol last week ruled that the curre

 

Portland has added two new parking enforcement officers to the downtown area in

 

Portland has been chosen as one of America's 16 most livable cities by a group c

 

Portland is experiencing a sharp increase in the number of auto break-ins. Thiev

 

Portland lawyer Thomas Allen, who finished second among five candidates in the D

 

Portland Mayor Anne B Pringle and City Councilors Jack Dawson and Charles W Ha

 

Portland Mayor Anne B Pringle assembled a 17-member Industry and Commerce Plan

 

Portland Mayor Anne B. Pringle yesterday announced that she will not seek re-ele

 

Portland officials have abandoned an attempt to require bars and nightclubs to e

 

Portland Pirates hockey team season preview. Includes team roster, schedule, to

 

Portland police are concerned about gang members in the city, who are walking ar

 

Portland police are investigating the background of Carl Bickham, 34, who was li

 

Portland police are investigating the death of Edmund H. Berg, 59, whose decompo

 

Portland police are investigating the theft of $2,120 in clothing and other pers

 

Portland police are investigating whether Sarina Towle, the 2-year-old girl who

 

Portland police chief Michael Chitwood, 50, has been on the job for six years, a

 

Portland police chief Michael Chitwood has askedMichael Carpenter, the state at

 

Portland police chief Michael Chitwood has written to First Lady Hillary Rodham

 

Portland police chief Michael Chitwood violated a city ordinance when he ordered

 

Portland police chief Michael Chitwood yesterday renewed his criticism of the Po

 

Portland police chief Michael Chitwood yesterday said that he expects that two o