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

The 10 Lithuanian friars and 16 student priests at the Franciscan Monastery in K

The 110-foot U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Wrangell and its 16 crewmen yesterday retur

The 13th annual Deering Oaks Family Festival opened yesterday, the last time the

The 13th annual United Bikers of Maine Toy Run will be held in Augusta on Sunday

The 167-year-old Wedding Cake House in Kennebunk, known for its Gothic spires an

The 177-foot, three-masted Gazela, a square-rigged sailing ship built in 1883, y

The 18,000-member Episcopal Diocese of Maine, through its Native American Projec

The 19-member panel charged with finding a solution to the siting of group homes

The 2,000 gallons of mineral oil that leaked from a broken heat exchanger at Cen

The 2.7-mile Topsham-Brunswick bypass, also known as the Coastal Connector, is e

The 3,800-acre Penobscot Experimental Forest, which straddles Bradley and Edding

The .38-caliber revolver used in the July 18 shooting death of 15-year-old Shann

The 39 elm trees lining Shore Road across from the entrance to Cape Elizabeth's

The 441-foot SS Jeremiah O'Brien, the last original Liberty Ship and one of 236

The 514-foot Silver Cloud, a 6-month-old, 296-passenger cruise ship, yesterday s

The 592-foot USS Fairfax County, commissioned in 1971, will visit Portland in Ma

The 65 public schools in Maine that offered driver education programs during 199

The $87.3 million package of bond issues on the November 8 ballot represents the

The 8-year-old Biddeford boy charged with felony arson for allegedly setting Mon

The 8-year-old Maine State Ballet has signed a five-year lease on the former For

The accounting firm of Runyon, Kersteen, Ouellette and Lessard says the city of

The American Center for Law and Justice, a Virginia-based group that argues reli

The American Lung Association of Maine has produced a 30-minute video entitled "

The American Lung Association yesterday released a report identifying the areas

The American National Can Co. plant in Portland has closed, leaving 13 workers w

The Androscoggin County Sheriff's Department is trying to determine whether Depu

The annual report from the state Bureau of Banking says that commercial lending

The annual wish list of a coalition of environmental groups urges Congress to us

The Aquarium Development Corp., which is trying to bring a Gulf of Maine Aquariu

The archaeological dig below the Great Falls Dam in Windham, which Central Maine

The area is experiencing the fourth coldest January in 54 years of record-keepin

The Atlantic salmon, which once thrived in streams from Nova Scotia to southern

The Auburn School Department's bus garage is the site of the WasteShare Resource

The average length of time it takes to sell a home in southern Maine has decline

The Bar Harbor-based Wild Blueberry Association of North America has launched a

The Bartlett Circle affordable housing project in Yarmouth, built in the 1970s w

The Bath City Council last night voted 5-1 in favor of paying Bath Iron Works $5

The Bath City Council last night voted 7-0 to let voters decide on the city's ag

The battle for the Maine House seat from the Standish area is one of three close

The BEST (Business and Education Striving Together) Foundation last week spo

The Bible Society of Maine last week named Wayne Santos, 36, a Scarborough minis

The Biddeford City Council will vote tonight on the appointment of Bruce Benway,

The Biddeford School Board last night sent the issue of a proposed repeal of the

The Biddeford School Board yesterday voted 6-1 to continue the ban on hats at Bi

The board of directors of Consumers Water Co. last Saturday voted to increase th

The board of the Finance Authority of Maine yesterday proposed a rule that would

The board of the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency yesterday voted 7-4 in favor of A

The board of trustees of the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences has decided a

The body of a 56-year-old Scarborough woman was discovered yesterday morning on

The body of an infant was found wrapped in plastic in an abandoned 1984 Ford Esc

The body of Crystal Perry, 30, of Bridgton, was found by Perry's 12-year-old dau

The body of Tammy Dickson, 22, of South Portland, was found bound and gagged in

The body of Thomas Napier, 23, of Lyman, was found yesterday in the Saco River b

The Boulos Co has signed up with the Commercial Network, a non-profit real esta

The Bowdoin College campus in Brunswick is hosting the New England Yearly Meetin

The Boy Singers of Maine choir is finishing its 15th season, and the 61 members

The Brady Bill became effective in Maine last Monday, and has already prevented

The bridge on Route 231 in North Yarmouth will be reopened next week, and is one

The Brunswick School Board yesterday voted unanimously to hire James L Ashe as

The Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust and the Maine Conservation Corps last week bega

The Cage, an alcohol-free Portland dance club in Portland's Old Port, has applie

The Canadian government in 1992 unveiled a $15 million program to develop recrea

The Cape Elizabeth Planning Board has endorsed a set of zoning regulations inten

The Cape Elizabeth Planning Board last night voted 3-2 in favor of approving a p

The Cape Elizabeth School Board is considering converting the town's three schoo

The Cape Elizabeth School Board is trying to deal with what amounts to teacher s

The Cape Elizabeth School Board last night voted 7-0 to award an $8.6 million co

The Cape Elizabeth Town Council on Monday will vote on a recommendation by Town

The Cape Elizabeth Town Council was presented with a report last week recommendi

The Career Institute of Sanford, a vocational school, has the highest student de

The carnival worker stabbed to death early Monday morning at the Cumberland Fair

The Casco Bay Educational Alliance, consisting of Falmouth, Yarmouth, Freeport,

The Casco Bay Educational Alliance, consisting of Falmouth, Yarmouth, Freeport,

The Center for Behavioral Health, Inc. of Rhode Island yesterday opened the stat

The Center for Creative Imaging in Camden, a training facility on the forefront

The Center for Defense Industry, a group of defense analysts based in Washington

The Center for Grieving Children, which currently has around 100 children enroll

The Chamber of Commerce yesterday announced that after this year it will no long

The Champion paper mill in Bucksport has asked for a review of its valuations fo

The Channel Crossing restaurant and marina in South Portland will be auctioned o

The Chapman Corp. of Portland was founded in 1904 by William Chapman, an electri

The children of Eleanor H. Smith, the Freeport woman who in 1984 donated Wolfe's

The Children's Museum of Maine in Portland is currently hosting an exhibit of li

The Children's Museum of Maine this Saturday celebrates its one-year anniversary

The Children's Museum of Maine yesterday celebrated its first anniversary at the

The Children's Museum of Maine yesterday unveiled its new hands-on exhibit, "Anc

The cities of Portland and South Portland are asking the Maine Supreme Judicial

The city of Bath has filed a suit in Kennebec County Superior Court against the

The city of Bath has traditionally provided services to its surrounding towns, i

The city of Bath on Monday asked the state Board of Property Tax Review to recon

The city of Portland each year spends $23,000 for coffee for municipal meetings

The city of Portland has agreed to be the license holder for an AM radio station

The city of Portland has applied for a $1.4 million lead-abatement grant from th

The city of Portland has formed the Family Violence Collaborative, a community-w

The city of Portland has hired Scott Stoll, 40, to spend time in Monument Square

The city of Portland is reorganizing the Department of Parks and Public Works, w

The city of Portland plans to spend more than $370,000 to install 54 decorative

The city of Portland since 1990 has vacuumed leaves from in front of residences,

The city of Portland today will apply for a $300,000 federal highway enhancement

The city of South Portland began advertising for a new police chief on May 15, b