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 city of South Portland is looking for tenants for the old Sawyer School, and

The city of Westbrook has hired James L Fisk, 41, as half-time city planner -- F

The Civil War battle flag of the 17th Maine Volunteer Infantry is in the possess

The Clinton administration's plan to reform the welfare system will include a pr

The Coast Guard yesterday received a Mayday call reporting a gunfight off Orrs I

The Cold War years of 1950 to 1962 created a nuclear paranoia among many America

The College Conservation Corps of Maine, now in its second year, employs young p

The Columbus Day weekend has become one of the year's busiest times for the tour

The committee overseeing the expansion and renovation of Portland's three middle

The Committee to Study the Maine State Retirement System yesterday approved the

The Conservation Law Foundation and Apogee Research Inc. of Bethesda, Md., yeste

The Conservation Law Foundation, Trout Unlimited, American Rivers, the American

The "Cops in Shops" program, sponsored by the Portland Project and funded by bee

The Corporation for Enterprise Development, a Washington, D.C., think tank that

The Crotched Mountain Foundation of Greenfield, New Hampshire, plans to build a

The Culture-Foreign Language Program at Scarborough's middle school exposes stud

The Cumberland County Sheriff's Department, which is trying to fill 19 positions

The Cumberland Town Council voted unanimously yesterday to appeal the recent rul

The Cumberland Town Council will now have to decide whether to give police chief

The Cumberland Town Council yesterday voted unanimously to appeal an arbitrator'

The Damariscotta River Association, a land-trust organization, owns or helps pro

The death of Ellen Young, 16, of Raymond, is being blamed on carbon monoxide poi

The debate on whether to distribute condoms to Portland's high school students r

The decline in stocks of groundfish and the development of new federal lobster l

The Democratic State Committee yesterday reaffirmed plans to hold the state's fi

The Department of Defense's plan for the proposed finance center at Loring Air F

The Department of Energy has awarded the Maine Metal Products Association a $500

The design of the new $27.8 million Cumberland County Jail on Ogdensburg Street

The development boom that transformed the town of Windham during the 1970s and 1

The development rights on 1,272 acres of waterfront timberland in the Rangeley L

The Diaz Corp. of Jay submitted a $5,022,900 bid to build a two-gate expansion a

The Diocese of Portland, which in 1965 had 261 priests, now has 147 priests for

The Diversity Leadership Institute is a statewide student group that promotes ha

The Don Law Co. of Cambridge, Mass., is requesting a mass gathering permit from

The Don Law Co. of Massachusetts has filed a concert production plan with the to

The Don Law Co. yesterday announced the 12 shows planned for The Ballpark in Old

The driver of a compact Pontiac and her two passengers died yesterday evening in

The eastern Maine town of Steuben is experiencing a problem with rats, apparentl

The Edward T. Gignoux Courthouse on Federal Street in Portland, built in 1911 at

The eight members of Portland's Friends of the Park Commission voted unanimously

The eight Republican candidates for governor addressed the GOP state convention

The E. Klaman Bottles store on Fore Street in Portland's Old Port area was vanda

The Episcopal Diocese of Maine this month confirmed that the Church of the Holy

The estimated cost of decommissioning the Maine Yankee nuclear power plant have

The exhibit "Watershed Images and Art: People with AIDS," currently showing at t

The Falmouth Town Council yesterday unanimously endorsed a $500,000 bond issue f

The families of Army Master Sgt. Gary Gordon of Lincoln and Sgt. 1st Class Randa

The Family Institute of Maine has honored the Dunn-Wolfe family as Maine's Famil

The Family Living and Human Sexuality Advisory Board, which advises the Portland

The Family Living and Human Sexuality Advisory Board, which advises the Portland

The family of Dorothy Milliken, whose body was found outside a Lewiston laundrom

The family of Douglas Fernald, who was killed in the November 19 crash of an Air

The family of James A. Roe has filed suit in Cumberland County Superior Court ag

The family of Richard West Jr., who disappeared from Fort Bragg, N.C., in 1980 a

The family of Richard West of Sullivan has finally received confirmation that th

The Farmers' Almanac, currently in its 178th year of publication, is launching a

The Farmers Home Administration, which provides low-interest loans for low-incom

The federal Americans with Disabilities Act was passed four years, but many smal

The Federal Aviation Administration has revoked the pilot's license of John G R

The Federal Aviation Administration last week said that the Airmed Skycare Inc

The Federal Aviation Administration said that John G Rafter, who was piloting t

The Federal Aviation Adminstration said yesterday that it will be about a month

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has cleared two Portland police officers of

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating whether Portland police use

The federal Bureau of the Census recently issued a report that named Biddeford a

The federal Clean Air Act of 1990 targeted ground-level ozone on the East Coast

The federal Department of Housing and Urban Development has awarded five souther

The federal Department of Housing and Urban Development has awarded the Westbroo

The federal Economic Development Administration has awarded the town of Pittsfie

The federal Economic Development Agency has invited the city of Lewiston to appl

The Federal Energy Regulation Commission, which is considering the fate of Edwar

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has dismissed a complaint filed by the

The federal Environmental Protection Agency on Monday recommended that well owne

The federal Environmental Protection Agency says Louisiana-Pacific Corp.'s plant

The federal Environmental Protection Agency yesterday announced a program under

The federal Environmental Protection Agency yesterday released a study that reaf

The federal Environmental Protection Agency yesterday said it was serious about

The federal Farmers Home Administration has denied an application from Gleichman

The federal Farmers Home Administration yesterday announced that effective Augus

The federal General Services Administration has cut the budget to renovate the E

The federal government's failure to act on health-care reform puts the issue bac

The federal government yesterday opened the Fishing Family Assistance Center, lo

The federal Internal Revenue Service is planning on targeting Maine fishermen, c

The federal Interstate Commerce Commission on Wednesday held a hearing on Canadi

The federal Labor Department last week concluded that shoe workers laid off by S

The federally funded, nonprofit Rural Health Centers, based in Manchester, is op

The federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission recently released its Systematic Asses

The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston has approved a plan under which a group of Po

The federal Rural Development Administration yesterday notified U.S. senator Geo

The film "Maine Survivors Remember the Holocaust," a project of the Holocaust Hu

The final deer kill tally for the 1993 hunting season was 27,402, with 692 deer

The Finance Authority of Maine and Apparel Management Group, the lead investor f

The Finance Authority of Maine estimates that Maine college students this year w

The Finance Authority of Maine yesterday revoked the eligibility of the Career I

The Finance Authority of Maine yesterday unanimously approved a $64 million loan

The Fine Arts Improvement Team consists of three South Portland High School soph

The fire that destroyed Bridgton's Portland Street Plaza on Saturday has left se

The first ever Chinese language immersion school organized by the Penobscot Scho

The first major snowfall of the season resulted in a parking ban in Portland whi

The first of five articles running this week profiling the Democratic gubernator