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 First Parish Church in Portland will unveil its new $300,000 organ on Sunday

The first phase of construction on the new Portland-South Portland Bridge is sch

The First Unitarian Universalist Church in Yarmouth will dedicate a two-story, 4

The five Democratic gubernatorial candidates have to date spent a collective $80

The five-member Committee to Study Organizational and Tax Issues in Public Schoo

The five-member Harpswell Conservation Commission, appointed by the Board of Sel

The Florida Marlins have offered Portland Sea Dogs owner Daniel B. Burke a two-y

The foliage this fall will not be as spectacular as some years because of the dr

The food court at the Maine Mall in South Portland, remodeled as part of a nearl

The former naval prison at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard is being evaluated by t

The former Portland Stove Foundry on Kennebec Street in Portland yesterday was t

The former Riverton Trolley Park is being restored as part of the project to wid

The Fort Fairfield Chamber of Commerce on June 29 cancelled an invitation to Gov

The Foundation for Blood Research in Scarborough has won a $175,000 grant from t

The Foundation for Blood Research in Scarborough since last April has collected

The four-member panel assembled to study the Maine State Retirement System has r

The four Republican candidates for the 2nd District congressional seat being vac

The Franklin County Children's Task Force runs a program called Parent to Parent

The Freeport Town Council last night voted 5-2 against holding an executive sess

The Freeport Town Council on Tuesday said it would apply for a state grant that

The Freeport Town Council on Wednesday decided to add a new peddler spot at Mill

The Freeport Town Council will vote tonight on the 1994-95 school and municipal

The Freeport Town Council yesterday was presented with a petition signed by 314

The Friends of Evergreen, a nonprofit group dedicated to preserving Portland's E

The Friends of Evergreen Cemetery will today recognize the 800 Civil War veteran

The General Accounting Office, an investigative agency of the Congress, this wee

The Gorham High School Odyssey of the Mind team is one of 13 Maine teams in thre

The Gorham police department might be forced to abandon its community policing p

The Gorham Town Council, which, under the town charter, must adopt a budget by J

The Gorham Town Council yesterday heard almost unanimous opposition to a propose

The Grace Bible Fellowship church in Rockland has asked city officials to revoke

The Greater Portland Economic Development Council was founded around a year ago

The Greater Portland United Way collected $5,854,617 during its 1993-94 campaign

The Great Salt Bay Sanitary District on Thursday took by eminent domain control

The Greely High School Rangers yesterday defeated the Lincoln Academy Eagles by

The groundfish committee of the New England Fishery Management Council yesterday

The Guild of Maine Woodworkers, formed to promote woodworking and to sell member

The Gulf of Maine Aquarium Development Corp., the group pushing to bring an aqua

The Happy Landing restaurant in Eastport has a board in its entry way that offer

The Happy Landings restaurant in Eastport features a board offering cassette tap

The "HIV/AIDS--From 'They' to 'We'" conference held recently at Portland's Sones

The Holiday Inn by the Bay in Portland wants to covert about 12,000-square-feet

The Industrial Energy Consumers Group is appealing the recent Maine Public Utili

The Inn at Spring Point will open on May 1 -- The eight room hotel, part of the P

The inspector general of the Pentagon has proposed that the Navy reduce the numb

The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 567 in Falmouth has a

The Island Institute, a non-profit organization based in Rockland, is proposing

The Island Institute in Rockland was founded ten years ago by Philip Conkling, 4

The Japanese Ministry of Finance announced today that Unum Life has been granted

The Japanese Ministry of Finance yesterday announced that it has given permissio

The June 7 edition of the Weekly World News supermarket tabloid alleges that 12

The Junior League has teamed up with the Youth Family and Outreach agency, forme

The Kennebec Valley YMCA has filed suit in Kennebec County Superior Court agains

The Knox Woolen Mill in Camden, now the office of MBNA America Bank, is a symbol

The Kotzschmar Organ's last winter season begins on Tuesday with a concert by Ru

The Land for Maine's Future Board will meet March 25 to consider a proposal to a

The Land for Maine's Future Board yesterday voted to spend $775,000 for an easem

The larval form of the brown-tail moth, an inch-long brown caterpillar with two

The last aircraft from Loring Air Force Base in Limestone, a KC-135R refueling t

The last in a series of articles about southern Maine's high school class of 199

The latest Press Herald poll, carried out in conjunction with the Central Maine

The Lawrence High School girls basketball team won its fourth straight Class A b

The lawyer for the Rev. Antonin R. Caron, 51, who is charged with gross sexual a

The leaders of Local 6 of the International Association of Machinists, the large

The League of Women Voters yesterday sponsored a 90-minute debate at One City Ce

"The Legal List, Law-Related Resources on the Internet and Elsewhere," which all

The legislative committee studying the state's new automobile emissions testing

The Legislature is currently considering three different education funding plans

The Legislature last year created the 13-member Groundfish Hatchery Study Commis

The Legislature's Aging, Retirement and Veterans Committee yesterday heard detai

The Legislature's Appropriations Committee yesterday approved a $15 million supp

The Legislature's Appropriations Committee yesterday unanimously approved a $14

The Legislature's Audit and Program Review Committee has initiated a six-month i

The Legislature's Banking and Insurance Committee last week voted to support leg

The Legislature's Banking and Insurance Committee yesterday approved the appoint

The Legislature's Business Legislation committee will tomorrow consider the prop

The Legislature's Education Committee yesterday discussed more efficient uses of

The Legislature's Energy and Natural Resources Committee has voted unanimously t

The Legislature's Energy and Natural Resources Committee yesterday endorsed a co

The Legislature's Energy and Natural Resources Committee yesterday expressed sup

The Legislature's Human Resources Committee yesterday unanimously endorsed the n

The Legislature's Judiciary Committee is currently considering a bill that would

The Legislature's Judiciary Committee on Thursday supported a bill that will all

The Legislature's Judiciary Committee yesterday held a hearing on a bill sponsor

The Legislature's Judiciary Committee yesterday voted 11-0 to recommend that the

The Legislature's Judiciary Committee yesterday voted 7-4 in favor of a bill aut

The Legislature's Marine Resources Committee yesterday held a public hearing on

The Legislature's Taxation Committee yesterday considered a bill that would allo

The Legislature's Taxation Committee yesterday gave its unanimous support to a p

The Legislature's Transportation Committee yesterday unanimously agreed to allow

The Legislature yesterday approved a bill that allows education tax breaks for c

The Legislature yesterday approved an additional $7 million in state aid for loc

The Lewiston boys and the Caribou girls won the state Class A team tennis champi

The Libertarian Party of Maine will today sponsor the Maine Liberty Forum at Por

The library at Greely High School in Cumberland loses an estimated 400 to 500 bo

The library building committee designing a new branch library for Deering Center

Thelma Ditzel, 72, of Charleston, retired back to her home town in 1988 after 43

The low bid for renovating Portland's Lincoln Middle School was $2.77 million fr

The Maine Alliance and the Maine Chamber of Commerce and Industry earlier this y

The Maine Alliance and the Maine Chamber of Commerce and Industry yesterday unve