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 Maine Sunday Telegram and the Portland Press Herald were named 1994 "Newspap

The Maine Sunday Telegram last week put a 1986 Ford Escort through all seven of

The Maine Supreme Court yesterday refused to hear the town of Cumberland's appea

The Maine Supreme Court yesterday upheld the right of state inspectors to enter

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court has overturned three guilty verdicts since Apri

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court on Tuesday threw out the multiple gross sexual

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court yesterday declined to rule on legal isues surro

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court yesterday denied an appeal by Charles FitzGeral

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court yesterday denied a request by Central Maine Pow

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court yesterday denied a request by the Aseptic Packa

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court yesterday denied the appeal of Dennis Dechaine,

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court yesterday denied the appeal of James Hart, 37,

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court yesterday issued a unanimous decision upholding

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court yesterday rejected a claim by Pine Tree Telepho

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court yesterday revived the lawsuit of Thomas Devine,

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court yesterday ruled against the heirs of Elizabeth

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court yesterday ruled that cameras and microphones wi

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court yesterday ruled that C.N. Brown Co. is not resp

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court yesterday ruled that Kenneth Waldo Emerson, who

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court yesterday ruled that Mark A McAfee waited too

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court yesterday ruled that workers who were disabled

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court yesterday threw out the convictions of Bryan Bo

The Maine Task Force on Year Round Education has issued a report recommending th

The Maine Taxpayers Action Network, a coalition of 83 local citizen groups, this

The Maine Taxpayers Action Network, a coalition of local taxpayer organizations,

The Maine Technical College System yesterday selected the town of Wells as the s

The Maine Turnpike Authority is asking the city of Portland for input on the loc

The Maine Turnpike Authority wants to build two new interchanges in the Greater

The Maine Women's Health Study, which involved 798 Maine women between the ages

The Maine Youth Center and the Androscoggin County Jail are the only facilities

The major league baseball strike has affected some fans in Portland, but others

The Maraloi family of Romania, whose appeal for asylum was denied by Canadian au

The Marriott Corp., which holds a monopoly on restaurants along the Maine Turnpi

The Massachusetts ports of New Bedford and Gloucester are studying Portland's Fi

The May Neilson ratings show that the WCSH (Channel 6) 6 P.M. news now holds the

The McKernan administration is pushing the School Finance Act of 1994, which wou

The McKernan administration yesterday announced that a $27 million state surplus

The Metro bus system has received a federal grant that will cover 80 percent of

The Millinocket Whitewater Association has proposed a two-day whitewater rodeo o

The most recent storm to hit the state left the area with nearly 10 inches of sn

The murder and robbery trial of Dana A Craney, 31, of Lewiston, and Willard Eas

The murder trial of William Bruns, 62, of South Portland, is scheduled to begin

The National Collegiate Athletic Association has named Neile Joler, a Fort Kent

The National Collegiate Athletic Association will begin a three-day visit to the

The National Collegiate Athletic Association yesterday announced that the Univer

The National Council on Compensation Insurance, in its annual filing with the Ma

The National Education Commission on Time and Learning was convened by Congress

The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a $250,000 grant to the Un

The National Environmental Law Center and the U.S. Public Interest Research Grou

The National Marine Fisheries Service has released statistics showing that diver

The National Marine Fisheries Service yesterday released preliminary figures tha

The National Organization for Women, the nation's largest feminist group, today

The National Park Service has awarded the Penobscot Indian tribe a $49,000 grant

The National Park Service has proposed building three Acadian culture centers in

The National Park Service on Wednesday held a hearing to gather information on i

The National Research Council yesterday released a report that says bluefin tuna

The National Rifle Association is taking issue with John Albrecht, who claims to

The National Rifle Association today will try to convince the Maine Supreme Judi

The National Science Foundation yesterday awarded a $927,000 grant to School Adm

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) yesterday ruled that John G. "Se

The national Unitarian Universalist Association last week declared Portland's Fi

The Natural Resources Defense Council, based in Washington, D.C., this week issu

The Navy announced yesterday Bath Iron Works and its rival, Ingalls Shipbuilding

The new 14-acre Lee Auto Mall on Main Street in Westbrook is one of Maine's larg

The new $27 million Cumberland County Jail, the state's largest, on September 8

The new $800,000 Cumberland County Pre-Release Center, located next to the new C

The new Cumberland County jail is scheduled to open Sunday, pending a final insp

The New England Economic Project, which compiles economic forecasts for the regi

The New England Seafarers Mission of Boston has for five years provided cheap an

The New England Stingers, Portland's first professional roller hockey team, made

The New England Stingers, Portland's new professional roller hockey team, yester

The newly formed Maine Citizens Review Board, comprising a half-dozen groups see

The newly revived Scarborough Taxpayers Association contends that the town is sp

The new VIP Discount Auto Parts store in Portland is 25,000 square feet in size,

The Nonantum Hotel resort in Kennebunkport, which housed the press corps and Whi

The Northern Forest Lands Council last week issued its draft recommendations for

The Northern Forest Lands Council yesterday issued a 74-page report calling for

The Northern Forest Lands Council yesterday released a report urging stronger la

The number of assaults, rapes, robberies and weapons violations committed by juv

The number of Canadian nurses licensed by the Maine Board of Nursing has increas

The number of Mainers seeking seats in the state House and Senate this year has

The number of salmon returning to Maine's rivers to find spawning grounds has de

The number of unwed parents in Maine seeking custody of children increased from

The October issue of Consumer Reports magazine lists L.L. Bean and Patagonia as

Theodore Curtis of Orono, chairman of a panel planning the commissioning of the

Theodore Littlefield, 54, four years ago finished a 14-year prison term in Maine

The Ogunquit Restroom Committee believes town voters will approve a recommended

Theo Holtwijk, 36, has been named planning director for the city of Sanford Hol

The Old Orchard Beach Town Council last night sponsored a lecture by Robert Good

The Old Orchard Beach Town Council last night voted unanimously to allow rock co

The Old Orchard Beach Town Council yesterday voted 3-2 against placing a referen

The organization Friends of Casco Bay will spend the next year studying the clam

The owners of The Daily Grind, a drive-through espresso and gourmet coffee busin

The owners of The Daily Grind, a drive-through expresso and gourmet coffee busin

The owners of Union Wharf in Portland recently dredged around the wharf, leaving

The Ozone Transport Commission, made up of twelve states from Virginia to Maine

The Ozone Transport Commission, which represents Maine and 11 other Northeastern

The parents of 2 1/2-year old Patrick McDonough of Wells, a victim of a rare for

The parents of the four teenagers who died when a trucker plowed over the Ford E

The Park and Work program, sponsored by Portland's Downtown District and designe