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 Passamaquoddy Indian Tribe might have taken the first step toward a federal

The Passamaquoddy Indian tribe, with the help of Harrah's Casinos of Memphis, Te

The Passamaquoddy Tribe is claiming that on November 13, 1992, it asked the stat

The Penobscot Indian tribe yesterday filed suit in federal court against Key Ban

The Pentagon yesterday announced plans to purchase three Aegis destroyers each y

The Pentagon yesterday announced that it will locate a Department of Defense acc

The Pineland Center in Pownal, a self-contained community with 38 buildings on n

The Portland Area Comprehensive Transportation Committee is seeking an $8,000 fe

The Portland band Twisted Roots has been together for five years, and consists o

The Portland City Council last night voted 7-1 in favor of creating a Tax Increm

The Portland City Council last night voted 7-2 in favor of adopting a plan that

The Portland City Council last night voted 7-2 in favor of creating a Tax Increm

The Portland City Council last night voted 8-0 to authorize the creation of a Ta

The Portland City Council last night voted 8-1 to adopt a plan aimed at preservi

The Portland City Council on Monday refused to grant a new liquor license to the

The Portland City Council's Community Development Committee voted 3-0 to recomme

The Portland City Council's finance committee yesterday sent the proposed $55.6

The Portland City Council's public safety committee has recommended banning push

The Portland City Council's public safety committee has unanimously endorsed a p

The Portland City Council's public safety committee yesterday postponed until Ma

The Portland City Council's public safety committee yesterday voted 3-0 in suppo

The Portland City Council this week endorsed four of the ten designs for the pro

The Portland City Council today will consider adopting rules to help them evalua

The Portland City Council will tonight consider a compromise plan to limit group

The Portland City Council yesterday appointed 19 members to the Citizens' Housin

The Portland City Council yesterday approved measures allowing Portland Trails t

The Portland City Council yesterday chose Richard W. Paulson Jr., 45, the contro

The Portland City Council yesterday ordered the structures at 74 Winter Street,

The Portland City Council yesterday rejected a proposal from James Albert, owner

The Portland City Council yesterday selected two options for each of the propose

The Portland City Council yesterday unanimously passed a measure that bans autom

The Portland City Council yesterday voted 5-3 in favor of renewing the liquor li

The Portland City Council yesterday voted 7-1 to renew the nude activity, liquor

The Portland City Council yesterday voted 8-0 in favor of selling a 15-acre par

The Portland City Council yesterday voted 8-0 to approve a $1 million loan to th

The Portland City Council yesterday voted to give the city manager, top administ

The Portland City Hall Auditorium will close in February 1995 for a long-delayed

The Portland East Little League Challenger Division allows special-needs childre

The Portland Fish Exchange is the heart of the area's fishing industry, and help

The Portland Historic Preservation Committee yesterday unanimously endorsed a pr

The Portland Housing Authority has granted federal rent vouchers to Suwann Blais

The Portland Industry and Commerce Plan, drafted by a committee of Portland resi

The Portland International Hostel, located at the University of Southern Maine's

The Portland Newspapers has filed suit in Cumberland County Superior Court again

The Portland Newspapers have filed a lawsuit to force the Portland City Council

The Portland Newspapers have received the Horace Greeley Award for public servic

The Portland Newspapers have received the New England Press Association's Horace

The Portland Newspapers over the next four weeks will host a series of Reader Ro

The Portland Newspapers, WGME-TV and the Maine Council of Churches are hosting a

The Portland Observatory, built by Captain Lenuel Moody in 1807 as a signal towe

The Portland Pirates have finished up with the third-best record in the AHL (43-

The Portland Pirates hockey team this season will have Annette Woodbury, 24, of

The Portland Pirates last night scored four straight goals to defeat the Moncton

The Portland Pirates on Tuesday won the American Hockey League's Northern Divisi

The Portland Planning Board, in approving the request by the Maine Narrow Gauge

The Portland Planning Board last night agreed to a $9 million expansion of the P

The Portland Planning Board last night decided that the Maine Narrow Gauge Railr

The Portland Planning Board last night unanimously endorsed a plan to prohibit v

The Portland Planning Board last night voted 5-0 in favor of the recently propos

The Portland Planning Board on June 28 approved a plan by the Maine Narrow Gauge

The Portland Planning Board this morning voted 6-1 in favor of allowing the Main

The Portland Planning Board tonight will decide whether the Portland Internation

The Portland Planning Board tonight will hold a public meeting on the proposal b

The Portland Planning Board yesterday postponed a decision on allowing American

The Portland Planning Board yesterday unanimously approved a plan by The Crotche

The Portland Planning Board yesterday voted unanimously to approve plans by Barb

The Portland Police Department is conducting an internal investigation into the

The Portland Police Department, the federal Division of Alcohol, Tobacco and Fir

The Portland Police Department will open a community policing office at 131 Sher

The Portland Public Library, in conjunction with National Library Week, will hol

The Portland Public Library's Bookmobile, the only bookmobile remaining in the s

The Portland School Board last night voted 8-1 in favor of adopting a $55,643,91

The Portland School Board met yesterday in the city council chamber and nominate

The Portland School Committee is currently considering two different redistricti

The Portland School Committee last night voted unanimously to apply for as much

The Portland School Committee's Family Living and Human Sexuality Advisory Board

The Portland School Committee's Family Living and Human Sexuality Advisory Board

The Portland School Committee will today consider pay raises for school administ

The Portland School Committee yesterday voted 5-3 in favor of surveying students

The Portland School Committee yesterday voted 5-4 in favor of a plan that will h

The Portland School Committee yesterday voted unanimously to send Lincoln Middle

The Portland Sea Dogs lost their home opener at Hadlock Field to the Albany-Colo

The Portland Sea Dogs, who are due to arrive in Portland tomorrow afternoon, hav

The Portland Water District, Regional Waste Systems Inc. (RWS) and the city of S

The Portland Water District's board of trustees has approved an acquisition prog

The Portland Water District's new $30 million water ozonation plant in Standish

The Portland West Neighborhood Planning Council on Friday fired Sheila Wellehan,

The Portland West Neighborhood Planning Council, which receives state and federa

The Portland Yacht Club was formed in the office of Portland lawyer William Thom

The Portland Youth Conservation Corps yesterday began construction on a trail fo

The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard has set the number of workers to be laid off by mi

The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery narrowly escaped closure by the federal

The Post Office plans to move its Canal Plaza branch to the bank lobby of the fo

The Presumpscot River Watch, a volunteer group, has published a "Guide to the Pr

The prognosis for the recovery of 2-year-old Patrick McDonough of Wells remains

The proposed 1995 federal defense budget would cut a P-3 Orion Patrol Squadron f

The proposed Peabody House at 14 Orchard Street in Portland's West End, which wo

The Proprietors of Union Wharf in Portland and the Marine Spill Response Corp, w

The Public Utilities Commission is considering new rate-setting options for Cent

The Public Utilities Commission this week approved new rates for the Portland Wa