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 Questarium in Windham's Sebago Plaza, with its sound lab, miniature planetar

The Reader Roundtables, sponsored by the Portland Newspapers, the Central Maine

There are approximately 4,000 miles of unpaved roads in the state, and they are

There are at least three books in the works on the bitter 1987-88 paperworkers s

There are currently three off-track betting facilities in Maine, one each in Lew

The recent announcement by Fleet Financial Group that it plans to cut 5,500 of i

The recent destruction of the ell on Freeport's historic Mitchell House has ener

The recent turmoil on Wall Street has created problems in the municipal bond mar

There have been at least 15 threatening phone calls to Jewish institutions in so

There have been seven thefts of old flower urns from cemeteries in southern Main

The relationship between the city of Bath and the town of Cascais, Portugal, beg

The Republican State Convention, to be held this weekend, is expected to provide

Theresa Desfosses, head of State Manufactured Homes of Scarborough, the investme

The restructuring of Maine's schools has become so popular that numerous organiz

The Rev. Frank Toste, 69, yesterday presided over the Blue Knights annual motorc

The Rev. Margaret Lawson on Sundays conducts two to three hours of worship at th

There were 828 housing permits taken out in southern Maine in the first six mont

There were around 80 milk processors in Portland in 1921, but today there are ju

The Rock Bottom Remainders, a rock group consisting of authors Stephen King, Amy

The rubble-filled lot at Congress Street and Washington Avenue, the site of the

The Saco City Council yesterday agreed to pay up to six months rent to the devel

The Salvation Army will hold its 109th annual camp meeting week at "The Grove,"

The Scarborough Board of Education next month will survey more than 1,000 middle

The Scarborough Board of Education yesterday voted to discuss with state officia

The Scarborough boys and the South Portland girls emerged as victors in last nig

The Scarborough school district is one of 35 districts nationwide that will part

The Scarborough Taxpayers Association, inactive for the last 14 years, this week

The Scarborough Town Council last night voted in favor of applying for a low-int

The Scarborough Town Council voted unanimously yesterday in favor of using sand

The Scarborough Town Council will tonight consider whether the 230,000 cubic yar

The Scarborough Town Council yesterday unanimously approved an updated comprehen

The Scarborough Town Council yesterday voted to name the new turnpike connector

The School of American Dance, which has been training young dancers for more tha

The schooner Bowdoin, designed by William Hand and built by Hodgdon Brothers Shi

"The Science of Maine Life," piece about a Pennsylvania hunter, who, last sprin

"The Science of Maine Life" piece about Patrick Norton, a legislative analyst, a

The Science of Maine Life"piece explaining what makes maple sap run.

"The Science of Maine Life," piece on striders or "Jesus bugs," as they are call

"The Science of Maine Life" piece on Taningia danae, a rare, deep-sea squid that

"The Science of Maine Life" piece on the creatures who live the winter beneath f

"The Science of Marine Life" piece on the Atlantic salmon, which undergoes physi

The Scotia Prince ferry, which carries up to 170,000 passengers each year from P

The Seacoast Shipyard Association, the independent lobbying arm of the Portsmout

The second installment of the four-part Greater Portland Landmarks series "2020

The second of five articles running this week profiling the Democratic gubernato

The September closure of Loring Air Force Base in Limestone has many in town wor

The Shipyard Employees Association, an employee group at the Portsmouth Naval Sh

The Sierra Club has notified the state and federal governments it plans to file

The Sierra Club is concerned that Sappi Ltd. of South Africa will sell off some

The Silver Seas expedition, which left Maine last October to recover sunken trea

The sixth annual Maine State Horticultural Show, which is expected to draw betwe

The South Portland Board of Appeals yesterday voted not to allow Gotta Dance Inc

The South Portland Board of Appeals yesterday voted unanimously not to allow Got

The South Portland Board of Education has given 14 administrators raises for 199

The South Portland Board of Education last night voted to transfer control of th

The South Portland City Council last night stopped short of endorsing a tax brea

The South Portland City Council last night voted 4-3 against approving a 1994-95

The South Portland City Council last night voted 4-3 to approve a proposal under

The South Portland City Council last night voted 5-2 in favor of issuing a pushc

The South Portland City Council will vote Monday on a proposed $37.8 million bud

The South Portland City Council yesterday gave preliminary approval to a plan to

The South Portland City Council yesterday voted 5-2 in favor of sending to voter

The South Portland City Council yesterday voted to ask the state to approve the

The South Portland Planning Department and the mayor's Knightville-Mill Creek Ad

The South Portland Police Department has not yet replaced Chief Robert M. Schwar

The Southwestern Maine Track Conference was established in 1924 with four member

The special legislative committee investigating CarTest, the state's new automob

The Spring Point Museum in South Portland on Saturday opened a special exhibit c

The S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien, a Liberty ship built in South Portland in 1943, sets

The S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien, built by the New England Shipbuilding Corp. in South

The SS Jeremiah O'Brien, currently visiting Portland before returning to its hom

The SS Jeremiah O'Brien, launched at the New England Shipbuilding Corp. in South

The staff of the Finance Authority of Maine will recommend that Central Maine Po

The state and Nautica Enterprises Inc. of New York yesterday announced an agreem

The state Attorney General's Office has agreed to drop manslaughter charges agai

The state Attorney General's Office has concluded that Steven Gonthier of North

The state Attorney General's Office has filed suit in Kennebec County Superior C

The state Board of Environmental Protection this week voted unanimously to fine

The state Board of Environmental Protection will meet Wednesday to consider chan

The state Board of Environmental Protection yesterday overturned licenses held b

The state Board of Pesticides is expected to decide by October 23 whether to reg

The state budget crisis has left the Maine court system without the means of pay

The state Bureau of Health yesterday issued an advisory warning pregnant women,

The state Bureau of Medical Services is responsible for recovering money spent b

The state Bureau of Motor Vehicles last year issued 6,344 new seven-digit vanity

The state Bureau of Taxation last November installed a new computer system, and

The state Certificate of Needs Advisory Committee yesterday refused a request by

The state Department of Human Services is asking York County Superior Court to r

The state Department of Mental Health yesterday filed an appeal with the Maine S

The state Department of Mental Health yesterday filed a series of objections to

The state Emergency Medical Services agency has begun distributing bright orange

The state has collected more than $13 million in court-ordered child support pay

The state has reached a negotiated consent agreement with State Farm Insurance u

The state has tentatively agreed to a five-year lease on a state liquor store to

The state, in an attempt to get the federal government to contribute an extra $2

The state is expected to sign an option with Bangor Investment Co February 1 to

The state Land Use Regulation Commission has conducted studies that show that Ma

The state Land Use Regulation Commission yesterday approved the erection of 11 m

The state Legislature could vote as early as today on a bill that would create a

The state Legislature in 1992 passed a law that requires individuals convicted o