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 state Legislature is currently considering a number of bills that would sign

The state Legislature is moving toward adopting a tax credit plan that will prov

The state Legislature last night approved an education-funding plan that gives d

The state Legislature last year decided to allow Maine banks to sell annuities,

The state Legislature seems ready to approve legislation that will allow compani

The state Legislature two years ago gave counties the job of centralizing arrest

The state Legislature yesterday approved a $15 million supplemental budget that

The state Legislature yesterday postponed until Tuesday a scheduled vote on a pr

The state liquor commission yesterday denied an attempt by the Maine Grocers Ass

The state Office of Data, Research and Vital Statistics this month released figu

The State of Maine Cheese Co of Rockland has begun selling unhomogenized milk i

The state paid Portland $450,000 for the right to build part of the new Portland

The State Planning Office projects an net out-migration of people from Maine in

The State Planning Office this week reported a rise of about five cents a gallon

The state plans to close Pineland in 1996, and the center's population is alread

The state Public Utilities Commission has rejected a proposal by Nynex to reduce

The state Public Utilities Commission's advocacy staff has issued a report recom

The state Public Utilities Commission yesterday approved an agreement between Ce

The state recently purchased 545 Stinger road spike units for use by state and l

The state registered 16 homicides in 1993, six in which the victims were childre

The state's Animal Welfare Advisory Committee, an arm of the state agriculture d

The state's eight district attorneys have written a letter to Maine Supreme Judi

The state's four gubernatorial candidates yesterday spoke on Maine's economic fu

The state's insistence that Verne J Blake of Limington take a DNA test to deter

The state's judges, who this year were scheduled to receive their first pay rais

The state's new automobile emissions testing program, CarTest, debuted last mont

The state Task Force to Study the Safe Mobility of Maine's Aging Population, cre

The state Task Force to Study the Safe Mobility of Maine's Aging Population, whi

The state Taxation Bureau has already mailed out some 155,000 tax refunds, more

The State Theatre yesterday sold out the remaining tickets for the August 10 Bob

The state will contribute around $500,000 to a new passenger train station in Po

The state yesterday amended its lawsuit against Clifford Shattuck, the Lincolnvi

The state yesterday sponsored a reception at a convention center in Portland wit

The St Dominic hockey team last night outscored Waterville 3-0 to gain its firs

The Summer of Safety, a prelude to President Clinton's national service program,

The Sunday River Ski Resort in Bethel is among the hundred nationwide that have

The Sunday River Ski Resort is considering plans to run its passenger train as a

The Sunday River Ski Resort's ski train service ended for the season on April 11

The Survey Research Center of the University of Southern Maine's Edmund S. Muski

The team fielded by Scarborough High School placed first among 19 teams at last

The television show "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?" will host live, unt

The The U.S. Department of Transportation and the U.S. Attorney's Office in Por

The three candidates for an at-large seat on the Portland City Council all belie

The three cities and seven towns served by the Portland Water District have agre

The Time and Tide Resource Conservation and Development program is one of five R

The tower clock at Deering High School in Portland was once run by an antique Re

The town of Alna and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts have reached a compromise in

The town of Bridgton and officials of School Administrative District 61 are at o

The town of Cape Elizabeth has completed negotiations to purchase the estate of

The town of Cumberland will ask a Superior Court judge for the authority to plac

The town of Cumberland yesterday asked the Maine Supreme Judicial Court to overt

The town of Fort Fairfield was littered with huge chunks of ice as a result of f

The town of Freeport has received a $2 million federal Economic Development Admi

The town of Gray is seeking solutions to the traffic congestion that occurs in t

The town of Kennebunk spent $700,000 to close the 15-acre Sea Road municipal dum

The town of Madison has for years been a municipal utility, and recently won the

The town of North Berwick and Pratt & Whitney have agreed that the company shoul

The town of Sanford has settled a lawsuit with Roland Jackson, 56, of Sanford, a

The town of Sanford is struggle to comply with a ruling by U.S. District Court J

The town of Sanford will once again have full responsibility for the Anderson Le

The town of Windham has settled with Joseph Green, 28, of Windham, for $75,000.

The town of Windham recently honored C Arthur MacDonald, who was with the Windh

The towns of Freeport, New Gloucester, Phippsburg, Pownal, North Yarmouth and Du

The trustees of the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences yesterday postponed a

The trustees of the University of New England in Biddeford yesterday voted to fo

The union representing guards at the Cumberland County Jail is concerned that th

The United States during World War II built 2,850 Liberty ships to carry troops

The United Way of Greater Portland yesterday kicked off its 1994 campaign with a

The University of Maine at Augusta this fall will offer 73,000 cable television

The University of Maine at Orono extends accreditation and administrative suppor

The University of Maine at Orono has joined a New England Board of Higher Educat

The University of Maine at Orono is disputing a recent Chronicle of Higher Educa

The University of Maine at Orono on August 17 discovered another violation of Na

The University of Maine at Orono opened the football season with six players rul

The University of Maine at Orono received $24.6 million in outside funding in fi

The University of Maine at Orono's wood science and technology program has begun

The University of Maine at Orono yesterday barred nine athletes from participati

The University of Maine at Orono yesterday named three finalists for the athleti

The University of Maine at Orono yesterday named Walter H. Abbott, 57, an associ

The University of Maine at Orono yesterday placed Athletic Director Mike Ploszek

The University of Maine Black Bear hockey team suffered at 5-2 loss at the hands

The University of Maine Sports Hall of Fame on September 30 will induct six athl

The University of Maine System board of trustees will today consider awarding te

The University of Southern Maine has instituted an interactive voice response sy

The University of Southern Maine has withdrawn recognition from the local chapte

The University of Southern Maine's fund-raising drive for the Osher Map Library

The University of Southern Maine won 97 grants totaling more than $10 million du

The University of Southern Maine yesterday dedicated the new Osher Map Library a

The U.S. Agency for International Development has awarded Central Maine Power Co

The US Army has approved the awarding of the Congressional Medal of Honor to S

The U.S. Army's Breast Cancer Initiative has awarded the Jackson Laboratory a $1

The U.S. Bankruptcy Court has given Oxford Homes permission to temporarily resum

The U.S. Census Bureau reports that nearly one in three Maine businesses are ope

The U.S. Coast Guard has replaced the old, liquid mercury lens of the Cape Eliza

The U.S. Coast Guard wants cruise ships and the ports where they dock to use X-r

The U.S. Congress this week passed a $30 billion crime bill, under which Maine c

The U.S. Court of Appeals last month ruled that Maine's milk tax is unconstituti

The U.S. Court of Appeals on August 24 ruled that Maine's dairy stabilization fu

The U.S. Customs Service has agreed to increase the tariff on imported down comf

The U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration has approv