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 U.S. Department of Commerce this week approved a management plan designed to

The U.S. Department of Defense has not approved a $150,000 appropriation for the

The US Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration recently asked

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will conduct an inves

The U.S. Department of Transportation has agreed to subsidize flights between Au

The U.S. District Court in Portland yesterday officially opened for a two-year s

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's regional office in Boston is recommen

The U.S. House of Representative yesterday voted 216-214 to approve a measure th

The U.S. Justice Department yesterday announced that the Maine State Police and

The U.S. Navy has again asked Bath Iron Works and competitor Ingalls Shipbuildin

The U.S. Navy has promised to give the destroyer Charles F. Adams, launched by B

The U.S. Navy has rejected a request from the congressional delegations of Maine

The U.S. Navy has reversed an earlier decision to close its Winter Harbor commun

The U.S. Navy is considering canceling a major submarine-refuleing project at th

The U.S. Navy on Friday nominated Bath Iron Works for a Department of Defense Va

The U.S. Navy on Wednesday announced that instead of awarding the contracts for

The U.S. Navy's repeated delay in awarding three new Aegis destroyer contracts i

The U.S. Navy today will commission the USS John S. McCain, an $800 million, 505

The U.S. Navy tomorrow will commission the USS John S. McCain, the fourth Arleig

The U.S. Navy yesterday announced that Bath Iron Works and Ingalls Shipbuilding

The US Navy yesterday announced that between 700 and 900 workers at the Portsm

The U.S. Navy yesterday christened the nation's 16th Trident submarine, the U.S.

The U.S. Postal Service has compiled a list of 28 rural post offices in the stat

The U.S. Postal Service last week signed a 10-year lease with developers Arthur

The U.S. Senate held hearings yesterday on Gulf War Syndrome, and one senator ac

The U.S. Senate this week will consider legislation that would ban the use of pe

The U.S. Small Business Administration has filed suit in U.S. District Court in

The U.S. Small Business Administration yesterday announced a new program that wi

The USS Tirante, a submarine launched from the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard on Augu

The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday turned away without comment an appeal by Donald

The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday upheld a Maine state law that bars individuals

The voter turnout for the June 14 primary election has been tabulated at 20.3 pe

The Wall family of Yarmouth graduates today from the University of Southern Main

The Washburn & Doughty shipyard was started in 1977 when Bruce Doughty, Carl Pia

The Waynflete Summer Dramatic Institute is a six-week drama workshop founded las

The weak Canadian dollar and a recession in that country are being blamed for th

The Westbrook City Council has ratified a resignation settlement with Peter J. B

The Westbrook City Council last night voted 6-2 to allow voters in November to d

The Westbrook Committee for Voter Information yesterday announced its opposition

The Westbrook girls and the Cheverus boys won the Class A state track championsh

The Westbrook Police Department recently published a 13-chapter, 14-appendix pro

The Westbrook Police Department's two captains will each serve as chief for half

The Westbrook Rent Justification Board was formed in 1990 after residents of The

The Westbrook School Committee yesterday said that the radio in the school syste

The Westbrook School Committee yesterday voted 5-1 in favor of naming the junior

The Westbrook School Department has arranged for Sentry Answering Service of Mai

The Westbrook School Department is hiring a private investigator to determine wh

The Wild Blueberry Association of North America last month approved a new promot

The Windham Town Council, needing to cut energy costs by 20 percent, has decided

The Windham Town Council yesterday endorsed a plan to create a Tax Increment Fin

The Windham Wastewater Management Planning Committee has recommended spending $5

The winter's 10th snowstorm dumped around 6 inches of snow on the ground in Port

The Women's Campaign Fund, a national group promoting political candidacies by p

The Yarmouth High School hockey team last night beat Brewer 4-0 in the Class B c

The Yarmouth School Committee last week reversed an earlier decision and voted 4

The Yarmouth Ski Club started work over the weekend clearing trails in Pratt's B

The Yarmouth Town Council yesterday agreed to a settlement with Central Maine Po

The YWCA of Portland has awarded five area businesswomen with its Tribute to Wom

The YWCA on Spring Street in Portland recently had an electrolytic ionization sy

Thieves on Saturday night broke into the Roadway Express terminal in Westbrook a

Third in a four-part series on managing medicine. L.L. Bean of Freeport and Col

Third in a four-part series on the race to succeed U.S. Senate Majority Leader G

Third in a four-part series profiling the state's gubernatorial candidates. Demo

Third in a four-week series on Maine's forests and forest products. Some Maine

Third in a series of eight articles on the Republican gubernatorial candidates.

Third in a series on "Reader Roundtables: The Voter's Forum." This week's insta

Third in a six-part series on the fishing industry entitled "Empty Nets, Sinking

Third installment of a series on education; part of the Reader Roundtable progra

Third of five articles running this week on the Democratic gubernatorial candida

Thirteen petitioners earlier this month filed a petition with the Maine Public U

Thirty Maine teachers this week attended a five-day seminar at Bates College in

Thirty-three individuals have applied for the position of chief of police in Sou

Thirty to 40 fishermen, fish processors, pier operators and industry representat

This weekend, Carol and John Farrell of Freeport, are holding a reunion of 11 fa

This week, Portland police are taking the time to stop commuters on outer Washin

This week's sinking of the passenger ferry the MS Estonia in the Baltic Sea is r

Thomas Allen, a candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor, yesterday

Thomas Doe, 46, of Winterport, is the lead engineer on the $165 million Portland

Thomas E. Audet, 44, a Portland lawyer, yesterday pleaded guilty in Cumberland C

Thomas F. Valleau, Portland's director of transportation and waterfront, has ask

Thomas J. Kane yesterday defeated Saco Mayor Mark D. Johnston and Rep. Peggy Pen

Thomas K. Edwards, 54, superintendent of Portland schools, yesterday announced t

Thomas Keller, a science education consultant for the state Department of Educat

Thomas Napier, 21, of Lyman, disappeared on October 29, 1993, having been last s

Thomas Stratis, the owner of Boone's Restaurant, has been having cars parked in

Thomas Travis, 30, of Portland, died early yesterday morning after losing contro

Thousands of people lined Congress Street between Congress Square and Monument S

Thousands of volunteers will participate in Sunday's sixth annual Walk for Multi

Three doctors at the Penobscot Bay Women's Health Center, the only physicians in

Three Dollar Dewey's, one of the best known bars in New England, plans to move f

Three former Cornish-area men--Paul Watson, 19, Seth Richardson, 21, and Solomon

Three legislative committees hope to place an eight-item bond package totaling $

Three migrant workers at DeCoster Egg Farms in Turner have filed suit in Androsc

Three new coffee shops have opened in downtown Portland in the last three months

Three of a four member Russian delegation from Severodvinsk, the site of the wor

Three of Maine's four gubernatorial candidates would suspend the state's new aut

Three people were hospitalized and four others suffered minor injuries yesterday

Three pit bulls attacked and critically injured another dog last week in Windham

Three University of Maine at Orono athletes are scheduled to be arraigned this m

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