The weekly Maine Times newspaper focused on feature-length articles and reportage about Maine's arts communities, from October 1968 - through 2002.
Portland Public Library's collection in the Portland Room includes the complete Maine Times on microfilm, as well as the Maine Times Index- which accompanies indexed entries in the Maine News Index.

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Submissions from 1993

An attempt at compromise between the Maine Waste Management Agency and the Asept

An employee of the Department of Public Safety who thought she was faxing an ant

An estimated 20 million board feet of unprocessed hemlock and pine will be shipp

A new book co-edited by Charles Colgan, an associate professor of public policy

An incident in Isleboro in which Maine Department of Transportation workers used

An increase of random violence in the Lincoln County town of Bremen has some res

An informal survey by Farmington landlord Licia Kuenning shows that of 55 towns

Annual Maine Times Fallguide, with a focus on home and energy.

An official with the Maine Bureau of Parks and Recreation says that enforcement

An official with the Maine Forest Service says he expects the Maine Attorney Gen

A plan proposed by the business-oriented Maine Alliance to streamline and balanc

A plan to reintroduce Atlantic salmon into the Union River using surplus aquacul

A producer with the CBS television show "Street Stories" has met with some of Ha

A proposal by the state Department of Human Services to relax the state plumbing

A report issued by state and federal prosecutors says that House Speaker John L.

A report released by the U.S. Forest Service says the White Mountain National Fo

Article about Bo Atkinson and Alda Stich of Montville and their working garden,

Article about Chautauqua performances during the first few decades of the 20th c

Article about energy guru Amory Lovins' lecture at Portland's First Parish Chuch

Article about former governor Ken Curtis, 61, and his opinions on Maine's gubern

Article about Mainers who own pets that are not ordinary domestic creatures, inc

Article on Maurice Beribeau of Brunswick, recognized by the Maine Legislature in

A series of anonymous letters charging the use of corporate revenues for persona

A sewage plant that will cost $4.1 million is about to be built in Sinclair, a s

A study co-authored by Market Decisions Inc. of South Portland and Land & Water

A symposium on sustainability, sponsored by the Natural Resources Council of Mai

A team of University of Maine researchers has developed a construction material

A time capsule containing a number of oddities will be sealed behind a tile in t

Atlantic Fresh of Caribou, owned by cousins Lance Smith and Greg Smith, is using

At least six Maine farmers are currently growing flax on some 207 acres of land,

At least two groups of young people in Ellsworth reportedly harvested psychedeli

Attorney General Michael E. Carpenter and Department of Environmental Protection

Auburn-area trash hauler Guy Hart has filed an appeal with the 1st Circuit Court

Augusta's Le Club Calumet has opened itself to charges of hypocrisy by charging

Bangor Hydro-Electric Co.'s Basin Mills project, which would involve a system of

Barbara Shissler Nosanow, director of the Portland Museum of Art since 1988, has

Bath Iron Works, along with other domestic shipbuilders, was asked to match a $1

Bath Iron Works has announced its plans for decreasing its reliance on defense-r

Baxter State Park has entered into an agreement with Georgia Pacific under which

Between 1978 and 1987 the Claude Dubois Excavating Company of Biddeford was char

Bowater Inc. and the Maine Professional River Outfitters have come to an agreeme

Bowdoin College officials proposed a package of job cuts, early retirement and i

Bowdoinham residents voted to restart a composting program for paper, food waste

Bracken, the sole surviving caribou in Maine from the ill-fated Maine Caribou Re

Brief article reporting that the federal Environmental Protection Agency announc

Brief article with a Maine Department of Transportation listing of summer transp

Brief profile of H.O.M.E. (Homeworkers Organized for More employment), located i

Brunswick police didn't bother to attend yesterdays's pro-pot rally held on the

Bryce Muir "Visual Arts" piece on Aubrey and Alice Bingham Gorman's house on Bal

Central Maine Power Co. (CMP) donated $300,000 to Whirlpool to subsidize a super

Central Maine Power Co. has halted all rebate programs for energy-efficient ligh

Champion International Corporation will protect about 55 acres of land between U

Champion International, which has plants in Bucksport and Costigan and owns 730,

Charles E. Foshay, general manager of Regional Waste Systems, believes that the

Charles MacArthur, 65, of Sangerville, grew a fidelo cucumber in a greenhouse he

Charles O'Leary, president of the Maine AFL-CIO, has resigned from a working gro

Chronological listing of events of the last 25 years as seen through the eyes of

Clinton Townsend of the Maine Chapter of the Atlantic Salmon Federation is quest

Coastal Enterprises Incorporated has opened the Ward Brooks Apartments in Wiscas

Colby College President William Cotter debated American Civil Liberties Union le

Community-supported agriculture is a system in which shareholders contribute to

Comparison of the Children's Museum of Maine in Portland and the Children's Disc

Connors-Brunswick Warehousing Inc. of Canada and Peacock Canning of Lubec are bo

C.T. Lawrence Butler, 39, of Portland, is challenging the $5 surcharge on all fi

Currently, 72 Maine school districts, or 43 percent of the total number, are und

Dancer and choreographer Jimena Lasansky owns a 3-acre woodland garden between R

Daniel O'Leary, 50, assistant director of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, has

David Flanagan, 41, will succeed Matt Hunter as president of Central Maine Power

Department of Marine Resources biologist Ted Creaser said that the recent $1.4 m

Detailed article on renowned Topsham luthier Dana Bourgeois, who has been buildi

Details about the Maine Department of Marine Resources' shad restoration program

Details and graphics on Maine's hydrologic cycle, including terminology, water u

Details of financial expenditures for lobbying efforts by business interests and

Details on the competing legislation to reform Maine's campaign finance laws, be

Details on the talk by environmental policy expert Dennis Meadows, director of t

Discussion of the "Hegarty Bill," about to be introduced in the Maine Legislatur

Discussion of two competing plans for revamping Maine's complex school-funding f

Donna Auld of Porter is not having any luck in interesting people in entering he

Dr. Richard Homola, a mycologist at the University of Maine at Orono, was surpri

Duane LaCase of the Maine Christmas Tree Association said that the low quality o

Eastport officials have banned bow hunting at the city's airport, which has hunt

Editor Pauline Boyce of Blue Hill and 20 other women have launched Network, a st

Ellis Pond in Roxbury is in danger of hosting an algae bloom due to the amount o

Endless Energy Corp. of New Gloucester has all the necessary permits in place to

Ernest A. Caliendo Jr., a member of the Board of Environmental Protection during

Farmington's Downtown Business and Professional Association is upset with two fu

Feature article about the recent propensity of police officers in Maine to shoot

Feature article about the state's newspapers, and what factors go into making de

Feature article on activist Karen Sanford, the most visible leader of the decade

Feature article on Amy Dacyczyn, author of the "Tightwad Gazette," who believes

Feature article on Eco/Eco (Economy and Ecology), an association of business and

Feature article on Kenneth Allen, top aide to House Speaker John L. Martin for

Feature article on Maine's fledgling sea urchin industry which is now worth $14.

Feature article on marijuana, the first of a three-part series on who uses drugs

Feature article on Orono's literati, including sketches of retired University of

Feature article on Phineas Sprague Jr., 44, of Cape Elizabeth's Sprague family,

Feature article on the views of eight attorneys who previously worked for enviro

Feature piece on Beatrix Jones Farrand, the first great designer of American gar

Feature story on Praxis, the Freeport crafts cooperative which may close at the

Filmmaker Spike Lee spoke at Colby College on Sunday, with much of the dialogue