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

Film producer/director Polly Bennell of Portland is teaming up with self-defense

Five Machias residents charged with physically and verbally assaulting an Africa

Fleet Bank currently has the lowest loan-to-asset ratio of Maine's four largest

Former Maine Attorney General James Tierney has become one of the country's busi

Former Maine Senate President Charles Pray is apparently on at lest one list for

Former Middle East hostage Frank Reed, 60, a University of Maine graduate who su

Former state planning director Richard Silkman, now a private consultant for a c

Former state Senator Peter Mills, 82, of Farmington, is probably best known for

Four grants totalling $190,000 have been awarded to the New England Plant Conser

Freeport's homework hotline was the subject of a joke on MTV comedian John Stewa

George Bates of the Maine State Housing Authority says that the state's fuel ass

Georgia-Pacific, facing opposition from the Grand Lake Stream Guide's Associatio

Gov. McKernan's plan to shift about $125 million in retirement contributions ove

Gov. McKernan's proposals to expand the ASPIRE program (Additional Support for P

Gov. McKernan vetoed a bill that would impose fines on individuals not wearing s

Haitian president-in-exile Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the 1993 recipient of the Osc

Hans Bucher was a corporate chef and food service manager before he and wife She

Harley Lee, owner of Endless Energy of New Gloucester, is encountering oppositio

Innovative pro-active policing efforts called Community-Oriented Policing and Pr

In the battle between lake residents seeking peace and quiet and owners of motor

In the wake of revelations that Portland and South Portland police departments r

In the wake of University of Maine at Orono hockey coach Sean Walsh's five week-

James River of Richmond, Va., has announced plans to sell more than 300,000 acre

Joan Steeves recently saw the Cumberland house she built for $800,000 in 1986 se

Josephine M. LaPlante, professor of policy at the Muskie Institute of Public Aff

"Just the Facts" graph showing bachelor's degrees by school and by subject for a

"Just the Facts" table on alcohol use by Maine school children grades 6-12.

Kay Hawkins, code enforcement officer for the town of Hartford, says that town s

Kennebec County Probate Judge James Mitchell has ended the one-year state guardi

Kennebec Valley Co-Housing received a $144,000 grant from the Federal Home Loan

Kurtis Clements of Richmond has been stopped by police 13 times while driving, y

Lacking broad-based budget goals, negotiations in the Legislature on how to brid

Last week's vote by the Bangor City Council against a local businessman's propos

Last winter's cold temperatures have left the ocean around one degree cooler tha

Last year seven million Americans participated in the growing alternative touris

Legislation allowing environmental license plates featuring an emblem other than

Leslie Otten, president and owner of Sunday River, has proposed a major expansio

Letters to the editor, both pro and con, on the November 9, 1993, Maine Times st

Letter to the editor from Eugene A. Guilford Jr., president of the Maine Oil Dea

Letter to the editor from Jean Hay of Stillwater, Democratic candidate for the 2

Letter to the editor from Leon A. Gorman of Freeport, an executive with L.L. Bea

Lewiston Mayor James Howaniec is the first gubernatorial candidate to produce a

List of the projects in Maine which will benefit from $20 million in federal hig

L. L. Bean Inc. of Freeport and Joseph's of Portland have both introduced new li

Lobbyists fees for work at the 1992 Maine Legislative session were $1.46 million

Long article about a recent study by independent Boston-based research company T

Long article about John Rowe, former president of Central Maine Power Company an

Long article about Maine's amphibian population.

Long article about Mike and Amy Knowlton, owners of a gas station and convenienc

Long article about Susan Schweppe of Falmouth, a member of the Maine Peace Missi

Long article discussing the difficulties the Maine Economic Growth Council had i

Long article on Angus King, 49, former host of MaineWatch and other public affai

Long article on an unprecedented management strategy initiated to deal with the

Long article on Esther Lacognata, a former Maine Department of Agriculture offic

Long article on the counterculture group members who hang out at Portland's Gree

Long article on the natural attributes of the sea urchin, its geographical range

Long article on the upcoming town meeting in Carrabassett Valley during which re

Long article on various philanthropic foundations in Maine, including the Libra

Long articles analyzing some of the reasons behind Maine's $1 billion state budg

Long opinion piece on sustainable development by Eric Palola, a resource economi

Machiasport residents unhappy with the 480-foot United States Cellular tower on

Maine Attorney General Michael Carpenter said that no guard or official will fac

Maine hunters are facing a range of new state and local restrictions, including

Maine is currently one of three states that does not regulate the taking of rept

Maine is home to three large military facilities (Loring Air Force Base, Brunswi

Maine now has 19 Wal-Mart stores either operating or in the development stage.

Maine Public Advocate Stephen Ward has sided with Central Maine Power Co. (CMP)

Maine's 20-year-old Site Location of Development Law requires developers to redu

Maine's Advisory Committee on Radioactive Waste last week voted against a federa

Maine's Animal Welfare Board, charged with enforcing animal cruelty laws, receiv

Maine's apple growers are experiencing problems with quality. This comes after

Maine's commercial tuna fishermen are hoping that the National Marine Fisheries

Maine Senator Dale McCormick, D-Monmouth, says she supports President Clinton's

Maine's excursion boats, which have typically offered tourists short trips aroun

MaineShare, the state's alternative charitable payroll-deduction program, raised

Maine's health-food store community is concerned about the implications of the f

Maine's Land Use Regulation Commission issued a water quality license for Bowate

Maine's major workers' compensation insurance carriers have proposed a 5.5 perce

Maine's maximum-security prison in Warren will apparently survive the latest rou

Maine's share of federal transportation money under the Intermodal Surface Trans

Maine Vocals leader Donald Christen and nine others were arrested on drug charge

Manna Ministries, a Bangor soup kitchen, is searching for a new location after h

Many Maine potato growers and packers are unhappy with the state's potato inspec

Many of Maine's farmers are turning to value-added processing to generate needed

Many of Maine's small-dam owners say they are being unfairly blamed for increase

Margery Niblock, 55, of Portland, manufactures jewelry out of beach glass. The a

Marine Resources Commissioner Bill Brennan has forwarded to the Legislature's Ma

Marshall Cohen of the Aseptic Packaging Council says that since asceptic juice b

Members of the Gamble family, owners of Hampden Telephone Company, have agreed t

Members of the Maine Hospice Council met last week to discuss the way hospices w

Members of the Woodlands country club in Falmouth have purchased the facility fo

Mid-Maine Waste Action Corp.'s trash-to-energy incinerator in Auburn has a $3 mi

Most special interest groups and legislators on departmental oversight committee

Northern Utilities and the Public Utilities Commission are exploring ways the ga

Oakhurst Dairy's new collapsible milk containers, which reduce waste volume by 7

Officials at the Maine Office of Tourism claim that most tourists who visit the

Officials from five New England states recently visited Norway to study a progra

Officials in Wells are considering a beach nourishment plan that would allow the

Pamela R. Miller of Portland, who works as an image consultant, hopes to be the

Paul and Maria Slater of Topsham are the latest Mainers to run a contest to atte