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

Paul Gerry of Casco, Arthur and Shirley Leach of Kennebunkport and Center Lovell

Paul Roscoe, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Maine in O

Pingree Associates has agreed to sell the 16-acre Town Line Island in Umbagog La

Portland police chief Michael Chitwood criticized the recent appointment of conv

Portland radio station WGAN-AM has fired talk-show host Al Diamon, claiming that

Profile of author and critic Elizabeth Hardwick, a New Yorker who summers in Cas

Profile of Frank Glazer of Kezar Falls, an internationally-known pianist.

Profile of Portland filmmaker Huey, who was born James J. Coleman in 1948. Huey

Profiles of The Apple Farm in Fairfield, the Maine-ly Beef Farm in Litchfield, R

Proponents of a sweeping health care reform package for Maine heard criticism fo

Proposed budget cuts could result in 25 fewer staffers at the Department of Envi

Ralph Campbell of North Waterboro, who does business as R. C. Chimney Cleaners,

Recent altercations among lobstermen in Portland Harbor have resulted in a Maine

Recent legislation passed by the Legislature exempts gravel pits up to 30 acres

Recently, a group of youngsters from Camden, N.J., spent time with a group of ch

Regional Waste Systems general manager Charles Foshay is questioning a recent st

Related articles on some of the issues Mainers will be considering when they ent

Rep. Paul Young, R-Limestone, has sponsored a bill in the Legislature which woul

Rep. Sophia Pfeiffer, D-Brunswick, has introduced a bill in the Legislature that

Republican members of the House of Representatives voted 36-5 in favor of submit

Residents of South Freeport have reported a large number of missing cats this su

Review of "Blue Corn and Chocolate," a cookbook written by Elisabeth Rozin.

Review of "Micmac Medicine: Remedies and Recollections" by Laurie Lacey.

Review of the grand re-opening show at the State Theater in Portland, which feat

Review of the musical tribute to Manny Verzosa, a Portland native who died Novem

Reviews of some recent Maine video productions, including "Banks of the Kennebec

Robert W. Palmer Jr., former long-time Waterville city administrator and now gen

Rodney P. Rodrigue took over the Belfast & Moosehead Lake Railroad Co. in 1991,

Roger Pictou of Mars Hill has taken over as head of the 450-member Micmac tribe,

Ron Bailey, producer of the PBS national weekly series "TechnoPolitics," was in

Saddleback Ski Area has agreed to sell a 3,000-acre parcel that abuts the Appala

Sandi Carver, 17, of Beals Island, can throw a softball at 60-miles-per-hour. C

Satellite TV systems made their appearance in Maine more than a decade ago, and

Scott Ramsay of the state Bureau of Parks and Recreation and Bob Flagg of the Ma

Seaver Leslie, who in the 1970s founded the anti-metric group Americans for Cust

Second in a series on school restructuring in Maine, with a focus on educational

Sena Karamazov of Orono has been told by Orono Code Enforcement Officer John Rob

Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell, in Maine for a month while Congress i

Sen. George J. Mitchell, D-Maine, has intervened with the Federal Energy Regulat

Since 1990, more than 1,000 state workers have gone through a process called "bu

Some Maine shrimp fishermen are using a finfish exclusion device called the Nord

Some students at Colby and Bates colleges who voted in last week's elections wer

Sophia Collier, founder of Portland's Good Day Market Co-op and Brooklyn-based S

Specifics on winter weather averages for December, January and February, plus a

State representative James Oliver, D-Portland, is executive director of Portland

Stewart Smith, Maine's commissioner of agriculture from 1979-85 and now professo

Subcommittees of a special commission on the electoral process have made numerou

Summary of the general fund cuts likely to be contained in any budget which is p

The 1993 spring survey of groundfish in the Gulf of Maine indicates that stocks

The $26,000 aquarium study commissioned by Portland-based Partners for Progress

The Agassiz Village Children's Camp in West Poland has operated a Hershell Spill

The Agricultural Council of Maine is seeking to restore state inspection of meat

The annual Fisherman's Forum in Rockland was the scene of fishermen criticism of

The Aroostook Water and Soil Management Board is investigating a complaint by St

The Atlantic Offshore Lobstermen's Association is proposing a system of transfer

The Baker Island Light, built in 1828 and automated in 1967, is today obscured t

The Baxter State Park Authority has voted to continue the ban on motorcycles in

The Board of Environmental Protection voted 5-1 to accept Department of Environm

The Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Resources has had its funding cut from $411,

The Bureau of Public Lands has proposed a management plan for a parcel of land i

The Cable Act of 1992 set an October 6 deadline for cable television companies a

The Canadian province of New Brusnwick has imposed an 11 percent surtax on goods

The cancer-fighting drug taxol has been discovered in the needles of the Canadia

The Center for Marine Conservation has asked the National Marine Fisheries Servi

The Christian Civic League has voiced its support for a bill recently passed by

The comic book Lobsterman, produced by a groups of individuals from Belfast, rec

The East Coast Tuna Association is hoping to change the recently established 199

The estate recovery law, which says that the state has a claim against the estat

The federal Environmental Protection Agency is taking measures to suspend Norman

The federal Intermodal Surface Transportation Act of 1991 is responsible for the

The Finance Authority of Maine has generated 10 percent of a $5 million loan pac

The Gamble family, which owns Hampden Telephone Co., has agreed to repay the com

The Garden Club Federation of Maine last year advised Mainers not to pick the se

The governor's task force on reforming the state's education funding formula has

The Knox Nickel Corporation purchased a 230-acre tract of land off Route 131 in

The Land Use Regulation Commission has approved an application by Irving Oil to

The Land Use Regulation Commission heard testimony from Bowater Inc. and a conse

The Land Use Regulation Commission voted 4-2 to approve an expansion of the Peno

The Legislature is being asked to supersede the Indian Land Claims Settlement of

The Legislature's Housing and Economic Development Committee voted unanimously t

The Legislature's Human Resources Committee is endorsing McKernan administration

The Legislature's Marine Resources Committee endorsed legislation which would se

The Legislature's Taxation Committee has endorsed changes in alternative assessm

The Legislature's Utilities Committee might be nearing a compromise on a plan wh

The Legislature will be considering the so-called Hegarty Bill, which has a prov

The Machiasport Board of Appeals on Friday voted unanimously that it has no auth

The Maine Alliance, a business lobbying group and successor to the Environmental

The Maine Alliance, a business-oriented group, advocates planning as the means t

The Maine Arts Commission has awarded $364,338 in grants to 50 recipients, with

The Maine Attorney General's office has called a halt to an out-of-state run sol

The Maine Attorney General's Office has concluded that pet groomers need to be l

The Maine Choice Coalition helped draft the recently-passed bill which reaffirms

The Maine Civil Liberties Union bestowed its annual Roger Baldwin Award to the P

The Maine Civil Liberties Union has filed a suit on behalf of four Maine familie

The Maine Department of Environmental Protection, asked prior to this year's bud

The Maine Department of Marine Resources netted more than 250 shortnose sturgeon

The Maine Department of Transportation is looking for 160 volunteers to serve on

The Maine House defeated a bill sponsored by Rep. Sean Faircloth, D-Bangor, whic

The Maine House voted 72-60 in favor of a gay-rights bill which the Senate is ex

The Maine House voted 95-49 against a Republican state budget package last week