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

The Maine Legislature this year acted to protect the state's urchin population b

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court has ruled in favor of Guy Hart, owner of Tri-St

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that a judge may suggest but not mand

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that a woman can recover damages from

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that Douglas Merrill cannot sue Centr

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that the Maine National Guard is immu

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that the town of Gray's trash control

The Maine Turnpike Interchange Advisory Committe has suggested building more int

The Maine Waste Management Agency has terminated a contract with Normandeau Asso

The Maine Waste Management Agency said the state would support re-introducing as

The Mearl Corporation of Eastport manufactures natural pearl essence, a substanc

The National Center for Educational Statistics has ranked Maine first in math am

The National Marine Fisheries Service has told the New England Fishery Managemen

The National Park Service has had to cut 16 positions from its staff at Acadia N

The Natural Resources Council of Maine claims that state environmental Commissio

The Natural Resources Council of Maine is contesting the naming of the Maine Con

The New Brunswick Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture is going ahead with pl

The New England Plant Conservation Program and 67 government agencies and privat

The new federal family-leave law will extend Maine's existing 10-week unpaid lea

The North Atlantic Salmon Fund will buy out the commercial fishing rights of the

The Northern Forest Lands Council in mid-September released a 63-page draft repo

The number of boats dragging for urchins has doubled to 450 in the past year, wh

The number of Maine employers who test their employees for drug use is up to 90,

Theodore and Dorothy Whitehouse of Wellesley, Mass., the son-in-law and daughter

The Owls Head Transportation Museum held its 15th annual auto auction on Sunday,

The Portland nightclub scene is in a state of flux. Longtime alternative bar Ra

The Preble Street Resource Center, which served 44,000 breakfasts to Portland's

The Public Utilities Commission this week started public hearings on two plans t

The Rayne's Marsh Waterfowl Project, part of a mitigation project began in 1974

There were 1,803 births to teen mothers in Maine in 1991, with Androscoggin Coun

The sentence given to Kenneth M. Allen, who pleaded guilty to burglary and misde

The Southern Maine Technical College in South Portland offers a full-scale, two-

The state is using the National Guard and prisoners to repile tires, build fire

The state of Connecticut doubled the offer, to $100 million, made by Maine and V

The state's eagle populations have increased from 29 nesting pairs in the 1970s

The St. Johns, a new variety of potato similar to the Katahdin or Allegheny and

The town of Farmington plans to set up a distribution center so area farmers can

The upcoming Lewiston referendum on that city's anti-discrimination ordinance is

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has decided against allowing the town of Freepo

The U.S. Coast Guard is overseeing a $2.9 million Environmental Protection Agenc

The U. S. Food and Drug Administration is examining the use of the antibiotic ox

The village of Paris Hill, formerly the county seat of Oxford County, is now a N

The Vinalhaven Press, which occupies a space in the former Washington School on

The Virginia opossum, the only marsupial north of Mexico, has arrived in Maine.

Thomas Tureen, attorney for the Passamaquoddy tribe, maintains that a recent Rho

Three members of IRATE (Indigenous Resistance Against Tribal Extinction) were ar

Three of Maine's premier golf courses, Martindale in Auburn, Purpoodock in Cape

Three other Maine islands have joined Frenchboro in trying to lure homesteaders

Three recent cases involving municipal officials in Maine who had run-ins with t

Through August 16, the state recorded 19 days when ozone reached unhealthy level

Tom Welch, chief deputy attorney general for antitrust in Pennsylvania, has been

To officials at the Maine Department of Environmental Protection, public ignoran

Transportation Demand Management combines carpool and vanpool programs, allowing

Twenty Maine businesses have joined to form Maine Businesses for Social Responsi

Two new publications, Fish Farming News and Working Waterfront, are aimed at exp

Under new regulations passed by the New England Fisheries Management Council, th

University of Maine mathematician Henry Pogorzelski says university administrato

University of Maine senior Neal Snow, who made news last fall when he challenged

Up to three feet of snow fell on parts of Maine during the blizzard of 1993, and

U.S. represenative Thomas Andrews has proposed setting up an independent commiss

U.S. Windpower's proposal to erect a 640-windmill, 21-megawatt wind farm along a

Utility crews from Bangor Hydro-Electric are installing power lines along a stre

Vermont has developed an integrated effort of bringing tourism officials, econom

Vernal pools, which may only contain water in the fall, have as their distinguis

Views of some of Maine's "progressive" Democratic legislators on the recent vote

Visconti's Country Lodge and Restaurant in Livermore is the latest Maine propert

While ABC-affiliate WMTW-TV in Auburn decided not to air the season premiere of

Wisconsin and Massachusetts currently lead the nation in production of cranberri

With health care costs rising and a persistent shortage of doctors, many uninsur

With longtime House Speaker Martin aide Kenneth Allen expected to plead guilty t

Commercial fishermen in the Gulf of Maine annually throw overboard millions of p, Phyllis Austin

Maine is falling behind in meeting important deadlines to implement the 1990 Cle, Phyllis Austin

One of a collection of opinions on the last 25 years in Maine. Harry Richardson, Phyllis Austin

Profile of Win Smith of Mere Point, the last farmer in that neck of the woods., Phyllis Austin

Ron Huber, head of the Coastal Waters Project, is trying to establish a national, Phyllis Austin

The 29,000-acre Scientific Forest Management Area in the northwest corner of Bax, Phyllis Austin

Preschool sports programs in Maine are increasingly popular, with roughly 5,000, Elizabeth Banwell

Profile of filmmaker Diane Lee, 54, of Orland, who last summer shot the footage, Elizabeth Banwell

A 1992 Maine Bureau of Parks & Recreation survey calculated that 140,000 of the, Edgar Allen Beem

Although juvenile arrests in Maine have remained steady at around 10,000 per yea, Edgar Allen Beem

Americans spend $51.5 billion a year on merchandise purchased through mail-order, Edgar Allen Beem

Analysis of "A Time of Change," the report on Portland's transportation system w, Edgar Allen Beem

Casco Northern Bank president Denison Gallaudet, 49, chaired the 45-member Commi, Edgar Allen Beem

Converstations with some active Maine art dealers (Tom Veilleux of Farmington; D, Edgar Allen Beem

Daniel B. Burke, president of Capital Cities/ABC, Inc., recently purchased an ex, Edgar Allen Beem

Details on last month's Education Summit in Orono, attended by 367 educators and, Edgar Allen Beem

Feature article on Harvey Prager, who received a five-year alternative sentence, Edgar Allen Beem

Kennebec Valley CoHousing has selected a 199-acre tract of pasture, orchard and, Edgar Allen Beem

Kerry was 15 when she was infected with HIV, the virus which causes AIDS. She no, Edgar Allen Beem

LD 553, a legislative bill which if passed would have implemented school choice, Edgar Allen Beem

Long article about Maine potters who produce majolica, a term applied to a wide, Edgar Allen Beem

Long article about Nancy Atwell, founder of the Center for Teaching and Learning, Edgar Allen Beem

Long article on artists Tom Lieber and David Row, both of whom summer on Maine i, Edgar Allen Beem

Long article on four of Maine's folk carvers. Profiles George Hardy of Deer Isl, Edgar Allen Beem

Long article on sex education in Maine's public schools. Indications are that m, Edgar Allen Beem

Maine's summer camps serve 85,000 young people and contribute $115 million to th, Edgar Allen Beem

Narragansett School in Gorham and Kennebunk Middle School, both of which have a, Edgar Allen Beem

One in a collection of opinions on the last 25 years in Maine. Evan Richert, co, Edgar Allen Beem

One in a collection of opinions on the last 25 years in Maine. Maine Times co-f, Edgar Allen Beem

One of a collection of opinions on the last 25 years in Maine. Philip Isaacson,, Edgar Allen Beem