You can contact us at Press Herald Online . To subscribe to the Portland Press Herald. To advertise on this site. As many as 690,000 people are left without electricity after a January ice storm.
Original designs call for airplane landing strips to be built alongside the lanes.
Lafayette National Park, later to become Acadia National Park, is established on Mount Desert Island. Three of Portland's biggest banks go under. The Great Blizzard of '52, one of the worst snowstorms in the history, drops 23 inches of snow in 36 hours. Hundreds abandon cars on the Maine Turnpike and five Mainers die. The loss of the beloved station sparks the birth of Greater Portland Landmarks and the historic preservation movement in Maine.