Evening Express (Portland, Maine)

Evening Express
The last front page of the Evening Express, printed February 1, 1991.
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Guy Gannett Publishing Co.
PublisherJean Gannett Hawley
EditorLouis A. Ureneck
FoundedOctober 12, 1882 (1882-10-12), as Portland Evening Express
Ceased publicationFebruary 1, 1991 (1991-02-01)
Headquarters390 Congress Street,
Portland, Maine 04101, United States
Circulation22,700 daily in 1991[1]

The Evening Express was an American daily evening broadsheet-format newspaper published in Portland, Maine. Founded in 1882, it was owned by Guy Gannett Publishing Co. from 1925 until 1991. As of February 1991, the Monday through Saturday average circulation was 22,700.[1][2]

The Express's final issue appeared on February 1, 1991. The paper's demise left Portland as a one-newspaper town with the Portland Press Herald, a morning paper also owned by Guy Gannett. It remained so until the February 2009 launch of The Portland Daily Sun.

  1. ^ a b "Goodbye". Evening Express, page A10, February 1, 1991.
  2. ^ "Portland Dailies Plan to Merge". Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, Mass.), page C5, September 26, 1990.