The ''Casco Bay Weekly'' was a free alternative weekly newspaper published in

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, from May 26, 1988, to 2004. It was similar to other alternative newspapers such as ''

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'' and ''The Phoenix''. In 1990, Dodge Morgan, who also owned the ''Maine Times'' newspaper, purchased ''Casco Bay Weekly'' from Mogul Media Inc. At the time, ''CBW'' had a circulation of approximately 20,000 entirely in the Greater Portland area. The paper struggled with declining ad revenues after the establishment of another alternative newspaper, the Portland Phoenix, in 1999. The paper's final editor, Chris Busby, founded ''The Bollard'' in 2005. The paper's archives are held at the

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and are available online at the library's website.

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