Whatever Happened to the Casco Bay Weekly? Casco Bay Weekly: 7 January 1999 via Portland Public Library Digital Commons Casco Bay Weekly: 7 January 1999 via Portland Public Library Digital Commons loading... If it was happening in Portland, the Casco Bay Weekly would cover it. According to Wikipedia, in 1990, Dodge Morgan, who also owned the Maine Times newspaper, purchased Casco Bay Weekly from Mogul Media Inc. Back then, the Casco Bay Weekly had a circulation of about 20,000, all in the Greater Portland area. The original editors said in their first issue in 1990:"The idea for Casco Bay Weekly evolved from our attachment to Portland.