Maine health care students help their hard-pressed future colleagues, Bates College, businesses and others also offer assistance.
Steve Collins
Columnist
Steve Collins became an opinion columnist for the Maine Trust for Local News in April of 2025. A journalist since 1987, Steve has worked for daily newspapers in New York, Connecticut and Maine and served as the State House reporter for the Sun Journal since 2016. The Maine Press Association named him Maine's Journalist of the Year in 2022. Among his other awards are the Society of Professional Journalists’ 2016 Ethics in Journalism Award, the I.F. Stone Whistle-Blower Award in 2015 and the Bob Wallack Community Journalism Award from the New England Newspaper & Press Association. Steve is a founder and board president of Youth Journalism International, a charity that teaches students around the globe about news writing, media literacy and issues of the day. His wife, Jackie Majerus, serves as its executive director. Born in Massachusetts, he grew up in a military family that took him to Norway, Ohio and Virginia, where he earned a degree in history from the University of Virginia. He and Jackie live in Auburn. They have two adult children, two collies and not enough time.
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‘One of Maine’s many cranks,’ Lewiston’s Elias Gove once sought $1 billion from Abraham Lincoln
Gove, who died in 1894, thought of himself as a prophet and a billionaire, but the world saw him differently.
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Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine, Politics
Maine congressional race turns hot after Trump scorches an Eric Brakey ally
Adrienne Bennett and Dale Crafts, challenging Brakey in Maine congressional primary, tie him to a Republican congressman Trump said should be thrown out of the GOP.
Posted inMaine Crime
Police log
Arrests Lewiston • Jamie Mason, 43, of Lewiston, on a charge of domestic violence assault with priors, 12:30 a.m. Thursday at 190 Ash St.
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Eric Brakey denounces $2.2 trillion relief bill as a ‘rotten deal for the American people’
Eric Brakey is alone among the three Republicans in Maine’s 2nd District congressional primary in rejecting the compromise bill that won unanimous backing in the U.S. Senate.
Posted inBusiness, Lewiston-Auburn
Person diagnosed with COVID-19 had access to TD Bank call center in Auburn
A non-employee who had done work at the call center received a presumptive positive test for the virus last week, the company said.
Posted inBusiness, Lewiston-Auburn, Maine, News, River Valley
Some hospitals screening everyone for COVID-19 symptoms
Central Maine Healthcare checking employees, patients and visitors for symptoms.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
How Lewiston’s biggest hospital responded to the growing COVID-19 threat
Internal memos from Central Maine Healthcare show its rapidly escalating preparation to deal with deadly new virus this month.
Posted inBusiness, Lewiston-Auburn, Maine
TD Bank’s Auburn call center sends 38 workers home after some got sick
Five employees’ symptoms raised concerns about coronavirus exposure.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Masks and other protective gear running short at Central Maine Medical Center
Like many of its counterparts, Central Maine Medical Center is ‘conserving our resources’ to ensure it has masks, gloves and more for healthcare workers dealing the coronavirus.