Adrienne Bennett accused Eric Brakey of putting elderly and sick at risk from COVID-19 by knocking on doors in a bid to gain more 2nd District votes.
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.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine
Lewiston and Auburn schools among many that won’t reopen until at least April 27
School districts across the state announced they will remain closed through Friday, April 24.
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When area colleges sent students home, not everybody left
When coronavirus fears closed campuses, some had nowhere else to go.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine
Food bank calls on Mainers to stop hoarding
Good Shepherd president says hoarders are ‘creating a crisis’ by snatching up months’ worth of food and emptying out grocery stores.
Posted inBusiness, Lewiston-Auburn, Maine
Call centers pose ‘pretty high’ risk for coronavirus exposure, expert says
After worker complaints, TD Bank lets more of its Auburn call center workers stay home, beefs up cleaning.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
CMHC says it can’t provide COVID-19 tests to show people are healthy
Central Maine Healthcare says it faces a barrage of test requests from people seeking to show their bosses they don’t have the disease.
Posted inBusiness, Lewiston-Auburn
No easy answers for local restaurants and bars responding to coronavirus threat
Some Lewiston-Auburn establishments have closed, others shifted to takeout only and some are just limiting numbers and trying to stay clean.
Posted inMaine, Politics
Two Maine candidates for U.S. Senate staying home after possible COVID-19 exposure
A Democrat and an independent are self-quarantining rather than risk spreading virus along the campaign trail.
Posted inMaine
‘Big, big forces bearing down on’ humanities community
Maine Humanities Council director searches for light in the dark time caused by a dangerous new virus.
Posted inMaine, Politics
Maine’s campaigns turned upside down by coronavirus
Candidates emphasize online presence, avoid handshakes and struggle to get petition signatures amid virus fears.