Many in community mourn the popular young Hebron Academy graduate
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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‘A brilliant scholar’: Bates College professor Sue Houchins dies at 80
The respected scholar and gifted teacher had been on the faculty of the Lewiston college since 2003.
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Schemengees Bar & Grille co-owner David Lebel dies at 57
The Lebels bought Schemengees more than a quarter century ago because, they once said, they both loved pool so much.
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Three congressional candidate debates slated in Maine’s 2nd District
Jared Golden and Austin Theriault plan to face off three times in six days in early October. None of the debates are in Lewiston.
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The ‘time for accountability’ is at hand, lawyers for mass shooting victims say
Attorneys for about 90 family members and victims vow action for ‘massive failures’ by authorities who didn’t stop the killer.
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While most balloonists stayed on the ground, Jim Rodrigue opted to rise into the sky
Local balloonists felt safe taking flight despite the breeze on Friday evening.
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A mostly grounded balloon festival took off anyway, with much success
Organizers hail success of a festival that drew big, happy crowds despite weather that kept most balloons from taking flight.
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Before an awed crowd, Lewiston’s first balloon flight took place in 1865
From two miles up, the balloonist said, he was ‘a speck in mid-sky, hanging on nothing.’
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‘A Modern Miracle’ when a balloon ascended in Lewiston in 1893
LEWISTON – Balloons are nothing new in the Twin Cities. One of the earliest to float serenely overhead provided a quiet interlude to an especially rowdy Fourth of July celebration in 1893, a party so out-of-hand that residents of Auburn were said to be “tearing things to eternal smithereens” in their quest for a good […]
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Susan Collins remains mum about her 2020 vote for president
Maine’s senior senator won’t say if she voted four years ago for Trump, Biden or someone else.