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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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Maine MILL preserving memories of Lewiston’s darkest day
The new exhibit features items related to Oct. 25 mass shooting.
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Notes for Lewiston scrawled on airplane napkins arrive at city museum
While in the air, Southwest Airlines passengers wrote messages to those affected by the 2023 mass shooting.
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Jared Golden and his wife, Izzy, have a 2nd daughter
Shirley Berry Golden was born Sunday in Lewiston.
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Two past Lewiston city halls each went up in flames
Fires in 1870 and 1890 destroyed the city’s first municipal office locations.
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Colorful, fire-thwarting monsters lurking at Lewiston City Hall?
The mayor ordered the removal of the figures in 1965. Fortunately, an amateur artist nearby intervened with a plea.
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Lewiston’s City Hall remains a marvel after 132 years
Though use of the building has changed substantially, it still contains lots of quirky and historic features.
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Victims of Oct. 25 mass shooting share $4.7 million in donations
Money raised by Lewiston-Auburn Area Response Fund will help survivors and the families of the 18 people slain in Lewiston.
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He heard the Lewiston mass shooter firing inside the bar. So he cut the power ‘to put him in the dark’
Called a hero for turning off the lights at Schemengees Bar & Grille Restaurant, Mike Roderick of China details what happened Oct. 25.
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Lewiston plans a memorial for Oct. 25 mass shooting
New committee will soon begin planning a memorial and related events.