Lewis Penick Clinton, who fled his rural homeland as a teen, learned 12 languages and wowed his peers at the Lewiston college.
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
Money swiped from watershed protection agency
The thief made off with $29,000 and the FBI has been informed.
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Posted inLewiston-Auburn, News
New president welcomes new class at Bates College
Garry Jenkins, the new president of Bates college, delivers a speech during the annual convocation.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Nation / World, Politics
President Biden ignores Auburn lawmaker’s personal plea to free a prisoner
State Sen. Eric Brakey hopes Biden will pardon a man the lawmaker called ‘the Nelson Mandela of Bitcoin.’
Posted inAndroscoggin County, Franklin, Oxford Hills
Seth Carey seeks access to secret grand jury testimony
Former DA contender claims testimony may prove his allegation he was targeted for a ‘politically-motivated prosecution’
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Half the political races in Auburn this fall are uncontested
AUBURN — Auburn School Committee candidates won’t have to sweat this year’s election. Barring any last-minute, write-in challengers, contenders for each school committee seat are guaranteed to win since they don’t have any opposition. In one of the seven seats on the panel, in Ward 4, not a single candidate filed paperwork for the Nov. […]
Posted inAndroscoggin County, Franklin, Lewiston-Auburn, Oxford Hills
Seth Carey claims ‘malicious prosecution,’ seeks sanctions for police, prosecutor
After a five-year battle to clear his name, one-time district attorney candidate Seth Carey of Rumford filed suit in Oxford County this week accusing the Maine State Police of malicious prosecution. Carey said in legal papers that police filed “completely false criminal charges” against him that led to the loss of his law license and […]
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The truth behind a legendary Mainer
They say Conrad Heyer crossed the Delaware with Washington, fought at Bunker Hill and is the earliest-born person to appear in a photograph, but . . .
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine
Jared Golden criticized for vehemence of his opposition to student debt relief
Golden issued a controversial statement on the issue Friday that drew sharp retorts from those who favor student loan forgiveness.
Posted inAndroscoggin County, Lewiston-Auburn
Lewiston man’s Civil War letters ‘a witness to some of our nation’s most important moments of history’
George Nye may be the only soldier who rose from private to general.