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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.

Lewiston-Auburn, Maine, Nation / World, Politics

Feds found classified papers among Edmund Muskie’s archives at Bates College

by Steve Collins June 9, 2023June 10, 2023

The former Secretary of State and U.S. senator from Maine was one of many high-ranking officials who mistakenly held on to secret paperwork.

Maine

Did a young Maine farmer with ‘a good set of teeth’ really offer a ‘Chance for a Spinster’ to marry him?

by Steve Collins June 4, 2023June 4, 2023

For about as long as the clipping has been shared on social media, people have been trying to figure out if it’s true.

Lewiston-Auburn, Schools & Education

Edward Little grads ‘off on our own path’ after soggy ceremony

by Steve Collins June 3, 2023June 3, 2023

To smiles and cheers, diplomas distributed to more than 230 seniors.

Lewiston-Auburn

Auburn woman with ALS declares in obit she opted to end her life

by Steve Collins May 31, 2023June 1, 2023

Kathryn Begg’s obituary says she died Saturday, ‘which was the date and time of her own choosing.’

Lewiston-Auburn, Maine

Legislators urged to support a $50 million bond to bolster rail in Maine

by Steve Collins May 30, 2023May 31, 2023

Backers include Lewiston, Auburn train fans who want passenger service to the Twin Cities.

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What exactly is the Bates College seal?

by Steve Collins May 28, 2023May 26, 2023

First off, a seal is a design, usually round, that can be made on a die so that it can be used to emboss paper or imprint on other material, including flags, plaques, glassware and furniture. Bates College’s seal is a type of coat of arms, typical of heraldry. One the left side, it has […]

Lewiston-Auburn

A Lewiston Evening Journal editorial for Memorial Day, 1870

May 28, 2023May 27, 2023

If there ought to be one day in the year so sacred, so uncontaminated by every current interest and influence as to be peculiar while we cherish and observe it, it is that on which the relatives and friends and a grateful community of people go out to lay offerings of flowers upon the graves […]

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