Through the legal proceedings, Lizzie Lowell emerged as the buyer of a dress and a woman with fast friends and perhaps loose morals, at least by the standards of the time.
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 inMaine, Nation / World, Politics
Rep. Jared Golden calls Biden student loan plan ‘out of touch,’ worries it might spur inflation
Bruce Poliquin and Sen. Susan Collins also oppose plan, while independent Tiffany Bond says the president did not go far enough with his proposal.
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Posted inAndroscoggin County, Franklin, Lewiston-Auburn, Maine, News, Oxford Hills
Shortage of volunteer drivers forces Community Concepts to end ride program
Service for medical and critical care appointments to end next month.
Posted in175th anniversary, Local Sports, Sports
‘Co-eds in bloomers’ played in Lewiston’s first basketball game in 1898
The Lewiston Evening Journal loved the lively new sport when it arrived at Bates College soon after its invention.
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Before radio and television, crowds gathered at the newspaper for big sports news
Before radio or television arrived in Lewiston, sports fans occasionally gathered in front of the Lewiston Evening Journal’s office on Park Street to follow the news as it arrived on the newspaper’s teletype machine from the Associated Press. Take, for instance, the July 4, 1919, boxing bout in Toledo, Ohio, in which Jack Dempsey pounded […]
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In 1884, the ‘very interesting’ sport of hockey arrived in Lewiston
Hockey arrived in Lewiston on March 4, 1884, a Tuesday night, when the Portland Polo Club came to town to take on the newly organized Lewiston club at City Hall as part of a Polo League tournament that also involved teams from Saco, Bath, Biddeford and Brunswick. The Lewiston Evening Journal explained to readers that […]
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Bates College’s baseball team once played the Ku Klux Klan (and won)
At least two New Engand baseball teams after the Civil War were named after the KKK, including one in Bangor
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Chapter 14: Lowell’s arraignment in Auburn
Maine’s attorney general, Harris Plaisted, had ventured from Bangor to Lewiston at New Year’s to work on the case. He intended, as everyone expected, to prosecute the case himself.
Posted inAndroscoggin County, Lewiston-Auburn, Maine, News
Think Maine was hot this summer? Just wait
New study predicts twice as many hot summer days in Maine by 2053.
Posted inElection 2022, Lewiston-Auburn, Maine
Paul LePage questions integrity of voting in Maine’s larger communities
Lewiston cited, without evidence, as a city that requires ‘a little bit more careful’ monitoring.