Edward Rabasco Jr. of Poland launches write-in campaign for a spot on the general election ballot against Republican Neil McLean Jr. of Turner.
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 inElection 2022, Maine
Democrats ahead in congressional and gubernatorial races, new poll finds
Janet Mills, Jared Golden and Chellie Pingree all ahead in their reelection bids, the bipartisan poll found
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Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Schools & Education
Lewiston school superintendent advises talking about school shootings, how to respond
In a letter addressed Wednesday to the “Lewiston Community,” Superintendent Jake Langlais offered ideas for talking with students about mass shootings that have rocked the nation in recent days, including a massacre in Texas that left 19 elementary school students and two teachers dead. Here’s what Langlais said: “I am reaching out to publicly share […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Auburn superintendent seeks ‘safe learning environments’ for students
The superintendent of Auburn schools, Cornelia Brown, issued the following letter Wednesday to families, friends and staff in reaction to worries in the wake of the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday: “The recent horrific events at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, have shaken us all and I find them difficult to […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine
Bates researcher says some policies would reduce mass shootings
Michael Rocque said requiring permits to buy a gun and banning large-capacity magazines for guns would save lives.
Posted inElection 2022, Maine, Politics
Republican congressional candidates differ on whether U.S. should aid Ukraine
In Maine’s 2nd District, primary contender Bruce Poliquin says yes to aid; Liz Caruso says no
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
National professors association backs union’s stance at Bates College
The American Association of University Professors said in a legal filing that some academics should be able to share union membership with college staff.
Posted in175th anniversary, Lewiston-Auburn
Chapter 1: The Mystery of the Headless Skeleton
Let’s go back in time to a crisp Wednesday in mid-October of 1873, beside a small clump of pine trees along the most romantic drive in Lewiston, a mile away from anyone’s home.
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Former Auburn man’s 1897 ‘airship’ full of hot air
The real inventor of the Skycycle flew one over Lewiston 18 months before Arthur Wallace Barnard took flight in Tennessee
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‘The philosopher and prophet of New England’ who once edited the Lewiston Evening Journal
Frank Dingley, who died in 1918, was Lewiston’s longest-serving and most influential editor.