Directors urge revision of a pamphlet prepared by the district that urged abolishing the annual budget vote at the polls.
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, Lewiston-Auburn
Lewiston city councilor seeks state House seat
Robert McCarthy announces intention to take on incumbent Democrat Margaret Craven
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Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Local Sports, Maine, Maine colleges, Sports
Bates College accused of racial discrimination by its former football coach
Malik Hall, replaced as coach last year, filed a civil rights lawsuit last week against the elite Lewiston college that once employed him
Posted inAndroscoggin County, Lewiston-Auburn, Maine, River Valley
Lawmakers back long-sought upgrade of Androscoggin River water quality
Legislators unanimously endorse upping water standards from Lisbon Falls to Merrymeeting Bay.
Posted inAndroscoggin County, Election 2022, Franklin, Lewiston-Auburn, Oxford Hills
Seth Carey fails to offer evidence against district attorney hopeful
Secretary of State Shenna Bellows says she will issue ruling within the five days required by law.
Posted inbPlus
A boat, a pole, a dead husband. The tale of Katherine Cornish, Maine’s first execution for murder
Maine’s first murder trial, in 1644, was for a self-admitted adulteress who was found guilty with ample acknowledgment she was a “hussey” and a shocking lack of evidence she was a murderer.
Posted inMaine, Nation / World, Politics
Maine’s senators generally favor US Supreme Court nominees
Voting against Ketanji Brown Jackson’s bid for a Supreme Court seat would mark a break in Pine Tree State tradition.
Posted inFranklin
National experts issue new report on Farmington propane explosion
Report urges firefighters to take a defensive stance when they respond to reports of leaking gas
Posted inFranklin
Police responded to a Wilton incident Thursday that ended in a suicide
WILTON — A large number of police officers responded to an incident early Thursday afternoon on Orchard Drive in Wilton that ended in a suicide, according to Wilton Police Chief Heidi Wilcox. No one else was injured, she said.
Posted inAndroscoggin County
Feral cats use up some of their 9 lives to make it through a fire in Greene
A group that has long cared for the wild cats called the now-destroyed garage Paradise and wonders what comes next.