A journalist since 1987, Steve Collins has worked for daily newspapers in New York, Connecticut and Maine. He has served as the State House reporter for the Sun Journal since 2016. Among his awards are the Society of Professional Journalists’ 2016 Ethics in Journalism Award and the I.F. Stone Whistle-Blower Award in 2015. Collins 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-Collins, 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.
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PublishedSeptember 6, 2022
At least 2 televised debates on tap for 2nd Congressional District candidates this fall
There is some confusion about whether Jared Golden, Bruce Poliquin and Tiffany Bond will each show up for a third one.
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PublishedSeptember 4, 2022
The shameful support of eugenics by the Lewiston Evening Journal
A century ago, the paper endorsed involuntary sterilization and flirted with murder in a quest to rid humanity of “feeble-minded” people.
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PublishedSeptember 4, 2022
Chapter 16: An entirely circumstantial murder case
Beyond proving the identity of the remains, prosecutors needed to do two more things: establish that James “Jim” Lowell could well have killed Lizzie Lowell and that he had the opportunity to do so.
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PublishedAugust 30, 2022
Canadian group eyes revival of Grand Trunk Railroad from Montreal to Boston
The plan calls for stops in Bethel, Auburn, Portland and Old Orchard Beach, but there’s no timetable for the project.
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PublishedAugust 29, 2022
Virginia governor’s plan to join Paul LePage in Lewiston draws heat from Democrats
Republicans holding major fundraiser next week featuring possible presidential candidate Gov. Glenn Youngkin.
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PublishedAugust 28, 2022
Chapter 15: The life of Lizzie Lowell
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.
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PublishedAugust 24, 2022
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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PublishedAugust 23, 2022
Shortage of volunteer drivers forces Community Concepts to end ride program
Service for medical and critical care appointments to end next month.
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PublishedAugust 21, 2022
‘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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PublishedAugust 21, 2022
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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