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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PublishedJuly 17, 2022
Chapter 9: The life and times of James Lowell
James Lowell served in Company G, which never saw active fighting, but didn’t have it easy. Among the places its men guarded were the Seneca Quarries in western Maryland, where the stone for the original Smithsonian building came from.
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PublishedJuly 15, 2022
Ed Rabasco Jr. secures ballot spot for district attorney election
Poland Democrat earned more than three times the needed write-ins during the June primary and will run against GOP contender Neil McLean in November for the Androscoggin, Franklin and Oxford counties DA post.
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PublishedJuly 14, 2022
Bruce Poliquin and Jared Golden in dead heat in fundraising race in Maine’s 2nd
Independent Tiffany Bond has spent $1,100 so far while the major party candidates each have $2.3 million in their coffers
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PublishedJuly 14, 2022
Teen ends up smelling like a rose after helping a skunk
Confronted by a skunk in the road with a cup stuck over its head, a teen rushed to help
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PublishedJuly 10, 2022
Chapter 8: Getting ready for Lowell’s inquest
Interest in the case ran so high that when copies of the Journal began rolling off the press, hordes waited outside the building for a chance to buy one for 2 cents. Some stood patiently for hours since the editor declared that subscribers would get their papers first.
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PublishedJuly 3, 2022
Chapter 7: A big scoop for the Journal
Arriving at the jail, the city marshal told James M. Lowell he’d get the best accommodations possible and brought him to the northwestern corner cell, where the local newspaper editor noticed that the bones collected on Switzerland Road — thought to be the remains of Lowell’s wife — were still bound up in a mat in the corner, some of them protruding into the air.
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PublishedJune 26, 2022
Chapter 6: Rounding up a suspected killer
After James Lowell stepped down off a wagon, where he was loading rags at the Munroe’s Paper Mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, Officer E.D. Wiggin of Lewiston handed him a copy of that day’s Boston Journal, which carried an account of the discovery of the headless skeleton in Lewiston.
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PublishedJune 19, 2022
When trolleys came to town . . . they were pulled by horses
Lewiston and Auburn residents were happy to ride rather than walk on muddy, manure-filled streets.
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PublishedJune 19, 2022
From ‘bone-shakers’ to ‘penney-farthings’ and beyond: How bicycles rolled out in Lewiston in the 1800s
‘Bicycle fever’ reached Lewiston in 1879, according to the Lewiston Evening Journal, and would go on to shake, rattle and roll into everyday life.
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PublishedJune 19, 2022
Chapter 5: Lizzie’s mother has a strange dream
Though the dream had no impact on the discovery of the skeleton, it likely contributed to the stir caused by the find in a spot eerily similar to what Sarah Burton imagined.
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