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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PublishedMay 24, 2022
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
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PublishedMay 23, 2022
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.
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PublishedMay 22, 2022
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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PublishedMay 21, 2022
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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PublishedMay 21, 2022
‘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.
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PublishedMay 21, 2022
Day after day for 175 years, the Sun Journal has chronicled its community
A history of the newspaper in Lewiston from 1847 to the present
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PublishedMay 21, 2022
Almost a murder
A Lewiston Weekly Journal story from June 9, 1885 reported that Mrs. Spaulding was scuffling with her husband. She had her hands before her face. After the officers entered the door, he fired at her.
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PublishedMay 21, 2022
Challenging the ‘old fogeys’ by starting a newspaper
The Lewiston Falls Journal, the community’s first newspaper, rolled off the press 175 years ago today.
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PublishedMay 21, 2022
Starting Sunday: The story of Maine’s most spectacular murder case
The story of that man and that murder, arguably the biggest ongoing news story that ever occurred in Lewiston, will be told in full this year as part of the newspaper’s 175th anniversary.
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PublishedMay 21, 2022
How Lewiston Learned The Terrible Titanic Story: First and Only Complete Account of Wreck Given in Lewiston Journal Extras
This story, which appeared in the Lewiston Saturday Journal on April 20, 1912, is reprinted in full.
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