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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PublishedJanuary 5, 2020
P.T. Barnum’s Maine Giantess wasn’t 8-feet tall but she was from Wilton
Sylvia Hardy of Wilton, the tallest woman of her time, won fame in the mid-1800s as P.T. Barnum’s Maine Giantess.
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PublishedJanuary 4, 2020
Avangrid betting big on renewable energy
In addition to its controversial transmission line project in Maine, the firm is pushing two big wind farms off the coast of Nantucket Island to furnish green power to New England.
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PublishedJanuary 3, 2020
Former Gov. Paul LePage really did move to Florida
The two-term Republican governor registered to vote in Ormond Beach, where he bought a house in 2018 while in office.
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PublishedJanuary 2, 2020
Former Google executive returns to Maine, seeks Collins’ Senate seat
Democrat Ross LaJeunesse said company didn’t live up to its motto: Don’t be evil.
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PublishedJanuary 1, 2020
New book brings more attention to Lewiston’s Somali community
Cynthia Anderson’s “Home Now” offers a portrait of a city coping with an influx of immigrants and discovering in the process a path to a brighter future.
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PublishedDecember 31, 2019
Matt Leonard hopes to unseat ‘super, super nice guy’
The Auburn Republican is taking aim at the seat held by Democratic state Sen. Ned Claxton.
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PublishedDecember 30, 2019
Leeds man fires back after Donald Trump calls him an ‘animal’
Richard Fochtmann, called an “animal” by Trump on Twitter, said Monday he considers the president a bully, a racist and a would-be dictator.
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PublishedDecember 29, 2019
In search of Thoreau’s Mount Katahdin map
A retired University of Maine at Farmington administrator has been trying to track down an elusive ‘diagram’ Henry David Thoreau may have drawn more than 160 years ago.
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PublishedDecember 26, 2019
Baldacci spaghetti fundraiser seeks to help 95-year-old scam victim from Auburn
Former governor calls community response to his fundraiser “amazing.” He hopes to help replace a 95-year-old woman’s stolen life savings.
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PublishedDecember 24, 2019
A 36-acre lot beside Lake Auburn will be preserved as open space
Once part of Whiteholm Farm, a dairy, the land will be opened for low-impact recreation as soon as next year.
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