Administrators trying to figure out if campus can operate normally in the coming academic year.
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 inElections, Lewiston-Auburn, Local & State, Politics
Republican primary challengers faltering in race for campaign cash
Auburn’s Eric Brakey has taken in the most money for his campaign but he trails far behind U.S. Rep. Jared Golden, a Lewiston Democrat.
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Investigators try to pinpoint cause of Jay mill explosion
The State Fire Marshal’s Office and others probed the wreckage in Jay on Thursday to determine what caused a big blast at the paper mill Wednesday.
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Janet Mills seeks to help Maine’s struggling hunger relief charities
Maine’s governor calls for more federal help to secure more food and give priority access to emergency food providers.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State, News
Maine’s many summer camps hope they can open this year
Staying closed all summer would be a ‘huge’ financial hit, Maine Summer Camps director says, and some camps may not survive.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Local & State
Maine’s largest hunger relief charity is struggling to keep up
Facing soaring demand and shrinking donations, Good Shepherd Food Bank looks to Washington for help.
Posted inLocal & State
Seeds of Peace cancels summer camps in Maine
The coronavirus pandemic forced Seeds of Peace to give up plans for its annual peace-building camps in Otisfield.
Posted inLocal & State, Nation & World, Politics
Maine’s delegation pushes Congress to provide more COVID-19 relief
Senators, representatives on Capitol Hill seek more help for everything from newspapers to rural hospitals.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Local & State, Politics
Angus King calls for investigation of Navy captain’s removal
Maine politicians spoke out Tuesday against a Navy leader, who resigned at day’s end, for his handling of the removal of a captain who sought to protect the crew of his COVID-19-stricken aircraft carrier.
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Mainers among the worst in providing answers to U.S. Census
State lags well behind the national average.