More than $50 million poured into the contest between Jared Golden and Austin Theriault, mostly for advertising.
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 inElection 2024, Lewiston-Auburn, Politics
Auburn’s Eric Brakey quits his Maine senate seat so he can vote in New Hampshire
Brakey has long planned to move to the Granite State to run a libertarian group.
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Both hope and despair were common on Election Nights in Lewiston’s past
Worried voters have always waited anxiously for results from the polls, with destiny hinging on the outcome.
Posted inAndroscoggin County, Lewiston-Auburn
Two Catholic churches to close next spring, including Holy Cross
Our Lady of the Rosary in Sabattus and Holy Cross in Lewiston are expected to stop offering Mass by June.
Posted inElection 2024, Lewiston-Auburn
Gov. Janet Mills urges voters in Lewiston to ‘reject the politics of despair’
Mills touts Kamala Harris and hits Donald Trump during a Tuesday campaign stop in Lewiston.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine
Watch: Lewiston gathering seeks light a year after the darkness
More than 900 people gathered to remember victims of the Oct. 25 mass shooting and honor those who helped.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine
Creating a memorial to the mass shooting not expected to be easy
Those working on a memorial have many questions and few answers.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine
How a mass shooting brought Bates College closer to its community
From more student volunteers to special Halloween events, Bates has sought to emphasize ‘common ties’ to Lewiston and Auburn.
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Quest for innovation has spurred many a Maine inventor
Over the years, tinkering, curious Mainers have created many useful inventions, from grippier train wheels, more efficient engines and three-piece boats, to automatic door openers and lifesaving heart starters.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine, News
Lewiston shooting refreshes the trauma for a community leader wounded in Ethiopia
Fowsia Musse says ‘in the face of despair, we find unity in our shared struggles and collective grief.’