1878 and 1879 – U.S. Rep. James Garfield campaigns for Republicans in Lewiston. 1914 – Former President Theodore Roosevelt speaks at a rally at Lewiston City Hall. 1916 – Roosevelt campaigns in Lewiston for the Republican ticket. 1920 – Massachusetts Gov. Calvin Coolidge comes to Bates College in Lewiston to receive an honorary degree. 1920 […]
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.
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Biden will be first sitting president to visit Auburn since 1912
When Biden speaks at Auburn Manufacturing on Friday, he will be only the fifth president to visit the Twin Cities while in office.
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A doctor from Auburn died at Custer’s side at Little Big Horn
George Edwin Lord, educated in Auburn, became an Army surgeon after the Civil War and met a grisly fate.
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Excerpts from George Lord’s letters to Annie Hooper in 1874
“I am fading away on board a Missouri river boat and one of the poorest specimens at that. . . . It is so hot in this cabin that it is very hard to make any exertion, but I can’t let this Sunday go by without writing you.” “We were very happy together, Annie, and […]
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Jared Golden, Angus King race ahead in fundraising for 2024 elections
Maine’s congressional incumbents are easily outpacing challengers so far in collecting campaign cash.
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Androscoggin County commission considers future of landmark building in Auburn
Officials discuss whether the county can afford to remain in the historic County Building.
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One of the Androscoggin’s mysteries: Why did Lewiston Falls become Great Falls?
The name of one of the Androscoggin River’s most outstanding features has shifted without an obvious cause.
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Clock is ticking on plan for a new sheriff’s office in Auburn
Androscoggin County needs to complete the project by 2026 or give back $4.5 million to feds
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A Black man in Lewiston in 1912 describes life under slavery during his Virginia boyhood
In ‘heart-rending scenes,’ white slavers ‘would sell their own children,’ William Davis recalled.
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Politics and public safety clash as sheriff and mayor feud
The fate of a proposed new building for the Androscoggin County Sheriff’s Office hangs in the balance