Dr. Nirav Shah, director of the Maine Center for Disease Control & Prevention, says informing youngsters of vaccine benefits could lead them to prod wary parents to get vaccinated.
Steve Collins
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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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Bates College selected for initiative to increase enrollment of low-income students and undocumented immigrants
A foundation will match up to $50 million to help those unable to afford a liberal arts education.
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Bates College buys former Campus Avenue convent from St. Mary’s
The 3-acre property sold for $1.95 million and abuts the Lewiston campus.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Residency showdown to decide fate of Dane Morgan’s candidacy for Lewiston City Council
Maura Murphy and Morgan clash at City Hall hearing Thursday.
Posted inAndroscoggin County, Schools & Education
All schools in RSU 16 now require masks
School board members ordered students and staff at the middle and high schools to wear masks starting Wednesday.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Lewiston cremation business owner offered a chance to regain funeral license — someday
State oversight panel proposed a deal that would keep Ken Kincer out of the business for at least a decade.
Posted inAndroscoggin County, Lewiston-Auburn, Maine, News
9/11 proved a ‘huge turning point’ for a Lewiston minister
Exposed to the ‘frailty of the world’ by the attack, a New Jersey ‘theater kid’ discovered a bigger world outside her small town and a desire to make a positive difference.
Posted inAndroscoggin County, Lewiston-Auburn
Auburn’s Leroy Walker apologizes for racist comments
City leaders say they’ll form new diversity committee to tackle racial issues in Auburn.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Lewiston leaders call Leroy Walker’s racist comments ‘hurtful and detrimental’
Auburn council member’s commentary assailed by elected leaders from Lewiston in a statement issued Friday.
Posted inAndroscoggin County, Lewiston-Auburn
Auburn officials denounce those who questioned naming bridge for John Jenkins
City leaders have been largely silent about call by nation’s largest Muslim civil rights group for Leroy Walker to resign following racially-charged comments about Jenkins’ skin color.