Maine has a history of major wildfires that have over the years left towns in ruins.
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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Farmers’ Almanac looks ahead to ‘Greatest Show on Earth’
Lewiston-based almanac eyes total eclipse next spring — and colder weather, too.
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President Biden reaches out to Jared Golden during speech in Auburn
Though the Lewiston Democrat has often been a thorn in Biden’s side, the president offered only kind words for the Maine lawmaker on Friday.
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Our live updates from Biden’s visit to Maine
5:54 p.m. BRUNSWICK — Air Force One has taken off from the Brunswick Executive Airport to take President Biden to Delaware. He is set to land in Dover and then head to Rehoboth Beach. As the plane prepared for takeoff, a group of protesters on motorcycles drove down Orion Street chanting “(expletive) Joe Biden.” — […]
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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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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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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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Ukraine needs more missiles, tanks and planes from U.S., says Maine’s Jared Golden
2nd District Democrat among most ardent U.S. House supporters for arming Ukraine in its quest to oust Russian invaders
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Maine silent movie festival something to talk about
Century-old moving pictures filmed in Maine to be shown at Augusta’s historic theater next weekend, among them several involving Auburn’s Holman Day.
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Feds found classified papers among Edmund Muskie’s archives at Bates College
The former Secretary of State and U.S. senator from Maine was one of many high-ranking officials who mistakenly held on to secret paperwork.