Staying closed all summer would be a ‘huge’ financial hit, Maine Summer Camps director says, and some camps may not survive.
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 inLewiston-Auburn, Maine
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.
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Posted inMaine
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 inMaine, 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, Maine, 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.
Posted inMaine, Nation & World, Politics
Mainers among the worst in providing answers to U.S. Census
State lags well behind the national average.
Posted inBusiness, Health, Lewiston-Auburn, Maine
Maine hospitals face financial crunch but remain focused on coronavirus crisis
The state’s hospitals have seen revenues dip by 50% in recent days because they shifted from normal services to preparing for a surge of COVID-19 patients.
Posted inElections, Maine, Politics
Eric Brakey denounces $2.2 trillion relief bill as a ‘rotten deal for the American people’
Eric Brakey is alone among the three Republicans in Maine’s 2nd District congressional primary in rejecting the compromise bill that won unanimous backing in the U.S. Senate.
Posted inElections, Maine, Politics
Republican congressional contenders clash over appropriate campaigning during emergency
Adrienne Bennett accused Eric Brakey of putting elderly and sick at risk from COVID-19 by knocking on doors in a bid to gain more 2nd District votes.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine
Food bank calls on Mainers to stop hoarding
Good Shepherd president says hoarders are ‘creating a crisis’ by snatching up months’ worth of food and emptying out grocery stores.