Molly Rains

Reporter at The Lincoln County News

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Articles

Dispatchers Honored For Life-Changing, Lifesaving Actions

3 weeks ago | lcnme.com | Molly Rains

Every day at the Lincoln County Communications Center, dispatchers are hard at work answering calls and handling emergencies. Often, the conversations they have on the line change lives forever, as dispatchers Craig Balsdon, of Boothbay Harbor, and Richard Hasch, of Southport, know well. On Tuesday, June 3, Lincoln County Communications Director Tara Doe presented the two dispatchers with prestigious awards from Maine EMS, the state agency that oversees emergency medical services.
Gravedigger’s Daughter Summer Shows Mull Modern Life, Modern Concerns

3 weeks ago | lcnme.com | Molly Rains

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Despite Financial Uncertainty, Local Head Starts Hope To Keep Growing

1 month ago | lcnme.com | Molly Rains

Providers of education, nutrition, and family support programs for Lincoln County’s youngest residents are pressing on in spite of wavering funding. “I have every expectation that this will work out. I just don’t see how the workforce can work if Head Start isn’t here, let alone what it would do to the families and the kids,” said Andrew Slater, Midcoast Maine Community Action director of child and family services.
Jefferson Passes $9.8 Million Education Budget

1 month ago | lcnme.com | Molly Rains

Jefferson voters approved a $9,763,805.37 budget for K-12 education during a special town meeting Wednesday, May 21. The budget marks an increase of $1,184,104.88 or 13.85% over last year. There was little discussion among the approximately 50 attendees who gathered at Jefferson Village School to consider the 17-article budget meeting warrant. Don Means, of Bristol, was elected as moderator in a written vote at the meeting’s outset.
Waldoboro Reflects On Memorial Day

1 month ago | lcnme.com | Molly Rains

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Damariscotta salon makes generational transition

1 month ago | boothbayregister.com | Molly Rains

This winter, Linda Forgues, founder of About Face Skin and Beauty, decided to sell the boutique salon business that she has been committed to growing over the course of the past 23 years. While selling a business is a big step for any entrepreneur, Forgues is confident that About Face is in capable hands: the buyer and new owner of the business at 7 Theater St. in Damariscotta, Lauren Albaum, is her daughter, marking a generational handoff for the popular salon.
Waldoboro Parses Waste ‘Equity’ At Pay-As-You-Throw Town Hall

1 month ago | lcnme.com | Molly Rains

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Hot, Cold, Well: Social Spa Brings the ‘Nordic Circuit’ to Newcastle

1 month ago | lcnme.com | Molly Rains

In the woods of Newcastle, a Nordic spa offers visitors an opportunity to immerse themselves in temperature extremes and, owners Ashley Baldwin and Kyle Markmann hope, in community. “It is both a social outlet and a space for wellness,” Baldwin said of Waterstruck Wellness, which she and Markmann opened in November. Baldwin and Markmann became hooked on the sauna experience through visits to thermal spas while traveling.
RSU 40 Voters Approve $40.8 Million Education Budget

1 month ago | lcnme.com | Molly Rains

This slideshow requires JavaScript. About 80 voters from RSU 40 towns approved a budget of $40,815,369 for the 2025-2026 fiscal year during a districtwide budget meeting at Medomak Valley High School in Waldoboro on Tuesday, May 13. The budget marks an increase of $2,120,478 or 5.47% over last year’s adopted budget.
Waldoboro Students Spend A Day In 1888

1 month ago | lcnme.com | Molly Rains

In early May of this year, for the first time in decades, Waldoboro children flooded into the one-room Boggs Schoolhouse, sat down beside their friends, and absorbed a lesson they won’t soon forget. “Stand right up … focus on your elocution,” said actor Wendy Littlefield, who portrayed a no-nonsense schoolmarm in the Waldoboro production of “Vintage Classroom,” an immersive history lesson for grade school children.