Lincoln News - Our Staff

Roberta Whalen - Owner/Publisher/General Manager

Roberta Whalen is the wife of previous owner David Whalen. As General Manager, Roberta oversees the daily operations at the news, personnel, all newspaper and commercial printing production, and community/public relations.

Delores Dill - Production Manager/Editor

Delores, a Lincoln native, served in the Navy for 20 years in the communications field. Upon her retirement from the Navy in 2000, she moved to NH where she worked at New Hampshire Ball Bearing and worked her way up from an assembler to a technician. She moved back home to Lincoln in 2007 and joined the News staff in 2008 as a collater and worked her way up to her current position. Her duties include final newspaper layout production, creating ads as well as head of the Coming Events and Greater Lincoln Pages and Area Sports Pages.

Ben Meiklejohn - News Reporter/Photographer

Ben graduated from the University of Maine with a degree in English and concentration in creative writing. He has been a journalist for the Portland Phoenix and the Biddeford-Saco-Old Orchard Beach Courier. Ben has lived in a diverse range of Maine towns, including Acton, Kennebunk, Lincoln, Madawaska, Mount Desert, Old Town, Orono, Portland, Sangerville and Shapleigh -- giving him a comprehensive experience of the Mainer identity.

Brian Brown - News/Sports Reporter

Brian Brown graduated from UMaine with a journalism degree in 2006. Brian’s passion for sports shows in his highly accurate reporting of all Katahdin region school teams activities. Brian not only reports sports, he is also a fine news writer and supplies in-depth reporting of a broad range of newsworthy coverage on in the Katahdin arena.

Freelance Reporters

Shelley Farrington - Katahdin Region

Morgan Burak - Office Assistant/Customer Service/Production Assistant

Morgan Burak joined the Lincoln News team in 2024 and quickly learned administrative functions, customer service and ad layout to include display ads, classified ads, public notices as well as Cards of Thanks, In Memoriams and obituaries. She is also responsible for management of the subscription database and updating billing and payments.

Shandi Daigle - Customer Service/Production Assistant

Shandi Daigle joined the Lincoln News team in 2015 after working at the Lincoln Memorial Library for several years. She helps with customer service as well as doing production layout. Shandi is in charge of the Katahdin section of the newspaper.

Lincoln Office:

Roberta Whalen

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Morgan Burak

Office Assistant

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Delores Dill

Production Manager/Editor

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Ben Meiklejohn

Reporter/Photographer

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