Lincoln has lost 11 providers and a net 505 spots since 2023, by a local nonprofit’s tally.
For the second time in three months, Kirsten Mahrt let the news sink in: Her 2-year-old’s child care provider was closing her doors.
Mahrt, a part-time speech-language pathologist, had used her background in child development to find the Lincoln provider who closed last month. Just as she had painstakingly chosen the first provider, who closed in November…