Route 128 to be topic of HATS forum
The Hanscom Area Towns Committee (HATS) will have a roundtable meeting about concerns relating to Route 128 on Thursday, Jan. 22 at 7:30 p.m. in the Lincoln Town Office Building.
Among those invited are Alyssa Sandoval, Bedford’s economic development coordinator; Stephanie Cronin, executive director of the Middlesex 3 Transportation Management Association; a Middlesex 3 Shuttle Service representative; Melisa Tintocalis, Lexington’s economic development director; area legislators including Waltham Mayor Jeannette McCarthy and State Reps. Tom Stanley and Ken Gordon; commuter program leaders from Hanscom Air Force Base; and representatives from the Massachusetts Department of Transportation and the 128 Business Council.
Although HATS (which is chaired by Lincoln Selectman Peter Braun) focuses primarily on the Hanscom Air Force Base and MassPort-operated Hanscom Air Field, it also focuses sometimes on other regional concerns such as 128 traffic and development that impacts the area. HATS. Recent articles on the subject can be found here, here and here.
Founder of “Frontline” to speak at Bemis
David Fanning, creator of the acclaimed PBS series Frontline, will speak at Bemis Hall on Sunday, Feb. 8 at 4 p.m. His talk, entitled “The Making of Frontline,” will offer a behind-the-scenes look at the series—how it came to be, the battles fought, the controversies stirred, high points and low, and prospects for the future in a rapidly changing media landscape.
Fanning launched Frontline at host station WGBH in 1983 and has been its executive producer and guiding hand ever since. Under his care, Frontline has become the most enduring and honored investigative documentary series on American television, and Fanning himself was recently honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
The event is part of the Bemis Free Lecture Series. For more information, email bemislectures@gmail.
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