(Editor’s note: This letter refers to Lincoln not being invited into the state funding pipeline for a school project—see the Lincoln Squirrel, Dec. 21, 2015.)
To the editor:
It is the right season, so maybe we can do a variation of It’s a Wonderful Life in which we went back and saw the errors of our way and voted yes to the original school project proposal a few years ago (well, we did vote yes, but not by a supermajority). We would be just now completing the new Lincoln School project while enjoying state funds to subsidize it as well as reaping the benefits of lower construction costs and minimal interest rates. Also, our hard-working civic volunteers would now be fully focusing on the community center and Minuteman High School projects instead of now revisiting the Lincoln School project.
Unfortunately, I don’t think wings will be coming to our guardian angel anytime soon.
To the responsible groups: yes, please continue the fight for the new school. Our youngest residents need and deserve it! As for me, I will start preparing for the higher taxes that I will most likely have to pay now that the project will be much more expensive.
Sincerely,
Louis Zipes
South Great Road
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There is an an Aesop’s Fable called ” The Heron.” It is starkly similar to how we passed by such a great opportunity and now will have to make do with what we didn’t want to have happen in the first place….paying for it 100% ourselves. Shame on those who voted against a new school with state funding a few years ago. That was our golden opportunity for out town and we blew it. Shame on the elitist attitude thinking we will do things ‘the Lincoln way or the highway.’ Now it will cost the town so much more with that philosophy. One other thing….perhaps it’s time to start locking all the doors at the entrances to the Lincoln Schools. Keeping them open for all is reckless in this day and age. It’s mind-boggling that the School Committee will not address this simple issue properly.