Girl Scout cookies at transfer station on Saturday
Lincoln Girl Scouts will be at the transfer station this Saturday, March 11 from 10 a.m–noon selling all your favorite Girl Scout cookies. Come by and get your Thin Mints, Caramel Delights, gluten-free chocolate chip cookies and more for $5 per box. Cash, check, or Venmo are welcome. Donations will also be collected for St. Vincent dePaul food pantry.
Weekend activities at deCordova
Mini Greenhouse Workshop with Derby FarmSaturday, March 11 from 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Terrariums are self-regulating miniature ecosystems housed in a glass container. You can personalize your own miniature landscape and walk away with something alive, thriving, and beautiful to breathe fresh life into your home. They’re a wonderful and simple way to reconnect with the natural world. All supplies included. Click here to register.
Curator Tour of “New Formations”
Saturday, March 11 from 1-2 p.m.
Join Chief Curator Sarah Montross for a unique opportunity to explore the New Formations exhibition. Visitors will look closely at the artwork on view, learn about the artists and their processes, and hear from the experts about the process of making an exhibition come to life. Click here to register.
School of Honk at deCordova Sculpture ParkSunday, March 12 from 2-3:30 p.m.
Celebrate music, dance, and spectacle with School of Honk at deCordova! Inside the galleries, visitors can explore the New Formations exhibition, which features human bodies in powerful athletic performance, ecstatic expressions of dance and collective procession. These artworks suggest our need for rituals, ways of gathering, and performing for ourselves and one another. Outside in the Sculpture Park, visitors can gather, sing, dance and enjoy the lively, spontaneous music of School of Honk. Join us for this unique and celebratory experience! Click here to pre-register.
Presentation on going solar
“Adding Solar,” the third presentation in the “Getting to Zero” series, will be given by Roy Van Cleef, manager of sales for New England Clean Energy. Van Cleef will discuss recent technology in solar panels, how solar companies assess your solar panel needs, rebates and incentive programs, net metering, and more. Click here to register. Still to come: “Getting to Zero: The Historical Home presented by FoMA” and “Install Heat Pumps.” The Getting to Zero series is presented by CFREE (Carbon Free Residential, Everything Electric), a working group of Lincoln’s Green Energy Committee, helping resident’s affordably achieve energy-efficient, electrified, comfortable and healthy homes.
Take survey to help town’s Climate Action Plan
To reduce carbon emissions and increase the community’s resilience to climate change impacts, the town has embarked on creating a Climate Action Plan and is gathering input from residents. The plan aims to identify needs and goals and develop achievable strategies to increase resilience and sustainability while including equity and environmental justice throughout the process. Your feedback will directly inform the development of goals and strategies that guide the town’s future climate action work. The survey will close on March 27, 2023. Click here to take the survey.
There will be two additional workshops on Wednesday, April 12 at 7 p.m. and Friday, April 14 at 8:30 a.m. To register for either one or to join the mailing list to stay updated on the project, click here. Questions may be directed to Jennifer Curtin, Lincoln’s Assistant Director of Planning and Land Use, at curtinj@lincolntown.org.
“Newsies Jr.” musical by Lincoln School students
Inspired by the true story of newsboys in turn-of-the-century New York City, Disney’s “Newsies Jr.” is the tale of Jack Kelly, a charismatic newsboy and leader of a band of teenage “newsies,” the young people who sold afternoon editions of newspapers directly to readers on city streets. It’s loosely based on the real-life Newsboy Strike of 1899, when newsboy Kid Blink led a band of orphan and runaway newsies on a two-week-long action against Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst, and other powerful New York newspaper publishers who had raised distribution prices at the newsies’ expense. More than one-third of all Lincoln School middle school students are involved in either the cast or crew. Show dates in the Donaldson Auditorium:
- Wednesday, March 29 at 3 p.m.
- Thursday, March 30 at 7 p.m.
- Friday, March 31 at 7 p.m.
Tickets will be sold at the door ($10 for adults, $5 for students/seniors/LPS employees; cash or check only). All proceeds go towards the show budget.
Rep. Gentile to hold office hours in Lincoln
State Rep. Carmen Gentile (13th Middlesex, which includes Precinct 1 in south and west Lincoln) will host in-person office hours for constituents at the Lincoln Town Hall on Friday, March 24 from 9–10 a.m. This is a great time to ask questions and share your thoughts about issues in our community and across the Commonwealth. An RSVP is requested by not required; contact his aide Ravi Simon at ravi.simon@mahouse.gov or 617-722-2810 ext. 8.
ZBA seeks alternate member
The Zoning Board of Appeals is seeking an alternate member. To learn more, visit the ZBA web page, and download, compete and return a volunteer application form.