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Order senior prom flowers from FELS

Support the Foundation for Educators at Lincoln-Sudbury by purchasing senior prom flowers. Pre-order White, pink, or red rose boutonnières for $20; white, pink, or red corsages for $45; or a combo pack (one of each) for $60. Pick up on Thursday, May 29 from 10:30-noon outside the Lincoln-Sudbury main office. Questions? Email FELSQuestions@gmail.com.

Deadline for Town Meeting citizens’ petitions

The deadline for submitting citizens’ petitions for the Special Town Meeting on June 25 is Tuesday, May 27 at noon. Citizens considering sponsoring a Town Meeting petition are strongly urged to contact the Town Clerk’s Office (781-259-2607 or foxv@lincolntown.org) for guidance about the process. The office will contact the people identified as lead petitioners to ensure coordination as we prepare for the discussions and presentations that will be occurring in advance of Town Meeting.

Benefit concert for Society of St. Vincent de Paul

For the fourth year in a row, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul of Lincoln and Weston (SVdP) is putting on an outdoor concert to celebrate the start of summer and to thank all their volunteers and supporters. The concert will be on Tuesday, May 27 from 5:30-8:00pm on the Weston town green. Our performers are Lincoln’s own Doo Wop Team; Adrian Sicam and his Berklee All-Stars, and Twice-a-Day-Ray, a group of medical professionals by day and raging rockers by night. Bring a picnic, take a chance on winning some gift cards from local businesses, and visit Frosty’s Ice Cream Truck. The suggested donation is $25 a person. In the event of rain, the event will be in the St. Julia’s Parish Hall across the street.

SVdP runs a food pantry in Lincoln, gives financial assistance to those who live, work, or go to school in Lincoln and Weston, and provides scholarships to adults who want to upgrade their skills in the workforce. Last fiscal year they served more than 400 community members and provided more than $180,000 in services.

Talk on “Resolute Revolutionaries”

Dana Robbat, author of the upcoming book Lincoln Modern: Plain Living, High Thinking, will give a talk on ” Resolute Revolutionaries: Walter Gropius and Quincy Adams: Modernism in Lincoln, Massachusetts” on Wednesday, May 28 from 6:45-8:00pm in the Tarbell Room at the Lincoln Public Library. Hosted by FoMA/Lincoln and supported by the Freedoms Way Foundation. Learn how Gropius, creator of the world-renowned Bauhaus that changed the world of design, settled in the small New England farming community and influenced the young architect Quincy Adams, a descendent of two U.S. presidents.

Nolli is acting Water Dept. superintendent

Rick Nolli, formerly the water distribution foreman and senior person in the Water Department, is the new acting superintendent. He succeeds Darin LaFalam, who was offered a job with the Concord Water Department. The Lincoln department promoted two employees and will hire a new lower-level person, said commission member Steve Gladstone. LaFalam was hired in 2021 and was named state director of the New England Water Works Association later that year. “He made the water commissioners’ jobs very easy,” Gladstone said.