Water main update: Town Hall closed on Friday
On Thursday, Nov. 6, Town Hall and Old Town Hall Exchange will be open, but only accessible from the five-way intersection. Tell roadway staff if you are headed to either location and they will let you through. On Friday, Nov. 7, Town Hall will be closed while water lines are disconnected and reconnected. Offices are working remotely, so residents may contact staff via email or conduct online transactions at www.lincolntown.org. Work will begin each day at 8:15am and finish between 4:30pm and 5:30pm as subsurface conditions permit.
Lincoln food pantry gets $5,000 grant
In response to the SNAP funding cut brought on by the federal government shutdown, the Sudbury Foundation announced an emergency funding initiative of $155,000 to support 17 hunger relief organizations across its catchment area. The St. Vincent de Paul Food Pantry serving Lincoln and Weston received $5,000. The largest grants went to A Place to Turn in Natick and Open Table in Maynard ($15,000 apiece), according to a press release from the foundation.
Session on wolf restoration
The Walden Woods Project and Restore: The North Woods will co-host “Potential for Wolf Restoration in New England” with George Wuerthner on Thursday, Nov. 20 from 7:00–9:00pm on Zoom. Wuerthner will provide background on the Endangered Species Act as it relates to wolf restoration, how wolf restoration in Oregon and California has progressed, and its potential for New England. Register here.
Book discussion with Don Hafner
Join the Lincoln Minute Men for a discussion with Lincoln resident Donald Hafner, author of Entangled Lives, Black and White: The Black Community, Enslaved and Free, in Eighteenth-century Lincoln, Massachusetts, on Sunday, Nov. 23 from 2:30–4:00pm in the Lincoln Public Library’s Tarbell Room. Copies of the book are available on reserve at the library or for purchase from the Lincoln Historical Society or Amazon.com.
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