Editor’s note: This article has been updated to correct the date originally given for the 2016 town election and to clarify the process for changing the election date. By Alice Waugh Residents unanimously approved changing the date of the annual Town Meeting to make sure it always occurs before the town election. The vote came at…
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Letter to the editor: Be sure to attend State of the Town on Saturday
To the editor: We are about to engage in an important community conversation: The annual State of the Town meeting on Saturday Nov. 14 from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Your participation is key to helping shape our future. In an effort to expand opportunities for citizens to hear the current thinking of town boards and…
Solar array considered for landfill site
By Alice Waugh They say you can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear, but you might be able to make cheap electricity from garbage—or at least from land on top of garbage. One of the discussion topics at Saturday’s State of the Town meeting is the idea of putting solar panels on…
News acorns
Bike found outside Clark Gallery Is this bike yours? It was found unlocked outside the Clark Gallery in late October and sat outside for several days. If you think it’s yours, email Joshua Jade at mister_jade@hotmail.com or stop by the gallery in the Mall at Lincoln Station. State Rep. Linsky to speak at LDTC meeting…
Up for discussion: marijuana businesses in Lincoln
By Alice Waugh Is Lincoln going to pot? Not just yet, though residents will have chance to talk about it at the State of the Town meeting on November 14. The Board of Selectmen decided to open up the topic of cultivating or selling medicinal marijuana in Lincoln after being approached by Dr. Stephanie Lipton…
News acorns
Corrections The calendar listing for the October 29 climate change talk described in the October 16 News Acorns gave an incorrect location. It will be held in Bemis Hall. In the photo of the National Merit Scholarship Commended Students on October 15, two names were omitted. Adam Thompson of Lincoln and Tiger Zhang of Sudbury are also…
State of the Town promises plenty of discussion
Residents will have an opportunity to lean about and discuss several front-and-center Lincoln issues at the State of the Town meeting on Saturday, Nov. 14 from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Brooks auditorium. Agenda items will be: A status report on Ballfield Road campus planning efforts, incorporating information presented at the Campus Mater Planning Committee forum on…
Letter to the editor: keep supporting “We the People Act”
To the editor: The legislative bill H3127 (“An Act for a U.S. Constitutional Amendment and Amendments Convention”), which was endorsed by overwhelming vote at Lincoln’s Town Meeting earlier this year, will have its legislative committee hearing on Wednesday, Oct. 28 before the Joint Committee on Veterans and Federal Affairs. The hearing will begin at 1:30 p.m. in State House hearing…
No major obstacles to putting community center on campus, consultant says
By Alice Waugh
If a community center is built on the Hartwell campus, more parking will be needed, but creating a new entrance from Lincoln Road on the south side of the site probably won’t be necessary, according to an interim report by the Campus Master Planning Committee consultants.
Because both a school project and a community center are being contemplated on the Ballfield Road campus, the CMPC was formed to study the basic infrastructure and physical layout of the campus and assess the capacity of the existing infrastructure (buildings, roadways, septic systems, etc.) to support future uses.