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Neighbors appeal decision to allow vet clinic on Minuteman land

(Editor’s note: this story was updated on April 16 to include the ZBA hearing date.)

Mill Street neighborhood residents have appealed a decision that allowed a veterinary clinic to open on the Minuteman High School property based on its planned educational use.

Ally Specialty Veterinary Center, now located on Bear Hill Road in Waltham, is leasing an unoccupied home at 16 Mill Street from Minuteman. The plan is to have the schools’ veterinary science students do clinical observation and training in the for-profit clinic. The Dover Amendment exempts religious and educational uses from some zoning requirements, including educational uses in a residential zone such as the one occupied by the high school and the intended clinic building.

Planning Board members asked pointed questions about how the property will be used at hearings on March 24 and April 14. Ally owner Michelle Custead assured them that her lawyers had OK’d the use and that Minuteman was eager to use her clinic to help educate its students rather than busing them to other locations off campus. Building Inspector M. Jon Metivier approved the use on March 18 with the proviso that the “educational component is maintained.”

But on April 10, Mill Street residents including Bob Domnitz, a former Planning Board member, appealed Metivier’s decision to the Zoning Board of Appeals. They cited the court case Regis College v. Town of Weston saying that projects allowed under the Dover Amendment must the project must have a “bona fide goal” that is “educationally significant” and must also show that the educational goal is “the primary or dominant purpose” of the proposed use.

“To our knowledge, there is no documented agreement or contract between Ally and Minuteman that describes the parameters of their educational relationship,” the appeal says.

“Our onsite partnership with Ally Veterinary Specialty Center is not supplemental; it is foundational,” Minuteman Superintendent Heather Driscoll wrote in an April 6 letter to Metivier, outlining the clinical skills that students would need for future including certified veterinary assistants (CVAs).

“What makes this model uniquely effective is the daily integration of learning and application. Students are not limited to occasional clinical exposure; they are immersed in it every day,” Driscoll wrote. “Without consistent, onsite clinical access, students encounter significant gaps in both required CVA hours and demonstrated proficiency.”

The ZBA will hold a public hearing on the matter on Thursday, May 7 at 7:00pm.

Even if the ZBA decides that the business is permitted under the Dover Amendment, Ally should still have to abide by the town zoning bylaw’s parking regulations and submit plans showing how they will do so, the appeal argues.

The Dover Amendment was also at the core of a battle in Lincoln over whether a McLean Hospital facility should be allowed in a residential zone on Bypass Road. The hospital planned to house boys aged 15–21 in a large former private home to give them classroom training in dialectical behavior therapy, teaching them social and emotional skills including mindfulness, emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and behavioral flexibility.

The use was originally permitted but then overturned by the ZBA. McLean sued the town, lost in land court but eventually prevailed in the Supreme Judicial Court in 2019, but the hospital never went ahead with its plans. In 2021, it found another location for the intended services and put its two Bypass Road properties on the market.

Specialty vet clinic coming to Mill Street

Minuteman High School veterinary students will be able to do their clinical education hours on campus once a new clinic, Ally Veterinary Specialty Center, opens on Mill Street.

The Planning Board will decide on Tuesday, April 14 on an application for a sign on the side of the building. Michelle Custead, owner of the business and a veterinary oncologist, first appeared on March 24 before board members, some of whom were initially surprised at the idea of having a for-profit clinic being sited on land owned by Minuteman, which is allowed to operate in a residential zone due to the Dover Amendment.

The clinic will operate in one of three houses at 10, 16 and 20 Mill St. on land owned by Minuteman that students at the school built as part of their education in building trades some years ago. One of the other two houses serves as the classroom teaching area for veterinary science students. The Ally clinic will become the place where they do their clinical hours as part of their education, Minuteman Superintendent Heather Driscoll (who was not at the March 24 meeting) told the Lincoln Squirrel. 

Ally’s website says that it’s a “boutique veterinary specialty [that offers] a range of services including oncology, chemotherapy, immunotherapy, and palliation.” Students will learn veterinary assistant skills such as taking vital signs, drawing blood, etc., and will also learn about anatomy using live animals, Driscoll said.

The veterinary science program was launched in 2021, two years after the new building was completed. In the lead-up to funding the construction, seven of the 16 towns who were originally part of the regional district dropped out, so the building was smaller than initially hoped, and there was no room for the program at the time. However, since there was job market demand for veterinary assistants, the school moved ahead, first locating the classroom portion in the main building and later in one of the houses.

“Right now we have to transport kids all over the place to a variety of [veterinary] hospitals and clinics, which is not the best scenario for educating these kids” in terms of getting their clinic experience, Driscoll said.

Although the topic of the hearing that began on March 24 was about the sign, the board started by asking questions about the use of the property, which had been approved by the building inspector.

“It’s a slippery slope, though I think you’re on the OK side of the slope,” board member Susan Hall Mygatt said.

“I think the legality of this use is certainly in the gray area,” said former Planning Board member Bob Domnitz, who lives at 21 Mill St. “I’m just surprised that you put that much effort into [renovating the building interior] with the final determination [of use] coming only a few days ago.”

“I guess this is naivete,” said Custead, adding that she had been working with officials at Minuteman and had a “team of lawyers” sign off on her plans.

Driscoll noted that Minuteman has operated for-profit businesses as on-campus training sites for its students in the past, including a day care center. The school’s agreement with another veterinary business “didn’t work out, and we’re always looking for business partners” where students can get practical experience or required clinical hours. Meanwhile, Custead was looking to relocate her clinic from Waltham and reached out to Minuteman to ask if they were still in need of a clinical partner, Driscoll said.

“It’s as if an angel fell from the sky,” she said. “We are very, very grateful.”

There’s enough parking space for employees during the day (Ally does not board animals overnight) as well as clients, Custead said. But Domnitz suggested that she file a site plan to assure the town that there won’t be overflow parking on the street. 

When discussion finally turned to the sign, Custead explained that the unilluminated sign on the building will “give people confidence they’ve come to the right place” but that advertising per se was not the point, since clients will come to Ally almost exclusively through referrals from their regular veterinarian. 

Custead told the board she would design the sign with whatever specifications they wanted. “We want to be a good neighbor,” she said.

Updates on several projects

Water main replacement

Bids for phase 2 of the Lincoln Road water main replacement project were opened earlier this month and the contract was awarded to N. Granese & Sons, Inc, with a low bid of $4.26 million. “After accounting for engineering costs and a 5% contingency, we project a remaining balance of approximately $237,000” in the project budget, DPW Superintendent Rick Nolli said.

Bedford Road drainage

Bedford Road between Five Corners and the well at the top of the hill will be closed at times for work to replace underground storm drains beginning on April 13 and finishing in June. During excavation for the phase 1 of the water main project, the town found that portions of the Bedford Road drainage system had deteriorated beyond repair. The $681,000 project (paid with state Chapter 90 funds) will replace the main drain line, side connections (laterals), catch basins, and manholes. See www.lincolnbigdig.com for updates.

A drawing of the Codman store project plans from October 2025. Click image to enlarge.

Codman Community Farms store

On March 24, the Select Board gave final approval for the project to expand and move the store at Codman Community Farms first detailed in October 2025. The $1.57 million project is being funded through a state grant and funds raised during the farm’s 50th anniversary as well as operating funds. Work is slated to begin soon and finish in November, when the large barn now housing the store will reopen for public events.

Ballfield Road

The Transportation Coalition has come up with preliminary designs for improvements To Ballfield Road for pedestrians and bicyclists as well as repaving that will start after the community center construction is complete next November. In the meantime, the group is recommending a three-week pilot closure of the “slip lane” used by drivers entering from the northeast to see if it improves safety. Working with bus drivers and the School Committee, police will monitor the area and document findings during the closure from April 27 to May 15. The project may be the topic at the March 2027 Annual Town Meeting, with work beginning that summer if all goes well.

Landfill solar

While almost all of the site work is done, the “on” switch has yet to be flipped for the landfill solar array as the town waits for Eversource to complete the interconnection from Route 2A to Mill Street. Officials now hope the array will be online by early May. 

Planning Board votes 3–1 to endorse Dark Skies proposal

The Planning Board endorsed the proposed Dark Skies zoning amendment by a 3–1 vote on March 24, with board member Gary Taylor casting the only “nay” vote.

The proposal would tighten controls on exterior lighting for new construction and substantially renovated buildings while not affecting current structures… mostly. While all existing lighting is grandfathered, meaning residents with noncomplying lights would not be forced to replace them, one section of the amendment language (section 13.5.2a) stipulates that “installation or replacement of exterior luminaires” (fixtures) must comply with the new bylaw.

This means that while a lightbulb of an existing fixture may be replaced with a new bulb of the same type (as long as it’s not brighter or bluer than before), any new fixture on an existing home must comply with the new rules on shielding, brightness, color temperature, “light trespass” (excessive light shining onto a neighbor’s property) and hours of operation (lights must be turned off at 10:00pm in most cases, or activate only with motion detectors). 

This was the sticking point for Taylor “I’ve got serious concerns about this,” he said. “Anyone who replaces a light fixture anywhere in town [and having] to make it Dark Skies compliant raises all sorts of issues.”

Taylor also raise the issue of enforcement. “The building inspector doesn’t even work evenings so how is he going to be able to observe” an alleged violation?” he said. “That leaves it to someone ratting on their neighbor.” 

If a homeowner replaces an outside lightbulb, “you’re not even going to know it’s the wrong one unless you go over and unscrew it,” board member Susan Hall Mygatt said, adding that encouraging compliance is more a matter of “neighbors talking to neighbors” than town officials.

Dark Skies Subcommittee Co-chair Sherry Haydock noted that there’s already a process in place: residents can submit a Request for Enforcement form, but “realistically, how many people are going to rat on their neighbor if you replace a light on your doorstep?”

The Dark Skies proposal (click image to enlarge).

The aim is more to educate homeowners while concentrating enforcement efforts with the biggest offenders in terms of night lighting — large public and private buildings such as The Commons in Lincoln and the Department of Public Works, Haydock said. New multifamily housing is now permitted in some parts of town, “and if apartments come in, if we don’t pass this bylaw, they can leave their lights on all night long. As there’s more construction in town, we don’t want to see that.”

Resident Margaret Olson also objected to the proposal on two grounds. Rather than changing the zoning bylaw, the board should instead codify the rules into the site plan review process.

Secondly, sh said, “I don’t like the idea of having two classes of citizens — building vs. behavior. If 10:00 is important, it should apply to everyone… it does not feel right to me and does not feel like what Lincoln should be.”

Olson, the former chair of the Planning Board, lost her seat on the board in last year’s town election but is set to regain it next week because she is running unopposed for the seat of Craig Nicholson, who is not running for reelection.

Earlier this year, the subcommittee considered proposing a change to the town’s general bylaw rather than the zoning bylaw so the rules could be applied to existing buildings as well as new construction. But the Planning and Select Boards discouraged them from that approach, and Haydock admitted that there probably wasn’t enough voter support for such a move right now.

Approving the amendment would be “an opportunity to implement technology that makes the 10:00 [turn-off time] easy to achieve” with motion detectors and timers that won’t require future homeowners to actively turn off the lights each night,” board member Craig Nicholson said. “I don’t see it as a huge behavioral change.”

Over the course of the year, brand-new fixtures are not often installed in town, and Haydock reminded the board that existing noncompliant lightbulbs can be replaced with the same type. “This may apply to three buildings a year; this is not something that’s going to affect a lot of people,” she said.

Mygatt also disagreed with Olson’s site plan review idea since people who have already built their homes probably aren’t even aware of its stipulations. A bylaw change and the resulting efforts to spread the word means people “will be educated in a way they never will be by site plan review.”

At its March 23 meeting, the Select Board decided not to vote on whether to endorse the measure until the Planning Board acted the following night, though they scheduled a quick meeting right before the start of Town Meeting on Saturday to do so. The amendment has been endorsed by the Conservation Commission, Agricultural Commission, Historical Commission, Lincoln Land Conservation Trust, and Save Lincoln Wildlife.

Planning Board member Rob Ahlert as well as Mygatt and Nichlson voted to endorse the measure. Chair Lynn DeLisi was not at the meeting.

Dark Skies group finalizes zoning amendment proposal

After much debate about whether a zoning bylaw can mandate behavior (specifically, requiring people to turn off outdoor lights after 10:00pm), the Dark Skies Subcommittee of the Planning Board finalized a draft of a bylaw amendment that would put more controls on outdoor lighting for new and substantially renovated buildings.

The board debated the matter at its March 10 meeting but postponed a vote on whether to endorse the measure until its next meeting on March 24. Residents will vote on the issue at Town Meeting on March 29.

The proposal is essentially identical to the March 4 version outlined in a March 8 Lincoln Squirrel article (“Dark Skies group tries again for limits on new outdoor lighting”) except for two added definitions and a wording change to make it clear that the requirement to turn off outside lights after 10:00pm applies only to lights at new or substantially renovated homes and not to new or replacement fixtures on existing homes.

The former condition would apply when exterior lighting after 10:00pm is not associated with an “active use,” meaning when lighting is required for ongoing or expected activity such as a planned arrival to a residence, unless otherwise approved by the Planning Board through site plan review or special permit.

The earlier time restriction would have applied to existing homes as well — something that Planning Board Co-chair Lynn DeLisi said she had a “philosophical objection” to. “I just don’t think this belongs in a zoning bylaw,” she said. However, the issue may come up again if the subcommittee proposes a future amendment to the town’s general bylaw, which does include behavior-based restrictions on things like use of gas-powered leaf blowers and noise in general.

Sherry Haydock, co-chair of the Dark Skies Subcommittee, said that the complaint they heard most often was “light trespass,” or bright lights shining onto someone’s property from a neighbor’s house.

“All these complaints are not going to be solved by this bylaw,” since the new rules would not apply to existing lighting, DeLisi remarked.

“That is true,” responded Haydock, acknowledging that “we can’t change those lights but we hope to change behavior through educational materials, public forums, mailings, and friendly letters” to owners of homes who are the subject of neighbor complaints. The caller from the subcommittee would explain the environmental harm done by excessively bright, misdirected, or all-night lighting. The hope is that those residents will voluntarily change to Dark Skies-compliant fixtures or at least install motion detectors or timers.

Some of that educational material is now available via the Dark Skies survey, which includes illustrations of bad lighting practices, lightbulb color temperatures, etc., and the group’s Jan. 12 Select Board presentation.

Dark Skies group tries again for limits on new outdoor lighting

The Planning Board’s Dark Skies Subcommittee has drawn up amended zoning regulations for exterior lighting fixtures for new construction, and the issue will be on the agenda at two meetings this week: the Select Board on Monday, March 9, and a Planning Board public hearing on Tuesday, March 10 at 7:15pm.

The subcommittee has been trying since “dark skies” rules were first enacted in Lincoln in 2004 to update the regulations on outdoor lighting, which can be harmful to insects and wildlife (see their Jan. 12 Select Board presentation). An amendment proposed at Town Meeting in 2015 was hotly debated but ultimately went down to defeat. In 2025, the group drafted zoning and general bylaw amendments and initially got on the warrant for Town Meeting using citizens’ petitions but ultimately withdrew the items. This year, they had hoped to extend the rules to existing lighting but backed off at the suggestion of the Planning Board and Select Board.

“There’s often a misconception that this is making people have to makes changes in their current residence, and that is not the case,” said Sherry Haydock, co-chair of the subcommittee. If approved, the new rules will apply only to new and substantially renovated homes, though they will also apply to replacement fixtures (not just bulbs) on existing homes.

Members were also hoping to have new rules for streetlights and town-owned buildings, but those, too, will wait for another day. The two boards “really wanted us to do this in multiple stages,” Haydock said.

The 2004 bylaw says that outdoor lighting fixtures on new homes must be fully shielded light fixtures and have a color temperature of 3,000°K or below. The revisions that residents will vote on at Town Meeting on March 29 call for:

  • A color temperature upper limit of 2,700°K (lower figures correspond to the orange end of the color spectrum, with bluer and whiter lights having higher color temperatures)
  • Brightness limits of 450 lumens for walkway luminaires (lighting assembly consisting of a lamp/bulb, housing, etc.) and 900 lumens for all other exterior luminaires.
  • Shielding that causes no direct light to be emitted above a horizontal plane of the lowest light-emitting part of the fixture
  • Limits on “light trespass” onto environmentally sensitive areas and neighboring properties
  • Time restrictions: lights must be “turned off when a property or use is not actively occupied or in operation” between 10:00pm and sunrise for private homes, and for non-residential properties, within one hour after the close of business or the end of the activity or use for which the lighting is provided. In both cases, motion-activated lights that conform to the other rules are acceptable.
  • A detailed exterior lighting plan as part of construction proposals submitted to the Planning Board

The proposed regulations would exempt:

  • Emergency lighting used emergency responders
  • Temporary lighting used for construction, maintenance, repair, or special events for up to 30 days
  • Temporary holiday lighting
  • Lighting required by federal or state law
  • American flag illumination
  • Recreational and athletic field lighting (subject to Planning Board review)
  • Streetlights on public ways

The next step for the Dark Skies group will be working to manage lighting used on streetlights and public buildings. Streetlights have become more of a problem since 2012, when the town got a grant to update all of its streetlights with energy-efficient LED bulbs. However, the new bulbs are brighter than the old ones, and they were installed on many streetlights that weren’t working at the time.

Officials were unwilling to see new rules at this pot that would cost the town money needed to change public building lights and streetlights, though they agreed to hire a lighting consultant to examine this issue. Ideally, the town should “consider turning off the streetlights that don’t serve a purpose or seeing if they can dim them or change the color temperature, but that might need to be done of a street-by-street basis,” Haydock said.

The Dark Skies subcommittee has also published a summary document about the issue as well as an online survey to gauge residents’ knowledge about lighting rules and their feelings about restrictions. “We’re trying to ascertain is what is it people don’t know,” Haydock said. For example, “there’s no scientific data showing that leaving lights on improves security;” motion-activated lights are actually more effective, she said.

The group’s other immediate focus is education about “the importance of dark skies on the hope that people will voluntarily turn off their lights or lower the intensity,” Haydock said. there will also be a system in place where residents who feel that a neighbor’s outdoor lighting is excessive can contact a subcommittee member and have educational materials sent to the neighbor.

Property sales in January 2026

5 Birchwood Lane — Phyllis Gree to Malcolm W. and Elana Chandler for $735,000 (January 30)

12 Pine Ridge Road — Barlex LD LLC to 12 Pine Ridge LLC for $2,800,000 (January 30)

19 Conant Road — Dudley Hollow LLC to Rohan Hastie for $3,375,000 (January 29)

134 Chestnut Circle — Deborah Page to Eric Paul Roter for $799,000 (January 23)

152 South Great Road — Ellison Family Limited Partnership to Jeffrey David Ribens Trust and Linda Melius Rubens Trust for $1,300,000 (January 13)

 

 

Property sales in November and December 2025

33 Old Concord Road — Thomas M. Saidnawey to Angus H. and Jennifer S. Junkin for $2,715,000 (December 19)

49 Birchwood Lane — John Fangman to Linda G. Lee Trust and Robert Reamey Trust for $950,000 (December 19)

12 Laurel Drive — Tao David Kostman to Otto X. Cordero Sanchez and Alexandra K. Eurodolian for $1,495,000 (December 18)

50 Windingwood Lane — Joel K. Wechsler for Kristi L. Griffin and Mark C. Gebhardt for $912,000 (December 17)

34 Farrar Road — Michael Leip to Yingzhao Ma and Shanshan Hou for $820,000 (December 12)

60 Baker Bridge Road — Jocelyn Elliott to Adrian and Laura Bishop for $1,100,000 (December 8)

224 Aspen Circle — Marcia Roehr to Amruta P. Mhatre Living Trust for $730,000 (December 2)

15 Goose Pond Road — Roberto C. Santamaria to Adi A. Davidyan and Rebecca E. Goldberg for $1,500,000 (November 26)

236 Lincoln Road and 0 Longmeadow Road — Michael V. Salm to Ian Campebll for $4,100,000 (November 20)

25 Birchwood Lane — Patrick Zwiedler-McKay Trust to Elise Supovitz for $930,000 (November 17)

99 Tower Road — Mark Bazin Trust to Elinor Hardigg for $1,175,000 (November 14)

52 Greenridge Lane — Scott Miller to Megan E. Galletta for $527,000 (November 10)

145 Tower Road — Ronald Row to Donald M. and Regina L. Halsted for $1,456,000 (November 5)

198 Lincoln Road — John E. Krzywicki Trust to Timothy J. Barry-Heffernan and Emily F. Anderson for $1,940,000 (November 4)

Dark Skies making another push to limit nighttime outdoor lighting

The Dark Skies Subcommittee (DSC) is drafting language to update town rules on outdoor lighting in a measure that may come up for a Town Meeting vote in March 2026.

Section 13.5 of the zoning bylaw says that all permanent artificial outdoor lighting in new construction may consist only of fully shielded light fixtures, and that lights must have a color temperature value of 3000°K or lower. The bylaw was amended at Town Meeting in 2016 to include definitions for some of the terms.

“Dark skies” advocates have argued for years (including most recently in State of the Town presentations in 2024 and 2025) that artificial outdoor light at night keeps away wildlife (thus reducing their habitat), kills insects, and interferes with nocturnal breeding cycles and bird migration. 

Lincoln’s zoning bylaw was initially amended to place limits on outdoor lighting in 2004, but advocates have tried to have the rules several times since then. An amendment proposed at Town Meeting in 2015 was hotly debated but ultimately went down to defeat by a vote of 161–133 (a two-thirds majority was required for passage). The group drafted zoning and general bylaw amendments and initially got on the warrant for Town Meeting using citizens’ petitions in 2025 but ultimately withdrew the items.

In the 20-plus years since the bylaw was first enacted, the Planning Board subcommittee says, new research has further demonstrated the environmental harm of excessive outdoor light at night, and lighting technology has advanced, with more color temperatures available in bulbs as well as wider availability of things like automatic timers, motion detectors, and dimmers.

The group would like to see changes including lowering the maximum color temperature to 2700°K, requiring that outdoor lights be dimmed or turned off after 9:00pm, and limiting the height and intensity of walkway lighting. They also hope to apply these changes to existing outdoor lighting, not just new construction — but that would require an amendment to the town’s general bylaw in addition to the zoning bylaw. In a presentation to the Planning Board on December 9, the DSC proposed that existing properties must comply within a certain amount of time after the amendment’s passage (five years for larger properties and town-owned buildings, or 10 years for single-family or two-family dwellings.

The DSC’s general strategy includes not just amending the zoning and/or general bylaw, but also conducting education and outreach to improve compliance and “identifying solutions” for major light generators such as streetlights, the school, and other town buildings, as well as larger properties such as the mall, The Commons in Lincoln, and Oriole Landing.

DSC member Buzz Constable said that a general bylaw approach has advantages: it would have greater reach and applicability, and it might actually be easier to win voter approval, since general bylaw amendments require only a simple majority vs. the two-thirds required for zoning bylaw changes. (The general bylaw measure restricting use of gas-powered leaf blowers squeaked by in 2019 in a 112–106 vote.)

However, whenever you make a new rule, “there’s an obligation to enforce it,” and the building inspector has limited time for such activity, Constable acknowledged.

Though it took no action at its Dec. 9 meeting, the Planning Board was generally lukewarm about the whole idea. “There are so many important things this town has to do… there are priorities in the town,” board co-chair Lynn DeLisi said.

“I’d like to see a higher level of engagement” using a town-wide survey and/or a public forum sponsored by the full board to hear from more residents, “not just people who showed up for State of the Town,” member Susan Hall Mygatt said.

“It’s a question of how much you can do with the resources you have,” board co-chair Gary Taylor said. “We need to divide this thing into three or four steps rather than just trying to do a scattershot [approach].”

Taylor and board member Rob Ahlert suggested that the Dark Skies group start by thinking about how to deal with the biggest producers of outdoor lighting — town streetlights and larger properties such as the mall, The Commons in Lincoln, the school, etc., rather than pushing for more sweeping changes that would affect individual homeowners.

“If you focus on big-ticket items, everyone’s going to rally around that,” Ahlert said.

Property sales in September and October 2025

15 Blackburnian Road — Lynne W. Cybulak Trust to Patrick and Karen O’Hern for $1,644,000 (October 24)

9 Morningside Lane — Mark Conway to Kayla B. Maple and Jennifer Shehan for $1,650,000 (September 23)

0, 46, and 52 Winter St. — Nancy C. Hammond Trust to Philip Walsh and Susan Barba for $1,925,000 (October 16 and 23)

24 Oak Meadow Road — Lana Motch to Seunghyn and Seungyeon Lee for $1,470,000 (October 20)

49 Bedford Road — Lara S. MacLachlan to Anna and Christopher S. Wolf for $1,410,000 (October 18)

6 Emerson Road — Sandra Damirjian Trust to Lourival Santos for $709,500 (October 15)

244 Lincoln Road — Louise Bergeron to Emily Makynen Trust and Stephen Skolas Trust for $1,595,000 (October 15)

2 Tabor Hill Road — Don Bienfang to Dustin L. Cotliar and Timothy D. Mizell for $1,590,000 (September 30)

45 Farrar Road — Karen D. Sellers Trust to Alice McGrath for $740,000 (September 26)

79 Autumn Lane — Eri A. Buitrago to Robert Saxner and Kimberly A. Pittman for $1,250,000 (September 23)

43 Old Concord Road — Corinne E. Saxon Trust to James Calder Trust and Catherine Dipesa Trust for $2,022,500 (September 16)

138 Lexington Road — 138 Lexington Road LLC to Lexington Properties LLC for $400,000 (September 12)

46 Bedford Road — Jerry P. Coleman to John F. and Bettina G. Dee for $1,315,000 (September 3)