9 Lewis St. — Munroe Holdings LLC to 9 Lewis St. LLC for $800,000 (August 31) 3 Birchwood Lane — John Nagy to Kwaku Amoa and Adja M. Doukoure-Amoa for $600,000 (August 30) 30 Old Sudbury Rd. — Mark Goetemann to Paul Chapman and Katrin Roush for $1,425,000 (August 25) 8 Cedar Rd. — Mark…
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Upcoming public hearings in Lincoln
Planning Board Public hearing at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 27 to review an application for site plan review. The applicants, Lynette Jones and Ian Hunter, propose to construct an addition to their home at 6 Oakdale Lane. Public hearing at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 11 to review an application for site plan review. The…
McLean Hospital proposal goes to the ZBA
The Zoning Board of Appeals will take up the issue of McLean Hospital’s proposed Bypass Road property use at a public hearing on Tuesday, Sept. 29 at 7:30 p.m. in Town Hall. A group of 10 families who live in the neighborhood of 16-22 Bypass Road filed an appeal challenging the determination by Building Inspector Daniel Walsh that McLean…
Carroll School gets Wayland’s OK for Old Sudbury Rd. project
The Wayland Planning Board has approved a plan for an expansion of Lincoln’s Carroll School on property adjacent to the Wayland/Lincoln town line. The Carroll School purchased two adjoining parcels last spring for playing fields and educational facilities for two grades that are now housed at its Baker Bridge Road site in Lincoln. The project on 11 acres at 39…
News acorns
Free ‘Positive Psychology’ classes begin Friday The Lincoln Council on Aging is offering a new course on “Positive Psychology” this fall through a special grant from the Ogden Codman Trust. The free, eight-session course for all ages will be held on Friday mornings at 9:30 a.m. at Bemis Hall beginning Friday, Sept. 16. Participants will…
Winter Street hospice construction underway
Construction has started on the Greater Boston Hospice House at 125 Winter St. on the Lincoln/Waltham town line, with an opening expected in fall 2017. The 18-bed, 27,500-square-foot inpatient hospice facility will provide a home-like setting for terminally ill patients who need hospital-level care for pain and symptom management where hospice physicians, nurses and support staff can…
Take the Lincoln open-space and recreation survey
Lincoln conversation officials are asking residents—including children—to complete an online survey to help them update the Open Space and Recreation Plan, or OSRP (see the Lincoln Squirrel, July 20, 2016). The OSRP includes an environmental and open-space inventory and outlines how the Conservation Commission and Lincoln Land Conservation Trust work together to manage Lincoln’s 2,000+ acres of conservation…
Letter to the editor: on McLean, act with compassion and support, not fear and anger
To the editor: I am not a medical professional (although I spent years as an IT expert, working closely with the physicians and staff at some of the largest and most prestigious medical institutions in the world). Nor am I an abutter of the McLean property on Bypass Road, though I am a Lincoln resident…
McLean psychologist downplays risks of Bypass Road facility
By Alice Waugh In an August 2 interview with the Lincoln Squirrel, a senior medical executive at McLean Hospital refuted the notion that the occupants of a proposed residential facility on Bypass Road would be violent or pose a risk to neighbors, contrary to fears of neighbors who have spoken out against the plan in a…
Public hearings coming up
Planning Board Public hearing on Tuesday, Aug. 9 at 7 p.m. in the Town Office Building to review an application for Site Plan Review. The applicant, Seth Miller, 15 Stonehedge, proposes to construct a new home. Zoning Board of Appeals Public hearing on Thursday, Aug. 4 at 7:30 p.m. in the Town Office Building to…