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Lincoln through the lens

“It’s a clean machine…” (Lincoln Through the Lens)

The Lincoln Fire Department’s ladder truck got a good scrubbing from toddlers and preschoolers at the annual Wash a Police Car and Fire Truck event at the Magic Garden Children’s Center last month. Firefighters parked the engine on the walkway to the Hartwell building than on the paved “dot” on the field below (owing to concerns that the septic tank underneath would buckle under the vehicle’s weight) and the children happily watched the suds wash down into the parking lot.

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Back to school (Lincoln Through the Lens)

Ron Boisseau, beginning his sixth year as the crossing guard near Old Town Hall, greets “AJ” Vander Meulen on the way to his first day of fourth grade at the Lincoln School. (Photo by Allen Vander Meulen)

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Hawk-cidental tourist? (Lincoln Through the Lens)

Harold McAleer captured this Cooper’s hawk (also known as a chicken hawk, though unlikely to be mistaken for Foghorn Leghorn’s nemesis).

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Eyes in the sky (Lincoln Through the Lens)

Some interesting “ocular” cloud formations in the sky over Lincoln’s Muster Field off Sandy Pond Road looking toward the Lincoln School in the early evening of July 2. (Photo by Chris Thompson)

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Kids run for a good cause (Lincoln Through the Lens)

Dozens of families from the Birches School and the Waltham Boys & Girls Club dashed through the woods behind the school on Bedford Road earlier this month in the Run for Good, an event to build a foundation of healthy habits and connect kids with nature in their own backyard. The fundraiser for the Birches School and the Waltham Boys & Girls Club was cosponsored by Saucony. (Photo by Joshua Milne)

Que solar solar! (Lincoln Through the Lens)

Codman Community Farm is about to go “net zero” in terms of energy use, thanks partly to the rooftop solar panels now being installed. It’s the first town building to host a solar project, though certainly not the last — the renovated Lincoln School will also be net-zero. Click here for more photos, and see the Lincoln Squirrel articles on April 7 and May 13, 2019 for more background.

Paying the bale collector? (Lincoln Through the Lens)

Philip DeNormandie turns to watch his hay baler spitting out a new block of hay as he and his family mow their field at the corner of Trapelo and Silver Hill Roads.

 

Philip DeNormandie, Nick Bibbo, Penny and Tom DeNormandie, Kate McCarey, and Vicky LoChiatto with their new tractor (a John Deere after “generations of Internationals,” Tom said). The deNormandies put up about 350 bales of hay in Lincoln annually. This year, a woman from the North Shore who rescues donkeys and draft horses bought the first fields’ bales right out of the field, he added. (Photos by Alice Waugh)