News, features and photos from Lincoln, Mass.
Editor’s note: This is a copy of a letter sent to Massachusetts Sen. Michael Barrett and Rep. Tom Stanley on August 15. To the editor: I fully support the conditions in the recent Massachusetts gun safety law prohibiting the sale and purchase of “copycat” assault weapons as described in Attorney General Healey’s July 20 opinion statement…
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…
The wrong time was given in the August 16 News Acorns item for the 9/11 anniversary ceremony on Sunday, Sept. 11. It will be at 1:30 p.m., not 11:30 a.m. The original item has been changed to reflect this correction….
Editor’s note: This post has been edited to reflect a correction to the time given for the 9/11 ceremony. Voter registration deadline for state primary is this Friday If you are not already a registered voter, the deadline for participation in the September 8 state primary is 5 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 19. You may register in person…
Michael McCurdy, 74 (May 28) — teacher, book artist and author; lived in Lincoln in the 1970s Wendy MacNeil, 72 (July 20) — photographer and professor at Wellesley College and RISD; had show this year in Toronto …
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…
A new “Coffee with a Cop” program, video recording of police encounters, the opioid crisis and the possible legalization of marijuana in Massachusetts are just some of the topics Chief of Police A. Kevin Kennedy touched on in a wide-ranging interview with the Lincoln Squirrel. Staring on September 15, Kennedy will host the Lincoln Police Department’s…
HATS meeting on Thursday The next meeting of HATS (Hanscom Area Towns Committee) on Thursday, July 28 will host a round-table discussion of regional transportation issues. Click here for the agenda and expected guests. The meeting starts at 7:30 p.m. in the Lincoln Town Offices. Middle-school girls’ soccer clinic scheduled The Warriors Soccer Clinic for girls…
The identity of the future tenant of the AKA Bistro restaurant space is very much up in the air, as Trail’s End Cafe in Concord is also hoping to lease it, even as Richard Card of Blazes said he can’t wait much longer for an answer from the Rural Land Foundation, which owns the Mall at Lincoln…
Residents invited to forum/brunch on accessory apartments The Lincoln Housing Commission invites all residents to a forum and brunch at Bemis Hall on Thursday, July 28 at 11 a.m. to participate in a discussion about developing accessory apartments in Lincoln. The purpose of the meeting is to gather opinions about various ways to provide small or smaller units for…