News, features and photos from Lincoln, Mass.
Open Studio art to be displayed in library During the month of October, artworks by members of Lincoln’s Open Studio group will be displayed and on sale at the Lincoln Public Library.The show features the group’s best work in recent years in a variety of styles. The group meets every Thursdays in Hartwell pod B…
The Lincoln Campus Master Planning Committee (CMPC) invites all Lincoln residents as well as Lincoln School faculty and staff to attend its first public forum on Thursday, Oct. 15 from 7-9 p.m. in the Brooks Gym. The CMPC, which was jointly formed by the Board of Selectmen and the School Committee in June, is in the process of evaluating the…
Lincoln Democratic Town Committee to meet At its next meeting on Saturday, Oct. 3 from 10 a.m. to noon in Bemis Hall, the Lincoln Democratic Town Committee will provide an overview of events and speakers at the recent state Democratic convention, and Lincoln resident John Terrell will discuss his pending 2016 Town Meeting resolution asking the…
First Parish seeks teachers The Youth Programs Committee at the First Parish Church in Lincoln is looking to hire two teachers, one for the nursery class and one for the K/1 program. The commitment is four hours per Sunday on 15 Sundays per year from September 27 until the end of May 2016. The ideal candidates are those who enjoy…
Corrected time for OWL parent orientation The First Parish Church has sent updated information on the mandatory parent orientation for the OWL program (Our Whole Lives) described in the September 18 News Acorns. The parent orientation is on Sunday, Sept. 27 from 7:30-9.p.m. in the Garrison Room of First Parish. For more information, email kathycronin@firstparishinlincoln.org. New…
Architecture talk on “American Glamour: Making a New World” Wellesley College Professor Alice T. Friedman presents a talk titled “American Glamour: Making a New World” on the influence of American consumerism and popular culture in the making of a handful of key Mid-Century Modern architectural projects on Thursday, Sept. 24 from 7-9 p.m. at the…
Starting September 16, 2015, the Lincoln Squirrel is switching the service we use to manage email subscriptions (going from Feedburner to MailChimp, to be exact). You may get an email asking you to confirm your subscription even if you were already subscribed. Go ahead and confirm, and you’re all set to keep getting Squirrel emails. Why…
Some Lincoln Squirrel subscribers may have gotten an email notification on Monday morning with an incorrect headline about the upcoming memorial events for Wesley Frost and Gwen Morgan, saying that one of the events is in memory of Toby Frost. The corrected article can be found here. The calendar section has also been updated with the correct time for…
By Alice Waugh Multiculturalism and diplomacy are at the core of Rev. Manish Mishra-Marzetti, the new senior minister for the First Parish, who was, in his words, “raised Hindu, in a Jewish neighborhood, in a predominately Christian country.” Before becoming a minister, Mishra-Marzetti had a different vocation—the Pittsburgh native served in the U.S. Diplomatic Corps after…
Dear Lincoln Squirrel readers, I wanted to let you know about some updates to the Squirrel, including an important email address change. Emailing the Squirrel Last October, we switched to a shorter email address (news@lincolnsquirrel.com). Unfortunately, the server for this address occasionally held back messages as spam and I never received them. As a result, we’re…