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News acorns (10/28/14)

See a slide show of Lincoln’s agricultural history Lincoln’s “rural character” is the result of conscious efforts among residents and conservation groups to protect large contiguous farms and to maintain their historic agricultural use. The Lincoln Agriculture Commission and Lincoln Garden Club invite the public to a slide show celebrating our agricultural heritage on Monday, Nov. 3 from…

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Training this week for election helpers

If you’d like to serve as a poll worker at the November 4 election, please join us for an election worker training from 7-8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 29 at the Town Office Building. For deputy wardens, several innovations are set to be introduced at the election. Please join us for a training session at the Town Offices on…

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Halloween activities for kids at the library Movies & Muffins — Friday, Oct. 24 at 3:30 p.m. Watch Halloween-themed short films based on the beloved children’s books Fletcher and the Falling Leaves and Dem Bones, and the “Little Bear’s Moonlight Serenade”TV episode. For ages 2 and up. Oogly Googly Halloween Puppet Show — Monday, Oct. 27 at 4 p.m. Come hear a Halloween…

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New School Committee member named

The School Committee and the Board of Selectmen jointly voted last week to appoint Peter Borden as the interim School Committee member. Borden will serve as an appointed member until town elections in late March. Borden replaces Tom Sander, who stepped down in September. Other candidates for the interim position were Vin Cannistraro, Lisa Freedman, Philip Greenspun, Randy…

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Letter to the editor: Support Sharon Antia

To the editor: I have only met Ms. Antia briefly, but I am confident that she will be more responsive to her constituents than Tom Stanley has been. I’ve followed Stanley’s voting record for the past few years and have marveled at his weird choices. How could we have voted for this guy? His views…

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Drumlin Farm hosts behind-the scenes wildlife tours

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Lincoln residents are invited to learn more about Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary‘s planned New England Wildlife Explorations (NEWE) exhibit at one of two behind-the-scenes tours (adults only, please) of Drumlin’s wildlife exhibits and wildlife care facility on Thursday, Oct. 9 at 8 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 2 at 1 p.m.

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Drumlin Farm offers winter CSA program Registration for the winter Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) program at Drumlin Farm is now open. Winter CSA shareholders will receive eight distributions from early November through mid-February of vegetables from the Drumlin Farm root cellar, including garlic, onions, brussels sprouts, cabbage, potatoes, sweet potatoes, radishes, beets, winter squash and more….

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News acorns – 10/1/14

New registration link for Ralph Nader talk Due to problems that some have experienced in trying to register for the Ralph Nader talk on November 9 (see the Lincoln Squirrel, Sept. 22, 2014), the link has been changed. Please click on this Google form to register. Blessing of the animals on Sunday All creatures have a place at…

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Jazz group gives books to library

To celebrate the start of their 35th season, Classic Jazz at the Lincoln Library (CJALL) presented the Lincoln Public Library with “The Jazz Shelf,” a collection of books on classic jazz. The books were originally owned by CJALL founders Bill Poisson and Ed Williams, and current members Harold McAleer and Vern Welch added a few of…

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News acorns – 9/18/14

acornOpen house features Lincoln Minute Men, refurbished historic home

At an open house on Saturday, Sept. 20, the Lincoln Minute Men will do musket-firing demonstrations at 10 a.m., noon and 1 p.m., as well as drills for children, fife and drum music, and demonstrations of sewing, spinning and colonial clothing throughout the day from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event will take place at the Captain William Smith House in the Minute Man National Historical Park on Route 2A near Bedford Road (park in the Hartwell Tavern lot).

Lincoln Minute Men (soldiers, musicians and townspeople) will greet the public in colonial attire and welcome them into the Smith House, which has been refurbished thanks to the concerted effort of the Lincoln Minute Men and the support of friends through donations. The Minute Men worked with the National Park to locate and donate items similar to those that might have been found on that day in the three ground floor rooms of a New England house: the formal parlor, the keeping room and the kitchen. Come and see the walking wheel for spinning wool, the infant’s cradle with reproduction tick and blanket, the kitchen cupboard stocked with redware and pewter, items for cooking on the hearth, a tilt-top table set for tea, a gate-leg table set for Catharine and William’s dinner, a desk where the Smiths could pay bills and write correspondence, and much more.

Also open to the public on September 20 are two other “witness houses” to the events of April 19, 1775: the Hartwell Tavern, where there will be demonstrations of historic crafts and trades, and the Col. James Barrett House in Concord, where His Majesty’s 63rd Regiment of Foot will be displaying British uniforms of the period.

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