Editor’s note: This post was updated on March 4 to incorporate several corrections.
The two major local voting days—Annual Town Meeting and the town election—are coming up fast, and two town-wide candidate forums are on tap.
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Property in Lincoln and Waltham being proposed for a hospice facility is outlined in red.
A proposal for a two-story hospice facility on Winter Street property in Lincoln and Waltham, which calls for a 42,000-square-foot building and parking for 87 cars, will be the subject of a Lincoln Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) hearing on Thursday, March 6.
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Several “Lincoln Academy” presentations are featured among the Lincoln Council on Aging activities for March.
The Lincoln Leaf Blower Study Committee (LBSC) is gathering input and presenting results and recommendations at three events this month, culminating with the Annual Town Meeting on March 29.
The LBSC will host a public forum on Monday, March 3 at 7:30 p.m. to gather input from residents on their experience of leaf blower use in town and collect ideas on potential solutions as it presents interim results from its leaf blower survey (see the Lincoln Squirrel, Jan. 14, 2014). The forum will be held in the Donaldson Room at Town Office Building.
On Wednesday, March 5 at 7:30 p.m, the group will meet with the Board of Health to discuss its report on leaf blowers and health. The meeting will take place in the Donaldson Room and is open to the public.
The LBSC will present its research and recommendations at the Annual Town Meeting, which starts at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, March 29. The committee has considered a wide range of source materials, including reports from national and international organizations, scientific articles and videos of leaf blower work in Lincoln. These materials, as well as the LBSC’s reports, minutes and agendas are available on the LBSC page on the town website. Additional research will be conducted to evaluate economics and feasibility of alternative solutions.
As authorized by Town Meeting last spring (Warrant Article 41), the LBSC was created to study noise and air pollution resulting from increasing use of leaf blowers for public and private property maintenance, to research alternatives to use of leaf blowers, to study the cost impacts to both public and private sectors from those alternatives, and to present findings and recommendations at Town Meeting 2014. The committee’s regular meetings are held every other Wednesday morning. Our last two sessions before Town Meeting will be held on March 5 and March 19 from 7:30-9 a.m. in the Town Office Building.
We look forward to your participation in our regular meetings and these three March events.
A film on monarch butterflies will be shown on March 18. Photo: Thomas Bresson/Wikimedia Commons
An illustrated naturalists’ program and a film about butterflies will be presented in March by the Lincoln Land Conservation Trust.
On Sunday, March 2 from 2-3 p.m. in Bemis Hall, Mary Holland, naturalist and author, will give an illustrated program, “Naturally Curious—Wood Frog to Black Bear: Exciting Worlds of the Northeast” that will take viewers through the most memorable natural history events occurring in each month of the year. Her books will also be for sale. On display will be collected items from her forays into New England habitats such as skulls, scat, feathers, and antlers. Free admission; donations welcome. This program is supported in part by a grant from the Lincoln Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies, the last movie in the LLCT’s environmental film series, will be shown on Tuesday, March 18 at 7:30 p.m. in the LLCT office (above the post office at the mall) . Orange and black wings fill the sky as PBS’s NOVA charts one of nature’s most remarkable phenomena: the epic migration of monarch butterflies across North America. To capture a butterfly’s point of view, NOVA’s filmmakers used a helicopter, ultralight and hot-air balloon for aerial views along the transcontinental route. This wondrous annual migration, which scientists are just beginning to fathom, is an endangered phenomenon that could dwindle to insignificance if the giant firs that the butterflies cling to during the winter disappear.
An ewe tends to one of her newborn lambs. Photo courtesy Drumlin Farm
Spring is here at Drumlin Farm, which heard the patter of little (hoofed) feet yesterday and is getting ready for the annual Sap-to-Syrup Farmer’s Breakfast and Woolapalooza, as well as new March vacation programs for kids in private schools.
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To the Editor:
On Tuesday, February 10, the Lincoln Planning Board voted to uphold principles that were designed to protect our neighborhoods and community character. This important vote—perhaps a legacy vote—also upheld the integrity of open town meeting governance.
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Following are obituaries of current or former Lincoln residents as reported in the Boston Globe since July, listed by their date of death. Click on each name for more information.
Stephen Crandall, 92 (October 29) — MIT professor of mechanical engineering.
Irene Smith Wasco, 86 (November 12) — member of St. Joseph’s Church.
Guilbert Winchell, 95 (November 25) — engineer who survived attack on Pearl Harbor.
Sarah Drago (December 2) —mother of four, including Diane Drago-Stack of Lincoln.
The Lincoln Conservation Commission will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, Feb. 19 at 8:15 p.m. in the Hartwell multipurpose room to hear comments on Jet Aviation’s proposal to expand into Lincoln wetlands buffer zones at Massport’s Hanscom Civil Airport. The meeting was originally slated to be held in the Town Office Building. The proposal was the subject of two recent letters to the editor in the Lincoln Squirrel.
Are you a fan of Reiner Knizia’s games? Don’t know who he is yet? Come join the fun in the Lincoln Public Library’s Tarbell Room on on Sunday, Feb. 23 from 3-5 p.m. as we play High Society and Lost Cities. We’ll have Settlers of Catan and Carcassonne as well. If you have questions, please contact Belinda Gingrich at 781-577-7004 or belinda.gingrich@verizon.net.