News, features and photos from Lincoln, Mass.
In the News Acorns post on December 12, the link to register for the “Who’s Raising Our Kids?” talk was broken. The correct link is here, and it’s been fixed in the original post….
Show teacher appreciation with HATS gift Looking for a special way to thank an L-S teacher or staff member this holiday season? Recognize them with a personalized HATS (Honor a Teacher and Staff) gift. Follow the instructions on the Lincoln School Foundation web page and LSF members will deliver your HATS certificates to honorees before…
The Lincoln Squirrel is celebrating 10 years of publication this month — a decade of covering Lincoln with 3,534 posts on the website as of December 9, 2022 (not to mention almost 4,000 individual calendar events). To celebrate, I’ve created “Lincoln Squirrel: The First Ten Years,” a 14-page PDF publication that gives a glimpse of…
A Special Town Meeting with one warrant article, so… one simple vote, right? Not so much, as it turned out. The final vote was overwhelmingly in favor of paying for designs for a community center, but getting there took almost four hours on a rainy November 30 evening. The Donaldson Auditorium and lecture hall were…
By Chris Burns Fiasco! The word describes the Special Town Meeting (STM) last night for numerous reasons. 1. While polite and professional, there simply were not enough monitors to check in voters. The lines unhealthily snaked through the school and the meeting start was delayed until 7:30 p.m. This is on the Selects and poor…
After hearing yet more public input on the proposed community center, the Select Board wrestled with the wording of the proposed motion for the November 30 Special Town Meeting amid more discussion of the lower-cost options and even keeping two town departments in their current locations. Public sentiment on the community center idea has swerved…
By Michael Moodie (Editor’s note: This is an expanded version of a piece that appeared in a LincolnTalk email on November 15.) The Lincoln Green Energy Committee (GEC) works to help residents and others reduce their greenhouse gas emissions through energy conservation and the use of appliances and vehicles powered by renewable electricity. Periodically, the…
November 7 Lincoln train station (9:24 a.m.) — A person walked into the station to report that the railroad gates went down and then went back up without a train passing through. Moments later, the gates came down again and then a train passed through the crossing. The party was informed that Keolis has workers…
(Editor’s note: this piece appeared in LincolnTalk on November 17 but some figures have been corrected with permission of the writer.) By Michael Dembowski The town’s dialogue regarding the proposed community center is engaging, healthy, and vital. However, many of the comments being expressed would be made no matter what the budget — the initial…
By Constance Lewis On a beautiful days in early November, I had an appointment in Harvard Square and stopped for coffee at the Smith Campus Center (formerly the Holyoke Center). The plaza in front that faces Mass. Avenue has always been well used by a great variety of people — from Harvard students to Cambridge…