Following are obituaries of current or former Lincoln residents as reported in the Boston Globe since April, listed by their date of death.
Nicholas V. Drago, 100 (June 18) – father of four, including Diane M. Drago-Stack of Lincoln.
J. Neil Morrissey, 83 (June 15) – worked family-owned Oriole Farm on Route 2.
Jane E. Row, 90 (May 7) – taught math at the Fenn School and Lincoln-Sudbury, orchestrated Tower Road Christmas caroling.
Lincoln residents are invited to join the annual July 4 parade with a float or creative entry. Click here for a full schedule of the day’s festivities, which includes a Firecracker Run, Boy Scout cookout, town-wide tennis tournament and Codman Pool free swim, and evening barbecue, concert and fireworks display.
This year’s parade theme is “Townies: Show Your Pride.” The parade marshall is former Selectman Gary Taylor. He was a leading voice on the Housing Commission and a long-term Finance Committee member before becoming a selectman, where his keen financial mind and unflappable demeanor helped steer our community for nine years. His dedication and continued service continues in our theme of “Townies: Show Your Pride.”
Prizes will be awarded for the most creative floats as participants march in the parade. Download a parade application from the Parks and Recreation Department website and return either by emailing the PDF to eventssubcommittee@gmail.com or mailing it to the Parks and Recreation Department at 16 Lincoln Road. On the morning of July Fourth, please meet on Ballfield Road before 9:45 a.m. Due to concerns about young children chasing thrown candy out in front of motorized floats, absolutely no candy may be thrown from your float. Handing candy out alongside your float is fine.
Members of the 2013 Events Subcommittee Parade Crew are Maggie Dwyer, Michela Eckhouse, Callie Flanagan, Sam Kupperstein, Riley McCabe, Anna Menkis, Bridget Menkis, Eve Montie, Hailey Rosenblatt and Nick Virkler.
The Lincoln Town Office Building
The town offices will now be closed to the public from Wednesday, June 26 through noon on Monday, July 1 to accommodate the move from the temporary space in the Hartwell pods back to the renovated Town Office Building at 16 Lincoln Road. Offices will reopen to the public at the Lincoln Road location at noon on Monday, July 1.
The building’s dedication ceremony schedule has not changed — it will be Saturday, June 22 at 11 a.m.
Summer hours in July and August for the town offices will be Monday through Thursday from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. (closed Fridays).
The Lincoln Town Office Building
The renovated Town Office Building will be dedicated in a ceremony on Saturday, June 22 at 11 a.m., and officials are asking residents to carpool, bike or walk to this much-anticipated event, as parking is limited.
Town offices will be closed to the public from Friday, June 21 through Wednesday, June 26 to accommodate the move from the Hartwell pods back to the renovated Town Office Building at 16 Lincoln Road. Offices will reopen to the public at that location on Thursday, June 27 The Town Clerk’s office will remain open to the public at the Ballfield Road location through the end of June.
Kids and teachers will see some new items in the Lincoln School next year as a result of the PTO redeeming several months’ worth of collected Donelan’s grocery receipts.
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The July 4th fireworks organizers need help from 4-11 p.m. We need able-bodied students (the older the better) and adults to help with:
Contact Dan Pereira at the Parks and Recreation Department at dpereira@lincnet.org if you’re able to help out. We have a lot of fun, and many hands make light work!
The Lincoln Town Office Building
The renovated Town Office Building will have a ribbon-cutting ceremony and open house on Saturday, June 22 at 11 a.m.
Over the past 17 months, the historical 16,000-square-foot building at 16 Lincoln Road has been gutted down to the framing (see the Lincoln Squirrel, December 6, 2012) while town staff have operated out of the Hartwell pods. The renovated building will feature two new stairwells and an elevator as well as energy-efficient wiring, heating and cooling, and lighting design to meet LEED silver certification. The basement level has been designed as office space so there will be three full floors of office and meeting space for staff and residents.
Design work was done by Donham & Sweeney Architects and the builder is Colantonio Construction.
Julie Brogan, Ray Shepard, Kate Dahmen and Bryn Gingrich of the Friends of the Lincoln Library stuff phone directories in envelopes for mailing.
Every household in Lincoln will soon receive a free copy of the 2013 edition of the spiral-bound town telephone directory, courtesy of the Friends of the Lincoln Library.
Advertisers listed in the directory’s yellow pages are generally local and known around town. The FOLL are grateful to the businesses in the directory and encourage residents to support them.
A new feature of the 2011 edition is the “pink pages” section that lists organizations and resources that enhance the health and well-being of the Lincoln community. This has been continued in the 2013 edition. The pink pages are sponsored by the town’s Healthy Communities Assessment and Planning Project (download report here) under a grant from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
The Friends of the Lincoln Library raises money through telephone directory ads, monthly book sales, dues and other means to support the Lincoln Public Library’s adult and children’s programs, museum passes, and library furnishings and equipment.
Additional copies of the directory may be purchased at the library or the Old Town Hall Exchange.
By Alice Waugh
The president of the company in charge of tree removal for the Route 2 project said on May 31 that no trees were removed unnecessarily and that his workers cut down only those they were asked to remove.
Lincoln residents near the highway construction site, especially in the Brooks Road vicinity, have complained about what they say is excessive tree removal among other issues related to the work, and the Board of Selectman has named a Route 2 Oversight Committee to gather more information (see related story).
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By Alice Waugh
Lincoln has formed a new Route 2 Oversight Committee to coordinate the town’s actions in response to problems arising from the Route 2 construction project.
Residents who live near the construction areas have complained repeatedly to the Board of Selectmen and Lincoln police about issues including alleged traffic violations by construction equipment, disruptive night work and the visual impact of tree-cutting near the highway. At the May 23 selectmen’s meeting, a coalition called the Brooks Road Abutters Group (BRAG) presented selectmen last week with a memo containing photos and a demand that BRAG and the town be “compensated for the unnecessary removal of these trees with additional replacement trees over and above those shown on the contract drawings, with species, size and location determined by the abutters.”
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