News, features and photos from Lincoln, Mass.
The School Building Committee this week kicks off a series of meetings to ratchet up communication between residents and the SBC about what the school project should look like—or whether it should go forward under the current scenario at all. The SBC is trying to regroup after the project failed to garner a two-thirds majority…
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By Alice Waugh The Department of Public Works will host a December 19 public hearing to discuss the fate of several roadside trees that have been slated for removal for public safety purposes. Twelve of the 28 trees within the town’s roadside rights of way have been targeted because they interfere with sight lines at…
The Lincoln Town Office Building
By Alice Waugh
Officials and workers have been pleasantly surprised at the craftsmanship they’ve discovered inside the walls of the century-old Town Office Building, whose renovation project is proceeding on schedule.
At a November 16 Council on Aging presentation, Richard Thuma of project manager Bargmann Hendrie + Archetype, Inc. and Assistant Town Administrator Anita Scheipers showed photos of the building’s interior wall structure with angled braces between the vertical studs, which is not something found in modern buildings.
Hurricane Sandy damaged plenty of Lincoln tress — many still at the height of their autumn colors. Accuweather.com offers some amazing statistics on Sandy: the second-lowest barometric pressure ever reorder for a hurricane (27.76 inches at sea), waves of 39.67 feet (recorded at a buoy about 20 miles east of Bermuda), and 9-foot storm surges…
Based on the unofficial Lincoln tally for the November 6 election, here’s a breakdown of voting percentages for Lincoln and, where applicable, the comparable state and U.S. results. Some of these totals don’t add up to 100 percent because of blank ballots and/or votes cast for candidates other than the Democrat or Republican. There were 3,670…
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By Alice Waugh
The School Committee has asked for more time from the state and more money from the town in hopes of salvaging almost $21 million in state aid promised for the school building project, which earlier this month failed to garner enough voter support to move forward.
School Committee chairman Jennifer Glass and Superintendent of School Becky McFall sent a letter on November 15 to the Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA) to formally report on the failed town meeting vote on Nov. 3 and ask if the town could have more time to achieve resident buy-in before the state-funding window of opportunity closes. The MSBA had committed to providing $20.9 million of the $49 million that would be needed for major renovations and additions to the school if voters had approved the project by a two-thirds majority at town meeting and a simple majority at the polls on Election Day.
Glass and McFall asked the MSBA to give the town until the end of February 2013 to “determine whether we believe the project can garner sufficient support from he Town, and whether and to what extent revisions of the project will be necessary.”
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