News, features and photos from Lincoln, Mass.
Dear Lincolnites, I am writing today to declare my candidacy for the Select Board seat being vacated by James Craig, which will be for a three-year term. I thank James for his many years of service to the town, and I respectfully ask for your support at the town election on Monday, March 28, as…
The January 2 story headlined “Lincoln mirrors national surge in Covid-19 cases” has been updated to include month-by-month data for Covid-19 cases in the Lincoln Public Schools, as well as the latest number of cases at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School….
Dear fellow Lincolnites, I am writing to announce that I will not be seeking re-election to the Select Board this March. Even after six busy years, untold number of meetings (in person and virtual), and continuously adapting to the ongoing global pandemic, this was not an easy decision. I have been truly fortunate for the…
After months of single-digit weekly Covid-19 case numbers, Lincoln’s caseload shot up in the last two weeks of 2021, with 15 cases for the week ending December 23 and another 29 cases in the following week. This is the biggest two-week total since the beginning of the pandemic, surpassing the 27 cases seen in the…
Much like 2020, 2021 was a year where Covid-19 dominated our daily lives, including a year-end surge in cases — but we also saw the library, Town Hall and the swap shed reopen, and high vaccination rates and lower disease severity make us cautiously optimistic that the days of widespread deaths and patients on ventilators…
A team from Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School will compete as a wild-card qualifier on WGBH’s High School Quiz Show tournament early next year. The six students (including core member Gray Birchby of Lincoln) will face off against Buckingham Browne & Nichols (BBN) on Saturday, Feb. 5 at 6 p.m. High School Quiz Show is a fast-paced, bracketed…
December 13 Paul Revere lot, North Great Road (5:48 p.m.) — Caller reported striking a deer with their car. Officers responded and there were no injuries. The vehicle was towed from the scene. December 14 South Great Road (12:38 p.m.) — Documents delivered to the resident from the Registry of Motor Vehicles. Wells Road (3:33…
In second paragraph of the December 21 article headlined “Stanley won’t be Lincoln’s representative after January 2023,” one of Lincoln’s new districts was listed incorrectly. It should have said that eastern Lincoln will be in the 14th Norfolk, not the 9th Norfolk. Also, the 2023 representatives for Lincoln’s precincts were reversed. If reelected, Carmine Gentile…
As the dust settles from redistricting after the U.S. census, one thing is clear: Lincoln will no longer be represented on Beacon Hill by Waltham resident Rep. Thomas Stanley after January 2023. Stanley (D-Waltham) has been the state representative for the 9th Middlesex district, which comprises Lincoln and part of Waltham, since 2001. But the…
Carol Bradley Caswell passed away on December 13 in Lincoln at the age of 92. Born Carolyn Fontaine Bradley in Washington, D.C., she attended the Potomac School, the Madeira School and Briarcliff Jr. College. After marrying John Caswell, also of Washington, they lived in Cambridge, Mass.for a short period and then moved to southern California…