The School Committee, School Building Committee and Board of Selectmen recommended that voters approve school project Option L3 or Option C at the June 9 Special Town Meeting, while selectmen also included Option L2. Options R, L1 and L2 do not provide the hubs for grades 3–8 that educators have deemed crucial for effective and flexible…
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Three new sculptures at deCordova
The deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum is installing three new outdoor sculptures by artists Saul Melman, Nari Ward, and Josephine Halvorson during May and June. Melman’s Best of All Possible Worlds is an interactive display of eight translucent casts of doors arranged in the footprint of the artist’s apartment—a ghostly exploration of personal, lived space….
School project updates: construction phasing, Town Meeting child care
Some updates on the June 9 Special Town Meeting on the school project: A new view of the options The image at right shows the five design concepts showing their estimated price tags and the incremental educational and physical features of each. Construction phasing If one of the “L” concepts is chosen, construction will take…
Memorial Day observance planned
The Veterans of Lincoln, Mass. (VOLMA) and the Parks and Recreation Department invite residents to the town’s Memorial Day observances. 9:45 a.m. — Assemble at Bemis Hall to march with Lincoln’s veterans down Bedford Road to the library lawn. 10 a.m. — Join VOLMA on the library lawn to honor and celebrate the lives of those lost…
Letter from the moderator #1: checking in at the June 9 Town Meeting
To the editor, I know that many of us have spent many hours planning for and learning about the issues we will be discussing at the Special Town Meeting on June 9. My hope is that in the next several weeks (hopefully on Monday mornings) I can explain some of the procedures we will follow…
Drumlin preschool and director Canelli honored
Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary’s nature preschool and its director, Jill Canelli, have been honored with a Secretary’s Award for Excellence, which recognizes schools and teachers from throughout Massachusetts for their outstanding efforts to improve energy and environmental education. The awards were presented by the office of State Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Matthew A. Beaton…
Committees offer guidelines in advance of June 9 school vote
The Finance and Capital Planning Committees made some recommendations about a school project at the last public forum before the June 9 Special Town Meeting vote, but neither one endorsed a specific design option. The FinCom recommended that the town stay within its state-mandated 5% debt cap, which would limit new borrowing to about $97…
Tree removal hearing on May 21
A public hearing will be held by the tree warden, deputy tree warden and/or their designees will hold a public hearing on Monday, May 21 at 7 p.m. at the DPW office (30 Lewis St.) to consider the removal of the below trees in the public right of way. The cutting and removal of the following…
Town Clerk transition coming; Deputy Town Clerk sought
With the impending retirement of Town Clerk Susan Brooks on June 30, Deputy Town Clerk Valerie Fox will serve as interim Town Clerk until the position is up for election at Annual Town Meeting in 2019. The town is therefore inviting applicants for the open position of full-time Deputy Town Clerk starting on July 1….
Lincoln Democrats hear from state candidates in 3rd District
By Barbara Slayter More than a dozen Lincoln Democrats attended the annual breakfast of the 3rd MAD (Middlesex Area Democrats) on May 12 at the Hilton Garden Inn in Waltham to hear from candidates for the upcoming September 4 primary and the midterm elections in November. Participants gave an enthusiastic welcome to State Sen. Mike…