Trail’s End Cafe is closing after this week, and there are no immediate plans to offer breakfast fare at its nearby sister restaurant, Lincoln Kitchen. In a February 26 post on the LincolnTalk email list headlined “Exciting News from Lincoln Kitchen,” general manager Manny Rodriguez announced that Matt Molloy had been named as the new…
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South Lincoln revitalization ideas gathering steam
Major construction projects involving the Lincoln School and a community center attracted much of the limelight at the State of the Town meeting, but a third more modest project may also come to pass: revitalizing South Lincoln, piece by piece. Several past studies by the town have consistently identified a desire for the area to…
Interactive website brings residents into South Lincoln planning
Using a new interactive website, residents can look at a map of South Lincoln, see some of the improvements being discussed, and add their own comments and suggestions. The project page at courb.co/lincoln was created for the Lincoln Planning Board and the South Lincoln Planning Implementation Committee (SLPIC), which are working to make the area around Lincoln Station…
Board approves study of DPW site
The Board of Selectmen voted unanimously to authorize a study of the Department of Public Works site on Lewis Street that would look at options for repurposing the site as part of a potential South Lincoln rezoning effort. Before the vote, several residents spoke against the study, fearing that the DPW will eventually be relocated…
Letter to the editor: DPW proposal generates important questions
To the editor: I was heartened to read the story (“Residents wary of planned study on relocation of DPW,” August 14, 2017) about the July 31 Board of Selectmen meeting where several Lincoln residents voiced strong objections to the proposal within the South Lincoln Planning and Implementation Committee (SLPIC) to relocate the DPW facility to…
Residents wary of planned study on location of DPW
Several residents at a recent Board of Selectmen meeting protested the notion of moving the Department of Public Works to the transfer station area, but planning officials stressed that they intend to study a range of options for the DPW site. The South Lincoln Planning and Implementation Committee (SLPIC) plans to ask the Board of…
Committee to study future of DPW site on Lewis St.
As part of its work to revitalize Lincoln’s commercial downtown, the South Lincoln Planning Implementation Committee is seeking funds to hire a consultant to do a feasibility study of relocating the Department of Public Works site on Lewis Street. “Every time we peel that onion back and look at South Lincoln, the subject of that…
Hydration station opens in Station Park
The Lincoln Garden Club dedicated the new public hydration station at Station Park in South Lincoln on May 6. The water fountain will allow pedestrians and bicyclists to stop for individual drinks of water and fill water bottles. In a brief ceremony, Garden Club members thanked some of the people who helped create the facility, including Chris Bibbo,…
South Lincoln hydration station stages ribbon-cutting
The Lincoln Garden Club is having a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Station Park on Saturday, May 6 at 10 a.m. to celebrate the opening of its latest project: the installation of a granite water fountain for the town of Lincoln. The park is located across the Lincoln Mall at 145 Lincoln Road. The Garden Club decided…
Members sought for new economic development group
The Board of Selectmen is soliciting members for the formation of an Economic Development Advisory Committee (EDAC). This is one of two new groups proposed for the purpose of economic development in Lincoln; the other is the South Lincoln Implementation Planning Committee. Based on the feedback received during and in follow-up to a December 16 breakfast meeting,…