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L-S officials to hold coffee, listening sessions The Lincoln-Sudbury School Committee will be hosting three office hours/listening sessions this week, including one in Lincoln: Thursday, Oct. 25 from 7–8 p.m. — Goodnow Library (second-floor conference room), Sudbury Friday, Oct. 26 from 9–10 a.m. — deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum Cafe, Lincoln Friday, Oct. 26 from 11 a.m.–noon —…

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School project budget, financing aired at SOTT

Town officials provided updates on the two pending school campus construction projects at the State of the Town meeting on October 20, outlining a series of cuts made to bring the school project under budget and a timeline for the community center. The detailed construction cost estimate presented to the School Building Committee in September…

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Birches School celebrates new home

The Birches School is hosting a community open house for the general public on Saturday, Nov. 3 from 1–3 p.m. to see its new home—the renovated Bedford Road property of the late computer executive An Wang and his wife Lorraine. The school bought the Wang property in 2016 in concert with the Rural Land Foundation,…

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School group to tackle final project cost cuts this week

The School Building Committee plans to finish trimming the school project to get it under budget this week as it also awaits final information about potential savings on things like temporary classrooms and site work. The current estimate for construction is $84.98 million, but the construction portion of the budget approved by residents in June…

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Sales of dolls, antiques providing big share of MCC budget

What began last year as an eBay auction of donated vintage dolls has turned into a multipronged nonprofit effort that has netted thousands of dollars for METCO and provided summer camp scholarships for 34 kids. Joanne Schmergel’s Cerulean Way home is slowly being taken over by dolls, antiques and other items she’s collecting and selling…

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Corrections

The agenda for the October 20 State of the Town meeting posted in the Squirrel on October 9 was incorrect. Here is the correct agenda for the meting, which will take place in Brooks auditorium from 10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.: Campus building projects (10:30–11 a.m.) South Lincoln planning (11–11:30 a.m.) deCordova bylaws (11:30a.m.–noon) Open forum (12–12:30…

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School officials begin cutting items from school project

The School Building Committee on Wednesday started the process of changing and removing elements of the school project to meet a voter-mandated budget, making a handful of adjustments from a list provided by SMMA Architects that totaled just over $1.4 million. But the group has more work to do to reach the target total reduction…

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Magic Garden to add infants’ room, second toddler room

Early next year, the Magic Garden Children’s Center will start accepting infants, add another toddler room, and expand into a second location—the “stone church” parish house rooms vacated by the Birches School. There is a perennial waiting list for Magic Garden’s Rainbow Room, which offers the only full-day, full-year toddler program in Lincoln for children…

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Latest cost estimates for school project are well over budget

Town officials were chagrined Wednesday night to learn that preliminary cost estimates for the Lincoln School project are substantially higher than the $93.9 million budget approved by residents at a Special Town Meeting in June. At its meeting Wednesday evening, the School Building Committee (SBC) and others heard the two independent estimates for the project—one…

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Changes at First Parish, School Committee

The School Committee is seeking an interim member to fill an unexpired term, while the First Parish in Lincoln has announced an interim minister for the next two years. The School Committee invites residents who are interested in serving as an interim member (replacing Jena Salon, who resigned as of August 31) to submit a…

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