By Alice Waugh Detective Ian Spencer is the Lincoln Police Department’s Juvenile Officer, but sometimes he draws a different kind of duty: creating forensic sketches of crime suspects. Spencer is a trained police artist who interviews crime victims about what a suspect looked like. The sketch emerges after conversation and continual revisions of his drawing…
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Film on detention of Palestinians The GRALTA Foundation presents a screening discussion of “Imprisoning a Generation,” a documentary by Zelda Edmunds that follows four young Palestinians who were detained and imprisoned under the Israeli military and political systems, on Saturday, May 25 at 10 a.m. in the Lincoln Public Library. The discussion will be led…
Visiting hours this week for Amalie Kass, 1928–2019
Amalie Moses Hecht Kass of Belmont, formerly of Lincoln, died May 19. She was born in Baltimore on January 9, 1928 to Leslie and Helene Moses. She grew up in Baltimore with her brother Alfred Moses and sister Claire Moses Lovett and attended Wellesley College. In 1949, she married Malcolm (Mac) Hecht Jr., with whom…
Six L-S staff win FELS grants
Six faculty and staff members at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School have received grants from the Foundation for Educators at Lincoln-Sudbury (FELS) to pursue their professional and personal interests and passions. FELS was founded in 2000 to offer parents a tangible way to show their appreciation to the L-S professional staff for the unflagging dedication, tireless…
Temporary classrooms coming to kick off school project
The first visible sign of the start of the $93.9 million school project will appear in the center ballfield shortly after the Fourth of July, when the six-month task of installing temporary classrooms will begin. The modulars will be home for the K–4 students during the 2020-21 and 2021-22 school years. The total cost for…
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Magic Garden open house this weekend The Magic Garden Infant & Toddler Center at 14 Bedford Rd. (the stone church) is holding an open house on Saturday, May 18 from 9–11 a.m. The event is geared towards answering parents’ questions, but children are welcome to attend and play in our classrooms, and activities for infants…
Group unveils proposals to boost South Lincoln development
A town committee is proposing new zoning and a special permitting process to allow denser and more diverse commercial and residential development in South Lincoln. A set of proposed zoning bylaw amendments will be up for discussion at the State of the Town meeting in the fall and a Town Meeting vote in March 2020….
Board hears options for DPW alternate sites and construction
Consulting engineers detailed the need for new Department of Public Works facilities in a presentation to the Board of Selectmen — but with the school project underway and a new community center up next, the town isn’t likely to have the money for a major upgrade any time soon. As part of a larger project…
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Lincoln team wins Latino and African American Tenacity Challenge Competition The L-S Tenacity Challenge Team “America’s Future,” whose members are all Lincoln School alumni, won first place in the 2019 Latino and African American Tenacity Challenge Competition on April 27 at Bedford High School. Their victory marks the first time a Lincoln-Sudbury team has placed in…
Free heat pump brings Codman Community Farms closer to net zero
Codman Community Farms has been selected as a recipient of a free cold-climate heat pump from New England Ductless, one of the installers for HeatSmart Carlisle, Concord & Lincoln (HeatSmart CCL), based on the success of that program. HeatSmart CCL is community-led initiative to learn about and purchase clean energy technologies. New England Ductless of…