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Town still awaiting word on extension request for school project

December 12, 2012

By Alice Waugh

School officials are still waiting for a response to their request from the state for more time to achieve enough “yes” votes to allow the school building project to go forward.

At a meeting of three town panels on December 5, Superintendent of Schools Becky McFall said she had spoken by phone to representatives of the Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA) and gotten “verbal approval of additional time to work with the community” until at least the end of February.

[Read more…] about Town still awaiting word on extension request for school project

Category: government, school project*, schools

Roadside trees marked for culling

December 12, 2012

Dead trees including this one on Weston Road have been targeted or removal by the DPW. (Photo by Alice Waugh)

By Alice Waugh

The Department of Public Works will host a December 19 public hearing to discuss the fate of several roadside trees that have been slated for removal for public safety purposes.

Twelve of the 28 trees within the town’s roadside rights of way have been targeted because they interfere with sight lines at the intersection of Route 117 and Lincoln Road, where 12 are targeted adjacent to 203 Lincoln Rd. Others were tagged because they are dead. The specific trees are listed on the notice of the hearing, where residents with any comments or objections to the removals may speak. The hearing will be held at 8 p.m. at the DPW headquarters at 30 Lewis St.

Any trees cut down by the DPW will be brought in segments (unsplit) to its Lewis Street site, where residents are welcome to take them for firewood or other purposes. If a contractor is hired, that company will haul away the wood, said DPW head Chris Bibbo.

Branches from trees as well as many others that were removed in the wake of Hurricane Sandy and other storms are also available in the form of wood chips at the DPW. Anyone with a Lincoln transfer station sticker may take wood chips and logs.

Category: news

Town Office Building renovations coming along

December 6, 2012

The Lincoln Town Office Building

By Alice Waugh

Officials and workers have been pleasantly surprised at the craftsmanship they’ve discovered inside the walls of the century-old Town Office Building, whose renovation project is proceeding on schedule.

At  a November 16 Council on Aging presentation, Richard Thuma of project manager Bargmann Hendrie + Archetype, Inc. and Assistant Town Administrator Anita Scheipers showed photos of the building’s interior wall structure with angled braces between the vertical studs, which is not something found in modern buildings. [Read more…] about Town Office Building renovations coming along

Category: government, news

Sign up for winter fun with Lincoln Rec

December 5, 2012

Keep limber in winter with all sorts of activities, including ballroom dancing and yoga for adults, basketball and musical theater for kids, and skiing for everyone!

  • Visit the Lincoln Recreation website for information or in-person registration
  • Download the winter 2013 brochure
  • Register for activities

Category: kids

One month ago today…

November 29, 2012

Hurricane Sandy damaged plenty of Lincoln tress — many still at the height of their autumn colors.

Accuweather.com offers some amazing statistics on Sandy: the second-lowest barometric pressure ever reorder for a hurricane (27.76 inches at sea), waves of 39.67 feet (recorded at a buoy about 20 miles east of Bermuda), and 9-foot storm surges in New Haven and The Battery, N.Y. Lincoln got off fairly lightly, though more than half of homes in town lost power in the storm, and the muffled roar of generators could be hear in many neighborhoods for days afterward. Still, it could have been worse — Redhouse, Md., got 26 inches of snow.

Elizabeth Cherniak of South Great Road heard a loud crash as a tree fell across power lines on the road adjacent to her driveway. “Then a transformer exploded—it was like a bomb going off,” she said. “Then I noticed little fires up in the wires and the tree trunk was glowing” as the tree began to burn. Fortunately the heavy rain doused the fire quickly.

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Category: news

How did Lincolnites vote?

November 29, 2012

Based on the unofficial Lincoln tally for the November 6 election, here’s a breakdown of voting percentages for Lincoln and, where applicable, the comparable state and U.S. results. Some of these totals don’t add up to 100 percent because of blank ballots and/or votes cast for candidates other than the Democrat or Republican. There were 3,670 ballots recorded; only six were left blank in the spot asking for choice of U.S. president.

In a nutshell, Lincoln had the same outcomes as the rest of Massachusetts on everything except for ballot question 2 (prescribing medication to end life), which Lincolnites approved by an almost two-thirds majority but which state voters narrowly defeated. There’s more information on each 2012 ballot question below the table.

In 2008, there were 3,448 Lincoln ballots tallied for president; Obama beat Biden by a margin of 75 percent to  23 percent, compared to this year’s margin of 71 percent to 29 percent.

Candidate % Candidate %
President Lincoln Obama (D) 71% Romney (R) 29%
Mass. Obama (D) 61% Romney (R) 38%
U.S. Obama (D) 51% Romney (R) 48%
U.S. Senate Lincoln Warren (D) 66% Brown (R) 34%
Mass. Warren (D) 54% Brown (R) 46%
U.S. Rep. (5th District) Lincoln Markey (D) 76% Tierney (R) 24%
Mass. Markey (D) 76% Tierney (R) 24%
Question 1 Lincoln Yes 77% No 10%
Mass. Yes 86% No 14%
Question 2 Lincoln Yes 64% No 33%
Mass. Yes 49% No 51%
Question 3 Lincoln Yes 62% No 30%
Mass. Yes 63% No 37%
Question 4 Lincoln Yes 47% No 42%
Question 5 Lincoln Yes 72% No 16%
Question 6 Lincoln Yes 58% No 27%

Question 1 – Availability of motor vehicle repair information
Question 2 – Prescribing medication to end life
Question 3 – Medical use of marijuana
Question 4 – Proposition 2½ override for school building project:

“Shall the Town of Lincoln be allowed to exempt from the provisions of Proposition 2½, so-called, the amounts required to pay the Town’s allocable share of the bonds issued for the purposes of paying the costs of designing, renovating, rebuilding, equipping and furnishing the Lincoln School located on Ballfield Road, Lincoln, including payment of costs incidental or relate thereto?”

Question 5 – Corporations are not people/limit political contributions (nonbinding):

“Shall the state senator from this district be instructed to vote in favor of a resolution calling upon Congress to propose an amendment to the U.S. Constitution affirming that (1) corporations are not entitled to the constitutional rights of human beings, and (2) both Congress and the states may place limits on political contributions and political spending?”

Question 6 – Direction to Congress and President (nonbinding):

“Shall the state representative form this district be instructed to vote in favor of a resolution calling upon Congress and the President to: (1) prevent cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and Veterans benefits, or to housing, food and unemployment assistance; (2) create and protect jobs by investing in manufacturing, schools, housing, renewable energy, transportation and other public services; (3) provide new revenues for these purposes and to reduce the long-term federal deficit by closing corporate tax loopholes, ending offshore tax havens, and raising taxes on incomes over $250,000; and (4) redirect military spending to these domestic needs by reducing the military budget, ending the war in Afghanistan and bringing U.S. troops home safely now?”

 

Category: elections, news

Tabla music and pizza this Sunday

November 27, 2012

Sandeep Das

The Birches School and Lincoln Nursery School are hosting a concert featuring tabla master Sandeep Das from Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble on Sunday, Dec. 2 at 3:30 p.m. A children’s singalong led by music teachers Mark Weltner and Abby Zocher will follow Sandeep Das’ performance. Families are invited to a pizza party after the concert at the Birches School (14 Bedford Road, Stone Church across from Bemis Hall).

Tickets are $15 for adults, $5 for children, $30 for families and $10 for seniors. Please pay online at www.birchesschool.org or with cash or check at the door. For more information, call Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis at 781-728-5438.

Category: arts, kids, seniors

New and improved Lincoln Links!

November 20, 2012

I finished alphabetizing my spice rack so I thought I’d categorize and beef up the Lincoln Squirrel’s Lincoln Links. Have a look!

Category: news

Comment: resident curious about swap-table oil painting

November 20, 2012

After reading about the goodies to be found at the swap table at the Lincoln transfer station, Lincoln resident Melinda Abraham wonders about the picture she got there. See her comment here or leave your own!

 

Category: letters to the editor

School hoping to buy time for building project

November 19, 2012

By Alice Waugh

The School Committee has asked for more time from the state and more money from the town in hopes of salvaging almost $21 million in state aid promised for the school building project, which earlier this month failed to garner enough voter support to move forward.

School Committee chairman Jennifer Glass and Superintendent of School Becky McFall sent a letter on November 15 to the Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA) to formally report on the failed town meeting vote on Nov. 3 and ask if the town could have more time to achieve resident buy-in before the state-funding window of opportunity closes. The MSBA had committed to providing $20.9 million of the $49 million that would be needed for major renovations and additions to the school if voters had approved the project by a two-thirds majority at town meeting and a simple majority at the polls on Election Day.

Glass and McFall asked the MSBA to give the town until the end of February 2013 to “determine whether we believe the project can garner sufficient support from he Town, and whether and to what extent revisions of the project will be necessary.”

[Read more…] about School hoping to buy time for building project

Category: news, school project*, schools

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