News, features and photos from Lincoln, Mass.
Lincoln Girl Scout Troop 82742 has installed a pair of six-foot-long benches at the Lincoln Mall shopping area after building them as part of a Silver Award project. To earn the award, seventh-grade Girl Scouts Lucy Dwyer, Rebecca Lupkas, Courtney Mitchell, and Marielle Soluri adhered to a specific problem-solving regimen that includes identifying issues they…
By Alice Waugh One of Lincoln’s founding families is hoping to maintain their centuries-old farmstead for years to come by raising money to turn it into a museum and education center — an effort that will launch with a public event in September. A few years ago, Tom Flint and his sisters — the 12th…
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…
Sometimes a book isn’t just a book — it’s a promising blind date or a ticket to a faraway land. Since Valentine’s Day, the Lincoln Public Library has been offering a selection of “mystery books” — not whodunits, but rather books concealed in wrapping paper with only a couple of clues to help you decide…
Film or video is often used as a tool to tell a story or record an event. But Lincoln’s Tom Flint is trying to expand that tool to bring together people from different cultures through the process of creating a video. The goal of each program is not to teach students how to make films…
After serving as the Lincoln children’s librarian for half her life, Jane Flanders is retiring (no doubt to curl up with a good book), and Lincolnites are invited to contribute to a memory book and say farewell at a September 28 gathering. Flanders, 62, said she “wanted to be a librarian since I was a…
PMC Kids Ride is on April 29 The fourth annual Lincoln-Sudbury PMC Kids Ride to help raise money for the Jimmy Fund and Dana Farber Cancer Center will be held on Sunday, April 29 at the Lincoln School campus on Ballfield Road. Kids aged 2–12 ask for donations from friends and family and then ride their bikes…
Lincoln Trad Jazz Band March 2 from 12:30–1:30 p.m. Come hear the Lincoln Traditional Jazz Band on Friday, March 2 at Bemis Hall. Enjoy old-time trad jazz that will have you up on our feet dancing and your hands a-clapping! Painting in pastels with Juliet March 5 at 10 a.m. Express your vibrant self with…
A stolen date and a motorcycle begin a 70-year romance for the Zarellas—Tony, 94, and Peggy, 92 years old, residents at The Commons. It was 1946 and Tony was on leave from the U.S. Navy. He was looking for a fun night out and convinced his brother to give up his date for the evening…