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Codman Farm has new farming family

January 7, 2016 by Alice Waugh

Pete and Jen xxx and their two-year-old son Abraham. Photo courtesy Angela Klempner Phtography

Pete and Jen Hashley and their two-year-old son Abraham. (Photo courtesy Angela Klempner Photography)

Editor’s note: This is an edited version of an item that appeared in the most recent Codman Community Farms member newsletter.

The new year brings new faces and changes to Codman Community Farms (CCF) with the arrival of Peter Lowy and Jennifer Hashley as the farm management team at Codman.

For the past decade, Pete and Jen have operated Pete and Jen’s Backyard Birds in Concord and Sudbury, growing vegetables and raising pasture-based livestock. They’ve moved their mini-store to CCF, so visitors will notice a new look at the Codman Farm Store, including a selection of Backyard Birds products alongside Codman’s. Pete and Jen are committed to growing high-quality, tasty food for Lincoln and surrounding communities, so they’ll be expanding production, revamping the Farm Store, and supplying area restaurants and farm stands.

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For Birches School, education is in their nature

January 6, 2016 by Alice Waugh

By Alice Waugh

Lincoln’s Birches School, which opened four years ago with just five students, made the cover of the winter 2016 issue of Independent School magazine and is poised to add a sixth grade for 2016-17.

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St. Joseph’s gets new choir director/organist

September 29, 2015 by Alice Waugh

Daniel Farretta is the new choir director and organist for St. Joseph’s Church in Lincoln. He plays at the 10:30 Mass on Sunday mornings, beginning with a prelude of music at 10:15. Faretta noted that the choir needs a soprano (singers needn’t have experience or be Catholic). For more information, email Sylvia Kennedy at sylpky@verizon.net. …

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“Pony-henge” hits the front page

September 5, 2015 by Alice Waugh

The Boston Globe has applied its investigative muscle to the mystery of Lincoln’s rocking horses, but the ponies didn’t give up their secrets. The Globe ran a front-page feature in its September 5 issue about the horses that have accumulated in recent years on a piece of land next to the large meadow on Old Sudbury Road. The horses have…

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Beating the heat with local ice cream

August 21, 2015 by Alice Waugh

Editor note: This article was submitted by Josh Blumberg, who is entering seventh grade at the Lincoln School. He submitted it to the Lincoln Squirrel at the suggestion of his writing coach, teacher Scot Dexter. By Josh Blumberg July was a hot, humid month and August is turning out the same way. I felt like I was melting…

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Longtime Magic Garden teacher bids a fond farewell

August 11, 2015 by Alice Waugh

By Alice Waugh When Peggy McSweeney started working as one of the teachers at the Lincoln’s Magic Garden Children’s Center when it opened more than three decades ago, she had no idea she would one day be teaching the children of one of her first students. McSweeney, who retired from the preschool last month after 33 years, started her…

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Thomas Rhines, Jake Fox become Eagle Scouts

August 1, 2015 by Alice Waugh

Thomas Rhines (left) and Jake Fox recite the Eagle pledge as they become Eagle Scouts on July 16 at a ceremony by Lincoln Boy Scout Troop 127 at the Codman Farm Barn. Eighty-five friends, family, Scouts and town officials joined in the ceremony and celebration. For his Eagle project, Thomas created digital trail maps and…

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Bikes Not Bombs drive a success

June 25, 2015 by Alice Waugh

At Lincoln’s 4th annual Bikes Not Bombs drive on June 13, the Lincoln Recycling Committee collected 65 adult and children’s bicycles and $340 in cash donations, as well as a variety of bicycle parts such as tubes, tires, wheels, and forks. This is a 22 percent jump from the 53 bikes collected last year. Many of this year’s…

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Quake hits home for Lincoln family from Nepal

May 6, 2015 by Alice Waugh

A Nepalese child in the earthquake rubble. (Photo from OLE Nepal’s Indiegogo fundraising page)

Editor’s note: An April 30 letter to the editor from Diana Smith noted that her son Adrian is in Nepal and is collecting PayPal donations for supplies that will be transported to rural villages. On May 3 she noted that readers can also donate via check if they prefer not to use PayPal. Direct contributions to Adrian are not tax-deductible, but 100 percent of the gift goes to help the villagers; there are no administrative fees. Adrian and his friends will be carrying the supplies through the mountains to the villages because the roads are blocked. You can make out a check to Adrian Smith and mail it c/o Diana Smith, P.O. Box 6294, Lincoln, MA 01773. The memo can say “Earthquake Relief.”

By Alice C. Waugh

Only a few months after Rakesh Karmacharya and his family began calling Lincoln home, much of their homeland lies in rubble after the devastating earthquake in Nepal.

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Lincolnites raise cancer research funds aerobically

April 17, 2015 by Alice Waugh

run Lincoln resident Allison Wiggin Paolisso is running in Monday’s Boston Marathon to raise money for lymphoma research, while Patricia Levy and her sixth-grade son are coordinating Lincoln’s first Pan-Mass Challenge Kids Ride on Sunday, May 3. Lincolnites are also invited to participate in Emerson Hospital Auxiliary’s annual 5K Run/Walk for Cancer on May 30.

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