News, features and photos from Lincoln, Mass.
The Zoning Board of the Appeals of the Town of Lincoln will hold a public hearing on Thursday, Feb. 2 at 7:30 p.m. in the Town Office Building to hear and to act on the following petitions under the Zoning Bylaws: Nunzio Domilici, 22 Deer Run Road, for transfer and renewal of an accessory apartment special…
(Editor’s note: See this Lincoln Squirrel article from July 2016 for more background.) To the editor: Lincoln’s update to the Open Space and Recreation Plan (OSRP) is nearly complete (the previous update was published in 2008). The OSRP Committee has worked diligently over the last eight months to get to this point. There were two…
Candidates still needed for two town posts There’s still time to run for office in the upcoming Town Election of March 27. Currently there are no candidates for the Housing Commission (a three-year seat) or Bemis Board of Trustees (a one-year seat). The deadline to take out nomination papers from the Town Clerk’s office is…
The School Committee has voted unanimously to recommend that the town move forward with a Lincoln-funded school project and not reapply for state funding. There will be a multi-board meeting on Monday, Jan. 30 at 7 p.m. in the Brooks gym to discuss the school project. In an earlier announcement about that meeting, the committee…
For the Women’s March on January 21, the Lincoln Democratic Town Committee organized a bus to Boston Common for 50 participants under the group title of “Lincoln Marchers,” while many other residents made the trek to the nation’s capital. Marches in Washington and other U. S cities drew at least 1 million people in total, and…
Lincoln had a very successful early voting turnout in 2016—so successful that there will have to be some voting adjustments and probably expenditures made before the next biennial election in 2018. At almost 41 percent, Lincoln had the fifth-highest early voting turnout in Massachusetts in 2016, the first year in which early voting became available…
At Town Meeting in March, residents will have yet another chance to chart a course for a multimillion-dollar school project—going it alone, or seeking partial state funding for the fifth time. But barring a major crisis at the Lincoln School, state funding is looking increasingly unlikely as the competition for grants gets fiercer by the year….
Talk on winter and gypsy moths The outbreaks of gypsy moths in Massachusetts have been building for several years, and 2016 saw the largest in 35 years. Hear about the progress being made with biological controls and get an update on the spread of these insects in New England from Joe Elkinton, professor of entomology in…
(Editor’s note: The Boston Globe ran a story about this issue on January 3, 2016.) To the editor: Recently proposed changes to MassHealth eligibility requirements would make it harder for residents older than 65 to establish special-needs trust accounts and still qualify for nursing home care and other health services from state and federal government agencies….
The Lincoln Hazard Mitigation Plan is being updated to help the town to reduce its vulnerability to natural hazard events such as flooding, hurricanes, winter storms, extreme heat, fire and wind. The town held a series of public meetings and is about to submit the plan to the Massachusetts and federal emergency management agencies. The draft of the…