News, features and photos from Lincoln, Mass.
Page wins Lifetime Achievement Award Mystery writer and Lincoln resident Katherine Hall Page will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Malice Domestic mystery writers’ conference in April. She is one of the only authors to have won an Agatha Award in all three categories: Best Novel, Best Short Story and Best First Novel. Page’s latest book, The Body in the…
Editor’s note: The following was one of several comments made on the March 29 story about proposed MBTA monopoles and is reprinted as a letter with the permission of Mr. Domnitz, who served on the Planning Board from 2003-2015. To the editor: Although it is never easy to accept the preemptive authority of a state agency, a potential…
By Alice Waugh The MBTA plans to install three monopole towers along the commuter rail tracks in Lincoln to comply with a federal mandate for emergency train stop controls. The concrete towers will range in height from about 65 to 75 feet. Because the pole sites are within the MBTA’s right of way, the agency is…
In the two contested offices in the March 28 town election, Planning Board seats were won by incumbent Margaret Olson and Stephen Gladstone, while former Selectman Sara Mattes beat Stanley Solomon by a margin of nearly 2-1 in the race for Bemis Trustee. Overall, the Planning Board votes were closely divided among the three candidates, with Gladstone taking the…
To the editor: As outgoing Selectman Eckhouse so eloquently noted, our open Town Meeting, marked by civil debates and a search for consensus, is in stark contrast to what is happening in some quarters of the national political arena. He noted that the final votes—the outcome our collective investment of time and thought this past Saturday—proved the value…
By Alice Waugh There will be fewer crumpled paper cups in the Lincoln School’s future after one of the water bubblers is be replaced by a “hydration station,” thanks to a Town Meeting citizen’s petition by a group of eighth-graders. Laura Appleby, Hannah Hwang, Keith Hylton, Roshan Kharbanda, Tara O’Malley, Simon Perry and Zach Tam…
By Alice Waugh Citizens’ petitions on national gun safety and fossil fuel divestment both passed at Town Meeting on March 19. Article 36 asked voters to endorse “A Petition to the U.S. Congress to Adopt a Uniform National Gun Safety Law” and for town officials to convey this sentiment to federal officials. “We want to tell elected…
The March 21 articles headlined “Residents vote to try for school funding again” should have said that Rep. Tom Stanley arranged a tour of the Lincoln School last summer, not Sen. Mike Barrett. Also, the second application for MSBA funding was made in 2013, not 2014. Th article has been updated to reflect these corrections….
By Alice Waugh The town will apply for the fourth time for state funding for a comprehensive school building project after residents overwhelmingly voted to authorize it at Town Meeting on March 19. A year ago, residents authorized the third application to the Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA) and to set aside $750,000 for a feasibility study…
To the editor, At Town Meeting on March 19, there was discussion of Japanese knotweed and using chemical herbicide to deal with it. The Gardens section of the March 18 Financial Times has a fascinating article on the global history of the plant. Two excerpts for your info: “This is a plant that is perfectly adapted for world…