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Events in the next few days in Lincoln include a trip down memory lane with several former Lincoln police chiefs, a town candidate forum, and Drumlin Farm’s annual Sap-to-Syrup breakfast. On Friday, March 14, the Lincoln Council on Aging will screen “50 Years of Public Safety” starting at 1 p.m. in Bemis Hall. The 2004…
To the Editor: I am pleased to support Peter Braun for reelection as Selectman. I have known Peter for close to 30 years, as parents on various sport sidelines, as co-members of a number of committees including the Community Preservation Committee, and as a good friend. As a Selectman for the past three years, he…
To the Editor:
A lot of attention has been focused lately on the impact of the Route 2 Crosby Corner upgrade project. There has been outrage over the unexpectedly extensive tree cutting, the daily traffic delays and the encroachment onto private lands owned by Route 2 abutters.
Below are some statements issued over the past few weeks by candidates for town office at the election on March 31. If you are on the ballot and would like to submit a statement to the Lincoln Squirrel, please email lincolnsquirrelnews@gmail.com. Coming soon: articles on the two candidates for Board of Selectman.
There were several errors in the election ballot published in the Lincoln Squirrel on March 3: There are now two candidates for two seats on the Bemis Trustees, Melinda Abraham and Stephen Atlas. Lincoln-Sudbury School Committee candidate Michael Walsh and Planning Board candidate Gary Taylor have withdrawn and will not appear on the ballot. The middle name of Commissioner of…
Editor’s note: This letter concerning a March 6 Zoning Board of Appeals hearing was also submitted by the author to the Zoning Board of Appeals. See the Lincoln Squirrel (March 2, 2014) for background information.
Property in Lincoln and Waltham being proposed for a hospice facility is outlined in red.
A proposal for a two-story hospice facility on Winter Street property in Lincoln and Waltham, which calls for a 42,000-square-foot building and parking for 87 cars, will be the subject of a Lincoln Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) hearing on Thursday, March 6.
By Alice Waugh
In response to residents’ requests at a multiboard meeting to discuss school renovations, officials made a last-minute change in the Town Meeting agenda so the School Committee could ask for money to find out what exclusively town-funded school renovations might cost.
The Lincoln Conservation Commission will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, Feb. 19 at 8:15 p.m. in the Hartwell multipurpose room to hear comments on Jet Aviation’s proposal to expand into Lincoln wetlands buffer zones at Massport’s Hanscom Civil Airport. The meeting was originally slated to be held in the Town Office Building. The proposal was the…