News, features and photos from Lincoln, Mass.
To the editor: Spirits were high last Saturday as some 4,000 Democrats gathered at the Massachusetts Democratic Convention in Springfield. Representing Lincoln were six delegates, four alternates, and one youth delegate, an activist senior from Lincoln-Sudbury High School. Shannon Liss-Riordan and Steve Pemberton (candidates for U.S. Rep. Ed Markey’s seat in the primary) emphasized women’s…
Letter to the editor To the editor: The Recycling Committee would like to thank the volunteers at the transfer station. They are very much appreciated — just ask the transfer station attendants! The volunteers help keep the area neat and clean. They throw out many of the unused items that get deposited in the swap…
To the editor: We are writing to invite you to join Lincoln’s Annual Fourth of July parade. This year, our quintessential small-town parade will be led by Parade Marshal Becky Eston, who’s retiring as a Lincoln School teacher and community treasure for the past 39 years. This is our chance to honor her dedication, compassion…
To the editor: We live in a privileged, isolated, elite bubble in Lincoln. Most are comfortable, secure and safe. Some are not comfortable and some do not feel secure or safe, even in Lincoln. I worry about this bubble and it has bothered me for a long time. Lincoln does not have a newspaper (or…
To the editor: Like many in town, I really hate the fall and spring “cleanup” seasons when squads of lawn care workers descend upon the lawns of Lincoln with their high-powered leaf blowers to afflict us with an awful racket and clouds of debris and dust. It seems like it takes forever for them to…
To the editor: My name is Valerie Fox, interim Town Clerk in Lincoln, and I am honored to be on the ballot for a three-year term as Lincoln’s Town Clerk. I will follow esteemed predecessors Susan Brooks, who served as Lincoln’s Town Clerk for 13 years and retired last July, and Nancy Zuelke, who ably…
To the editor: On Saturday, March 23, we will gather for our annual Town Meeting. Town Meeting matters. It is the legislative body for our town. It is in this legislative body where discussion, debate and ultimately decisions (votes) take place that will govern our town for the coming year. As in other legislative bodies,…
(Editor’s note: this letter was sent by Byrnes Landscaping to their customers in Lincoln, and the Byrneses asked that it also be published as a letter to the editor.) To the editor: At the upcoming Lincoln Town Meeting, there is a proposed bylaw to limit/ban the use of gas-powered leaf blowers. We have compiled some…
To the editor: It is an unfortunate reality that recycling is becoming harder to do, more expensive, and less effective. Plastic recycling for the most part has always been quite unsuccessful. Our oceans, rivers, food, and even our bodies are filling with plastics even though most of us have been optimistically washing and sorting our…
To the editor: The leaf blower bylaw being proposed at Town Meeting by the Conservation Commission represents the culmination of six years of work involving research, education, events, and public forums. Its final form incorporates input from commercial landscapers and residents gathered during public meetings. It allows the use of gas-powered equipment in the fall…