News, features and photos from Lincoln, Mass.
On Wednesday, March 14, students at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School and at Brooks Middle School plan to join in the national school walkout to protest school gun violence. They will leave school for 17 minutes—one minute for every life lost in the recent Florida school shooting. Church sessions First Parish in Lincoln’s Youth Programs Committee…
The storm wasn’t particularly remarkable for the number of inches of snow, but that snow was very heavy and wet—and plentiful enough to cause major damage in Lincoln and other towns by bringing down many trees and heavy limbs onto power lines and homes. Much of the snow has since dripped off the trees and…
To the editor: I write in support of Carole Kasper, candidate for the Lincoln-Sudbury Regional District School Committee. Her background and skills reflect those characteristics of a good committee member: the conviction that public education is important, commitment to public involvement, decisiveness, belief in the democratic process, willingness to devote time and energy, acceptance of…
(Editor’s note: Hogue is one of three candidates running for the open seat on the Parks and Recreation Committee. The others are Rey Romero and Sarah Chester.) To the editor: My name is Adam Hogue and I am writing to announce my candidacy for Lincoln Parks and Recreation (Parks & Rec) Committee. I look forward…
Several roads in town were closed due to falling trees or utility poles from Friday’s nor’easter, but as of Sunday evening, all roads had reopened except for Hilliard Road. Lincoln Road residents Wendy and Lem Kusik had a close call as an 80-foot spruce crashed down right next to their house, tearing out utility lines….
A total of 36 warrant articles (13 of which will be considered as a group on the consent calendar) will be presented to residents for votes at the Annual Town Meeting on Saturday, March 24. The full warrant is online here. Articles include: Customary financial articles The town budget (including the Lincoln School and Lincoln-Sudbury High…
The Board of Selectmen voted 2-1 to endorse a plastic water bottle measure that will be up for a Town Meeting vote on March 24. They also voted unanimously to remove a citizens’ petition seeking reimbursement for legal costs incurred by a group of residents fighting the McLean Hospital proposal on Bypass Road. In November…
Write-in candidate to join LSSC info sessions Ellen Joachim of Sudbury will join Lincoln resident Carole Kasper at three previously announced L-S School Committee candidate forums in Lincoln. Kasper is running for the seat being vacated by Nancy Marshall. Joachim is one of three declared write-in candidates from Sudbury for the seat of Sudbury’s Gerald…
A group of Lincoln design professionals wrote a memo to campus planners urging that they consider locating the community center on the current Smith school site rather than on the Hartwell side of campus, but the reaction among community center planners was lukewarm last week. At its February 14 meeting, the Community Center Preliminary Planning…