News, features and photos from Lincoln, Mass.
A February 1 article headlined “Officials offer school recommendations, borrowing estimates” incorrectly referenced another upcoming multiboard meeting in February. The next such meeting will be on March 8 at 7 p.m. in the Brooks gym. The original story has been corrected. …
Saying “we believe it’s time to act on our own,” School Committee Chair Jennifer Glass outlined next steps for a town-funded school project at a multi-board meeting earlier this week. Glass told the Board of Selectmen last month that her group recommended not applying again for state funding, but start the planning process for a…
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…
LSSC hosts Lincoln presentation on High Tech High L-S faculty and staff who traveled out to High Tech High in California to delve a bit more deeply into maker spaces, innovation hubs and social entrepreneurship (areas being explored for future classes and extracurricular at L-S) will give a presentation at the Lincoln-Sudbury Regional School Committee’s meeting…
Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School is looking for community members to talk to students this spring about their career paths and the educational and professional requirements for their respective fields. The 2016-17 speaker series began in November and has hosted speakers who work in engineering, mental health, banking, finance, alternative medicine, entrepreneurship and media/TV/film. The sessions occur in…
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….
Calling all public servants Looking for a rewarding if occasionally vexing way to feel more connected? Willing to undertake new challenges? Unafraid to speak up? Then run for local office! The annual Town Election will take place on Monday, March 27. Nomination papers are available at the Town Clerk’s Office now, and must be returned…
Accident victim returns home Julie Payne Britton, who was seriously injured in an October 18 car accident on Route 117 in Lincoln, finally returned to her home in Greenfield, Mass., late last month after weeks of surgery and rehabilitation, according to this article in the Greenfield Recorder. Britton was on her way home from her employer’s headquarters…
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The state agency overseeing school project funding informed Lincoln today that the town would not be invited into the funding pipeline for a school project in 2017. This third rejection means residents must once again decide whether to wait and reapply next year, or proceed with an entirely town-funded school project. Lincoln submitted was among…