News, features and photos from Lincoln, Mass.
Many families in Lincoln are feeling the pinch of the ongoing government shutdown, but town-wide efforts are underway to try to help those who are being affected. The efforts arose as a result of a rapidly organized community meeting on January 14. At the meeting were representatives of the Lincoln Public Schools, the Council on…
The coffee with artist Don Alden that was listed in the December 27 Council on Aging activities in January has been rescheduled from January 22 to January 15. A December 20 story headlined “New Minuteman High School on track for fall 2019 opening” incorrectly stated that Belmont was part of the Minuteman High School district….
Construction on Minuteman High School in Lincoln is progressing smoothly and the new building will open its doors to students in September 2019. The new building broke ground in June 2017 after years of effort, as Minuteman had to secure Town Meeting approvals from every town in the Minuteman school district before the project could…
By next fall, Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School will have a new satellite location for students with social and emotional disabilities. The building at 420 Lincoln Rd., a stone’s throw from the high school, was the home of the White House Preschool until it closed in 2010. It needs to be renovated to meet current building…
The $93.9 million school project won the required two-thirds majority vote with ease at a December 1 Special Town Meeting, with the highest-ever attendance for such an event and a civil discussion of the issues. In the end, the vote wasn’t as close as some had expected—89 percent to 11 percent—and the tone of the…
Years of study and planning—along with weeks and months of vigorous debate and opinions in the form of LincolnTalk posts, roadside signs, mailings, and websites—will culminate in votes on funding the Lincoln School project this Saturday, Dec. 1 and Monday, Dec. 3. Roadside campaign signs saying “Vote Yes: Our Town, Our School, Our Kids” have…
To the editor: As engaged community members, we have attended and participated in many of the School Building Committee meetings, town surveys, and open workshops held over the past two years in Lincoln. We invested our time in this process because we understood that a new school is likely the most significant capital project that…
To the editor: We should all be paying careful attention when we’re being asked to vote for a school that will increase our property tax bills by nearly 20 percent. But paying careful attention means thinking through all the financial consequences, not just the most immediate impacts on our wallets. I’m certainly concerned about my…
To the editor: Our small town has long worked to find agreement on how to best support and configure our K-8 school. Last spring, we selected the L3 option, which sustained the central campus and set a budget of $93.9 million. Since then, wonderful, balanced work has brought to reality a model school and a…
To the editor: I have been delighted over the last couple of years as Lincoln has reached a tipping point on clean energy. We are working toward the elimination of CO2 emissions for our town buildings. We are working on Community Choice Aggregation to increase the renewably generated supply of our electricity throughout the town….