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The School Building Committee is hosting a series of outreach sessions this week and next to explain and answer questions about the school project. Members are also seeking public input on the appearance of the roof over the central part of the renovated school. The outreach sessions will be on the following dates: Friday, Nov….
Al Schmertzler has retired from the Lincoln School Committee after 26 consecutive years of service to the town, 12 on this committee and a previous 14 on the Finance Committee, among many other contributions of time and intelligence. To fill the vacancy created by this retirement, the Lincoln School Committee invites and encourages any town…
By Prerna Karmacharya The GearTicks, a local robotics team based in Lincoln, demonstrated their vacuum pump and helped the Girl Scouts build prosthetic hands and drive LEGO Segways at the Girl Scout “Geek is Glam” event on October 13 at WPI in Worcester. At the event, the Lincoln GearTicks interacted with girls in grades 4–8,…
L-S officials to hold coffee, listening sessions The Lincoln-Sudbury School Committee will be hosting three office hours/listening sessions this week, including one in Lincoln: Thursday, Oct. 25 from 7–8 p.m. — Goodnow Library (second-floor conference room), Sudbury Friday, Oct. 26 from 9–10 a.m. — deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum Cafe, Lincoln Friday, Oct. 26 from 11 a.m.–noon —…
Town officials provided updates on the two pending school campus construction projects at the State of the Town meeting on October 20, outlining a series of cuts made to bring the school project under budget and a timeline for the community center. The detailed construction cost estimate presented to the School Building Committee in September…
The Birches School is hosting a community open house for the general public on Saturday, Nov. 3 from 1–3 p.m. to see its new home—the renovated Bedford Road property of the late computer executive An Wang and his wife Lorraine. The school bought the Wang property in 2016 in concert with the Rural Land Foundation,…
The School Building Committee plans to finish trimming the school project to get it under budget this week as it also awaits final information about potential savings on things like temporary classrooms and site work. The current estimate for construction is $84.98 million, but the construction portion of the budget approved by residents in June…
What began last year as an eBay auction of donated vintage dolls has turned into a multipronged nonprofit effort that has netted thousands of dollars for METCO and provided summer camp scholarships for 34 kids. Joanne Schmergel’s Cerulean Way home is slowly being taken over by dolls, antiques and other items she’s collecting and selling…
The agenda for the October 20 State of the Town meeting posted in the Squirrel on October 9 was incorrect. Here is the correct agenda for the meting, which will take place in Brooks auditorium from 10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.: Campus building projects (10:30–11 a.m.) South Lincoln planning (11–11:30 a.m.) deCordova bylaws (11:30a.m.–noon) Open forum (12–12:30…
The School Building Committee on Wednesday started the process of changing and removing elements of the school project to meet a voter-mandated budget, making a handful of adjustments from a list provided by SMMA Architects that totaled just over $1.4 million. But the group has more work to do to reach the target total reduction…