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Residents are invited to learn about gun safety and a pending Lincoln Town Meeting resolution advocating a national gun safety law on Saturday, Jan. 23 starting with a reception at 9:30 a.m. in Bemis Hall. Lincoln Police Chief Kevin Kennedy and Sgt. Paul Westlund will speak at 10 a.m. about gun law differences in neighboring states and how…
A “solar farm” is nearing completion at Far Meadow on property owned by Lincoln Woods, and if the good weather holds, it should be producing non-polluting electricity by the end of February. Four hundred solar panels have been installed and the electrical connections are currently being made. You can see the installation by walking out the…
Editor’s note: this letter is in response to a letter published on January 12.
To the editor:
Michael Coppock’s questions and complaints about the Leaf Blower Study Group’s activities answer themselves, by and large. He notes the cost of the flyers mentioned in his letter (January 12, 2016) came from the Selectmen’s printing budget. Simply put, this expenditure, authorized by elected officials and/or persons appointed by them, reflected the interest of the town’s governing bodies in a subject that addresses both quality of life and health issues affecting Lincoln residents. The extent to which leaf-blower emissions and noise are seen as a public health problem is reflected by the existence of hundreds of local laws, ordinances and regulations regarding use of these machines in counties, cities, towns, and villages across the land and around the world. To be sure, these measures have proved difficult to enforce, for a number of reasons—but that does not diminish the public’s interest or the nature of the problem or the Board of Health’s responsibility to address it.
The Lincoln Squirrel story about Mary’s Way incorrectly described where the new road is located. It runs along the south side of Route 2 from Crosby’s Corner to Deerhaven Road, not Brooks Road to Rockwood Lane. The accompanying map also reversed the labels for Horses Crossing and Emerson Road. The article and map have been updated…
Editor’s note: This article and map were updated on January 18, 2016 to reflect corrections. By Alice Waugh The fourth and last of the new roads adjacent to Route 2 has been officially named, but not everyone is happy with the choice. Mary’s Way, formerly known as Service Road 4, is on south side of Route 2…
Discuss death at the Death Café on January 31 St. Anne’s in-the-Fields is hosting a Death Café on Sunday, Jan. 31 (rescheduled from October 2015) from 2:30-4:30 p.m. Death Café is an international movement started in Europe dedicated to taking death out of the closet and discussing it publicly. At a Death Café, people come together to eat…
Editor’s note: Antia is Lincoln’s representative on the Minuteman School Committee.
To the editor:
On February 23, Lincoln will be holding a Special Town Meeting and we will be asked to take two votes. We will be asked to vote on amendments to the Minuteman High School district regional agreement, and we will also be asked to vote on whether we want to remain in the district. This is the second in a series of letters from me about Minuteman, the first of which was published on January 4.
Editor’s note: See the Lincoln Squirrel posts from Dec. 23, 2015 and Jan. 4, 2016 for more information about the Minuteman regional agreement and the Vocational Education Options Working Group. To the editor: The Board of Selectmen urges the town to follow the work of its recently formed Vocational Education Options Working Group (VEOWG). The VEOWG…
William Inge movies to be shown The Lincoln Library Film Society presents a William Inge retrospective with screenings on Sunday afternoons at 2 p.m. in the library’s Tarbell Room. Refreshments will be served. Dates and titles are as follows: January 24: Picnic February 7: Bus Stop February 28: Come Back, Little Sheba March 13: Splendor in…
Lincoln’s Winter Carnival from January 28-31, 2016 features two original performances, snowshoe outings, skating, a celebration of Lincoln authors, and the traditional coffee house and snow sculpture contest.