News, features and photos from Lincoln, Mass.
“Art in the Garden” at Stonegate Stonegate Gardens (339 South Great Road, Lincoln) will have a representative from the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum at its “Art in the Garden” event on Saturday, April 18 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Also featured: stone sculpture by Inspired Stones of Concord, screen prints by Rusty & Ingrid Creative…
By Alice C. Waugh
Parents have until Friday afternoon to fill out an online survey asking their opinions about various aspects of children’s school, and they’ll have another chance to share their views at a public forum on April 29.
A graphic in a March 24 Boston Globe article about property taxes reveals that Lincoln has the third-highest average property tax bill in Massachusetts. The only municipalities with higher average bills (for cities and towns where data was available) were Weston and Sherborn. The top 10 were as follows: Weston $18,059 Sherborn $14,720 Lincoln $14,367 Dover $13,715 Wellesley…
Tonight: talk on Revolutionary battlefield “Discovering Parker’s Revenge Battlefield: April 19, 1775″ is the topic of a talk on Tuesday, April 14 at 7:30 p.m. in Bemis Hall. The speaker will be Dr. Meg Watters of PBS’s “Time Team America” and principal investigator for the ongoing Parker’s Revenge Project at Minute Man National Historical Park. She’ll…
(Editor’s note: This is Antia’s report on a March 25 “Fireside Chat” with Lincoln Police Chief Kevin Kennedy sponsored by the Council on Aging.)
By Sharon Antia
One of the pressing questions we had was in relation to the police log that appears in most every issue of the Lincoln Journal. There is one entry that finds its way into the log quite frequently that none of us understood, and that is “the box.”
Farm and third-graders make syrup for charity Matlock Farm is selling maple syrup they made with the help of Lincoln School third-graders and donating the proceeds to charity. After the children collected sap from trees at the school and did a math/science project on the amount they got. Then Nancy Bergen and Ephraim Flint of Matlock Farm added sap…
The fatal plane crash at Hanscom Field last May happened because the pilots didn’t release the gust lock, a mechanism designed to prevent wind damage to the plane when on the ground and freeezes the plane’s rudder and elevators in place, according to an April 8 Boston Globe article. A National Transportation Safety Board investigation revealed that the Gulfstream IV…
Film series about “odd jobs” Job, profession, vocation, career—what we do or did to “earn our living” is who we were or are or will become. Does it then follow that the “oddest” jobs just might attract the oddest people, who might then provide the most peculiar and engaging stories, true or fictitious? Find out…
Florence Hollingsworth
Silver pieces designed and wrought by Florence Hollingsworth as well as silverware and jewelry owned by her will be auctioned at the Parish House of the First Parish in Lincoln (14 Bedford Road) on Sunday, April 12 beginning at 3 p.m.
Per the instructions of Hollingworth’s will, the silver auction is open only to residents of Lincoln, Mass., residents and to her former students.
Now that spring has sprung, there are lots of nature-related activities coming up in Lincoln.