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To the Editor: The Planning Board thanks the town for approving three important zoning amendments on this year’s Town Meeting warrant: Article 32 relaxes the limits on building height in the Lincoln Station area. The new limits are 36’ and 2 ½ stories, identical to the existing limits on residential construction in the R1 residential…
By Alice Waugh
Despite the uncertainty surrounding the funding and timeline for school repairs, the town will move ahead with investigating specific sites and costs for a community center as well as the cost or renovating Bemis Hall to help Council on Aging in the more immediate future.
In unofficial results from the March 31 town election, incumbent Selectman Peter Braun defeated challenger Vincent Cannistraro by a vote of 487-382, or 56 to 46 percent. Braun’s margin of victory was about the same in both precincts. Precinct 1, which includes the southern and western portion of Lincoln, went to Braun by 56 to…
Care Dimensions has for a postponement of the next Zoning Board of Appeals meeting on its Winter Street hospice proposal while it amends its submission. The company is now scheduled to appear before the ZBA on May 1. The ZBA was scheduled to meet on April 3 to to continue the hearing that began on…
The rainy early-spring nights last weekend this week brought out the annual migration of spotted salamanders and wood frogs from the uplands across the woods and fields (and roads) to vernal pools to breed. As in past years, the amphibians chose the night after Lincoln’s Annual Town Meeting to make their move, noted Tom Gumbart,…
Jet Aviation meeting on Wednesday The Conservation Commission expects to vote on the Jet Aviation expansion plans at Hanscom Civil Airport at its meeting on Wednesday, April 2 at 7:45 p.m. in the Donaldson Room at the Lincoln Town Offices. This is a continuation of the hearing and discussion on February 19 and March 12. Clark, Barrett to…
The Town of Lincoln Recycling Committee is looking for a Transfer Station Volunteer Coordinator. This individual would be responsible for recruiting volunteers to work at the transfer station, maintain a volunteer schedule, send out weekly reminders and act as the point person for volunteers. The ideal candidate would have strong organizational, spreadsheet and customer service…
The Lincoln Democratic Town Committee (DTC) will host a forum with candidates for lieutenant governor on April 5 in Bemis Hall and a forum for attorney general and state treasurer on May 10. All five lieutenant governor candidates have indicated they will attend: Stephen Kerrigan, Mike Lake, Jonathan Edwards, Leland Cheung, and James Arena-DeRosa.
Bruce Thomas hasn’t visited Lincoln in decades, but he always remembered his grandfather’s hometown with affection—and he wrote a column about it for his local newspaper. Thomas’ column, which appeared in February on the website of the Tribune Chronicle in Warren Ohio, reminisces about summer visits in the 1930s to the Lorreys, his grandparents and aunt…