News, features and photos from Lincoln, Mass.
(Editor’s note: Brown is a member of the Sudbury Board of Selectmen). To the editor: I am writing to support Siobhan Hullinger for a seat on the Lincoln-Sudbury Regional District School School Committee in this year’s election. Siobhan has a long record of volunteering for community service and a notable record of service at the…
To the editor: I write to encourage my fellow Lincoln voters to get to the polls on Monday, March 26 and to cast their votes for Carole Kasper of Lincoln and Ellen Joachim of Sudbury for the two open seats on the L-S School Committee. Carole is well known to many in town, having served…
Neighbors of the proposed Oriole Landing mixed-income housing development offered impassioned protests over the plan at a March 6 Planning Board public hearing that continues on Tuesday, March 20 at 7 p.m. in Town Hall. If approved, the project would guarantee that Lincoln will have well more than the minimum 10 percent affordable housing units…
To the editor: I am writing to strongly urge all of you to vote in the election on Monday, March 26. I am enthusiastically in support of Carole Kasper, whose extraordinary qualifications and competence to serve I will leave others to describe. The issue I would like to emphasize is the importance to Lincoln and…
School/community workshops, Planning Board meeting postponed Due to the impending snowstorm, the School Building Committee (SBC) and the Community Center Committee (CCPPDC) joint workshops scheduled for 8 a.m. and 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 13 are cancelled and will be rescheduled. The continuation of the Planning Board’s Oriole Landing public hearing has also been rescheduled from March 13 to Tuesday, March 20…
To the editor: I confidently endorse Siobhan Hullinger as the write-in candidate opening for the Lincoln-Sudbury Regional District School Committee in the upcoming election on Monday, March 26. Ms. Hullinger is a long-time Sudbury resident who is well respected in the community. I have most admired Mrs. Hullinger’s selfless volunteer work having served alongside her…
On Wednesday, March 14, students at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School and at Brooks Middle School plan to join in the national school walkout to protest school gun violence. They will leave school for 17 minutes—one minute for every life lost in the recent Florida school shooting. Church sessions First Parish in Lincoln’s Youth Programs Committee…
School Building Committee meeting rescheduled for March 12 Last week’s School Building Committee meeting that was cancelled due to weather has been rescheduled for Monday, March 12 at 7 p.m. in the Hartwell multipurpose room. The main focus of the meeting is to learn about the sustainability analysis performed by Bill Maclay Architects. Maclay will be on hand…
The storm wasn’t particularly remarkable for the number of inches of snow, but that snow was very heavy and wet—and plentiful enough to cause major damage in Lincoln and other towns by bringing down many trees and heavy limbs onto power lines and homes. Much of the snow has since dripped off the trees and…
To the editor: I write in support of Carole Kasper, candidate for the Lincoln-Sudbury Regional District School Committee. Her background and skills reflect those characteristics of a good committee member: the conviction that public education is important, commitment to public involvement, decisiveness, belief in the democratic process, willingness to devote time and energy, acceptance of…