The familiar flower pot marking the Five Corners intersection in front of the library was hit by a car on March 23 and is temporarily grounded. Chief of Police Kevin Kennedy said the accident happened when a car driving south on Bedford Road tried to turn left on Trapelo Road. The car sustained more than…
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Lincoln GearTicks team advances to world championship
By Kevin Ji The Lincoln-based GearTicks robotics team did well at a state championship in Oxford, Penn., earlier this month and advanced to the world championship in Detroit in April. The GearTicks take part in a competition called the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) for middle and high school students, where they design, build, and program…
Voters approve ban on cannabis businesses in Lincoln
Lincoln voters have affirmed a ban on cannabis retail businesses in Lincoln that was first passed at a Special Town Meeting in October 2018. Unofficial results of 2019 town election Lincoln residents voted in favor of legalizing sales of recreational marijuana in Massachusetts in a statewide vote in 2016. Because of that result, state law…
Letter to the editor: amend or defeat leaf blower measure
Here’s why we should all vote “no” on this proposed bylaw, along with a suggested amendment that would make it far less of an overreach. The proposed bylaw bans use by individual homeowners of their own gas-powered leaf blowers for seven months of the year. This may make a lot of sense to people who…
Water Dept. needs to borrow more than $1 million
New state requirements and deferred maintenance mean that the Lincoln Water Department is asking to borrow just over $1 million. Of the $1.01 million to be requested via bonding at the March 23 Annual Town Meeting, $817,000 is earmarked for regulatory compliance items required by the state Department of Environmental Protection’s 2018 Sanitary Survey of…
Letter to the editor: vote Fox for Town Clerk
To the editor: I write, as many of your readers may know, as a great fan of small town democracy and the opportunity presented at the March 25 Town Election to participate in affirming (or not) the town’s elected leadership for the coming year(s). But I write this time as a great fan of a…
Correction
Due to a typographical error, an incorrect phone number for OARS was given in the March 12 edition of News Acorns. The correct number to call for more information about the Wild & Scenic Film Festival on March 27 is 978-369-3956….
Correction
The February 27 story headlined “Leaf blower forum on Thursday” inaccurately said that the First Parish in Lincoln had endorsed a proposed bylaw placing limits on leaf blower use. The Leaf Blower Study Committee on Thursday clarified that, contrary to their statement at a February 25 Board of Selectman’s meeting, the church as a whole…
FinCom releases tax hike figures for school project
Once all the borrowing for the school project is done, Lincoln property owners will see a tax increase of 14.5% compared to fiscal 2019—significantly less than the 20% that some had feared. As announced on February 26, winning bidder Citibank offered an interest rate of 3.379% on the $80 million bond. The Finance Committee had…
Leaf blower forum on Thursday
Residents can make their feelings known about the proposed leaf blower bylaw ahead of Town Meeting at a public forum on Thursday, Feb. 28 at 7 p.m. in the Town Office Building. The Leaf Blower Study Committee (a subcommittee of the Conservation Commission) wants to limit the use of gas-powered leaf blowers because research has…