Finance Committee chair Andy Payne gathered the following information about current property tax bills. He adds this disclaimer: “The state Department of Revenue is not providing the ‘average single-family tax bill’ for towns with senior exemption programs, notably Sudbury and Concord. The values for those towns were imputed from the tax rate.” Click any image…
My Turn: Reelect Lynn DeLisi and Rick Rundell to Planning Board
By Ken Bassett and Mary Helen Lorenz This delayed Town Meeting [period] includes what I consider two important elections for seats on the Planning Board: a seat held by Lynn DeLisi and one by Rick Rundell. Both Lynn and Rick are running for reelection. Mary Helen and I support their reelection based in no small…
My Turn: Many thanks for food assistance over the summer
By the Lincoln School Committee and Becky McFall The Lincoln School Committee and Administration would like to thank the First Parish of Lincoln and the METCO Coordinating Council (MCC) for helping to bridge the gap of meal assistance over the summer months for Lincoln, Boston, and Hanscom families. Families receiving meal assistance since the school…
My Turn: Reelect Rundell and DeLisi to Planning Board
By Joe Robbat This year’s election is important. We need to reelect Rick Rundell and Lynn DeLisi to the Planning Board because, like their current board colleagues, they are committed to town planning — the board’s most important contribution to the town, in my view. Thoughtful, prescient land use recommendations to town meetings from Planning…
My Turn: (Re)-elect Domnitz to the Planning Board
By Sara Mattes I first met Bob Domnitz when I was the Board of Selectmen’s liaison to the Planning Board. I have watched Bob, over his previous tenure, navigate tough issues, come up with innovative solutions, engage with citizens with respect, and sometimes be on the receiving end of blasting critique. All the while, he…
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Chat with Lincoln’s public health nurse Do you have questions about Covid-19 prevention, transmission, symptoms, or treatment? Are there other concerns you have about seasonal health issues such as ticks and Lyme disease or EEE? Do you have general health questions? Join Tricia McGean, Lincoln’s Public Health Nurse, on Wednesday, June 10 at 10 a.m….
My Turn: Many are disenfranchised at Town Meeting
By Carol DiGianni Since the pandemic is still clearly a hazard for those of us who are seniors, or otherwise incapacitated, it seems like an oversight not to have options for some form of remote voting on Town Meeting warrant articles. There is remote voting in the upcoming election — why not for those of…
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Hanscom students compete for national history award
Seven students at Hanscom Middle School will represent Massachusetts in this year’s National History Day, a rigorous academic contest that engages 500,000 middle and high school students in historical research. The Hanscom student projects — all based on this year’s “Breaking Barriers” theme — include exhibits, research papers, and documentary films. The projects were selected…
My Turn: BLM movement must extend to prison reform
By Laura Berland Nowhere are racial disparities more starkly on display than in our nation’s prison system. African-Americans are incarcerated in state prisons across the country at more than five times the rate of whites, and at least ten times the rate in five states. If you think Massachusetts is an exception to this terrible…