Winter clothing drive The First Parish in Lincoln is collecting winter clothing through Tuesday, Dec. 7 to benefit Solutions at Work, which serves people facing poverty an homelessness in Cambridge and Dorchester. Items needed include pants, sweatshirts, sweatpants, shirts, sweaters, jackets, parkas, overcoats, underwear, thermal underwear, socks, sneakers, boots, hats, mittens, scarves, etc. — all sizes,…
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Check out the new issue of the Lincoln Chipmunk!
The latest issue of the Lincoln Chipmunk, the quarterly arts e-zine companion to the Squirrel, has just been published. See what your friends and neighbors have created, and start working on your own submissions — the next deadline is February 19, 2022. Questions? Call editor Alice Waugh at 617-710-5542 or email lincolnsquirelnews@gmail.com. chipmunk.lincolnsquirrel.com…
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$10 at Donelan’s helps provide a family meal With Thanksgiving just around the corner, Donelan’s is running a promotion to give food to the Lincoln Food Pantry. At the checkout counter you can donate $10 that will provide the Lincoln Food Pantry with boxes of the following items to feed our many families: Peanut butter,…
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Covid-19 vaccination clinic for kids There are still spots available at the Covid-19 vaccination clinic for kids aged 5-11 on Saturday, Nov. 20 from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. in the Reed gym. Click here to register for an appointment (select “Nov. 20” only). The clinic will be well staffed to ensure the process goes…
Lincolnite plies her art in music, film, and now a book
By Maureen Belt Composer, humanitarian, and children’s author Ruth Mendelson has come to believe that when something unfortunate happens to you, it’s not a bad thing — it’s just the universe’s way of getting you on the right track. For example, as a bass guitar student at Berklee College of Music in the 1980s, she…
New book probes the past and present at Mt. Misery
How did Mount Misery get its name? Who built the 350-year-old sawmill? What forces shaped this strange, eventful, terrain? These are some of the questions answered in Imagining the Past at Mount Misery, a new booklet by Lincoln resident Ron McAdow. The book offers a trail guide to the Mount Misery conservation land with color…
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See “The Addams Family!” at L-S Tickets are now on sale for the LSB Players’ production of “The Addams Family!” — a hilarious and irreverent musical about a loving yet macabre family set in their ghoulish ways, as they face the prospect of their daughter/sister, Wednesday, marrying someone far too normal for their taste. Performances are in…
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Donate to Marc Day Scholarship Fund Friends and family of the late Marc Day invite donations to a scholarship fund established in the name of Marc, a Lincoln resident and graduate of Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School who died on September 8. Organizers are hoping to raise $25,000 to help one college-bound L-S track runner each…
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Series of author talks coming up The Lincoln Public Library will host several virtual programs with book authors in coming weeks: A panel discussion with all five 2021 Agatha Award nominees for best first novel Wednesday, Nov. 3 at 7 p.m. Meet the country’s best new mystery writers in this all-star panel discussion featuring all…
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Talk on Lincoln’s Black residents in the 1700s Last spring, the Lincoln Historical Society began to explore Lincoln’s past as a town that included enslaved people with a talk by Elise Lemire (co-sponsored by the Bemis Free Lecture Series) on “Slavery in Lincoln, Massachusetts: Reckoning with Our Past, Planning for a More Honest and Inclusive…