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Community Spaces

One of the 5 core principles of the school building project was enhancing the school as a community space. We are in a different phase of Covid, the building is now in use, and the vision for its potential uses is expanding. In the past couple of weeks, families gathered in the Dining Commons for Bingo Night, and the town’s Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, & Anti-Racism Committee (IDEA) used the Learning Commons for a hybrid-format public forum. We’ve started to put together a photo gallery of the building in use – send photos to sbc@lincnet.org if you have a picture you can share of your group using the school. We look forward to hearing about new and creative uses!

During the Lincoln Winter Carnival, students and families enjoy Bingo Night in the Dining Commons.
The town's Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Racism Committee held a hybrid format public forum in the Learning Commons and via Zoom.

Winding Down

At some point this year, we, the SBC Outreach team, will publish a final blog post! We are grateful to the 360+ subscribers to our site, and to many others who have read our posts over the past (almost) 6 years. As we wind down, we are aware that there are many other important topics of conversation in town, and we invite our followers to stay informed about what is going on in Lincoln by signing up for updates from other groups.

Meeting Notes

The SBC met last Wednesday. Click here for the slide presentation.

Honoring our history…

Just recently, the mobile that was commissioned in memory of School Committee member, Leslie Shansky Vagliano, was hung in the Media Center. The original installation of the mobile was approved by the School Committee in 2003, and it was placed in the Lincoln School Library. As part of this school project, the Library was transformed into the Dining Commons, and a new Media Center was built. Our thanks to Ken Bassett and Mary Helen Lorenz for taking care of the mobile for a few years. We are glad to have this piece of community history back in the building.

The agenda for the upcoming January 11th School Building Committee is here. More photos of the mobile in both its new and old locations are here.

The end is in “site!”

The trees are planted and grass is growing! The project punch list is getting smaller, and we can expect to see the photovoltaic panels being installed on the sloped roofs in the next few weeks. Stay tuned – more about the PV system after the December 14th SBC meeting! The November photo gallery is here and the slide deck from the last meeting is here.

How it started…

How it’s going…

Ribbon Cutting Ceremony/Time Capsule Photos

We have lots of photos from the Ribbon Cutting ceremony! Click here to check out the gallery. And click here to watch the SBC slide show.

On behalf of the School Building Committee, we are so grateful to our faculty, students, administrative team, custodians, technology gurus, and the project team for working so hard to get the building ready for the Ribbon Cutting and tours. Thank you Becky McFall, Buck Creel, Rob Ford, and Brandon Kelly for leading the tours and to the students and faculty throughout the building providing additional information. And a big thank you to the students and families of Cantibile for providing such beautiful music during the tours on Saturday. It was great to see so many people in the school on both Friday and Saturday!

Ribbon Cutting!

Thank you to everyone who came to the Ribbon Cutting Ceremony in person or watched it on line. It was great to see so many members of the community and to share this moment with our project team, residents, students, and current and former faculty! Thank you, too, to Rep. Tom Stanley (Lincoln’s current state representative) and Rep. Carmine Gentile (our incoming Precinct 1 state representative) for taking time to attend the event.

Couldn’t see the school today? The school will be open to the public tomorrow morning from 9:00am – 11:00am! No need to RSVP – simply show up and stroll through the building. The time capsules are still set up (see the letter below!) and there will be people on hand to share information.

To see the SBC slide show that was playing during the event, click here.

If you would like to sign our digital guest book, click here and post a note, a photo, etc.

Stay tuned! There will be many more photos to come in our next blog post!

Letting the Grass Grow

The landscaping team is putting the finishing touches on the center field and the grassy areas around the school. In this image you can see new grass along the south end of the building and one of the many newly planted trees. We thank our students and the community for being patient with this part of the process. Someday the ropes will come down and we can all roam freely! Click on the October photo gallery to see more photos.

Highlights from this past Wednesday’s SBC meeting:

  • Lots of grading and seeding all around the campus, including restoration of the center field!
  • The end-of-project “punch list”, which had over 500 items in mid September, now stands at about 175. So many final details to take care of! Thank you to the entire team for getting them done.
  • The slide deck from the meeting is here.
  • The Ribbon Cutting Ceremony is on Friday, October 28th @1:30pm! The entire community is invited! If you’d like to attend the ceremony and/or building tours, please email apearson@lincnet.org. Tours are from 3:00pm – 4:30pm.
  • The Ceremony will be live-streamed at https://www.lincnet.org/ribboncutting.
  • The building will be open to the community on Saturday, October 29th from 9:00am – 11:00am. Doors around the school will be open, no need to RSVP in advance.
  • The contents of the 1994 – 1995 Time Capsules will be on display on both the 28th and the 29th!

More important dates:

  • Monday, November 14th @ 7:00pm: Night 1 of the (virtual) 2022 State of the Town Meeting: Lincoln in 2050
  • Tuesday, November 15th @7:00pm: Night 2 of (virtual) State of the Town Meeting: Lincoln in 2050
  • Wednesday, November 30th @7:30pm: Special Town Meeting
    • Vote to approve funding ($325,000) for the next phase of a Community Center project. Funding would pay for architectural and project management services to develop a preferred design and budget.
    • Meeting is in person in the Lincoln School Auditorium!

Remembering Jim Cunningham

Jim Cunningham behind the camera at a Lincoln School project community forum in 2017.

The School Building Committee joins the Lincoln community in mourning the loss of Jim Cunningham. Jim was a dedicated volunteer who spent countless hours filming the community forums, SBC meetings, town meetings, and special town meetings that were focused on the Lincoln School project. We relied on his presence over many years to help communicate this complex process to the Town, and we deeply appreciated the technical knowledge he brought to bear on renovating the systems in the Auditorium. We are saddened by his passing and will always remember him as an integral part of the project and of Lincoln’s civic life.

SBC meets via Zoom on Wednesday, September 14th, at 7:00pm. The agenda and Zoom link are here, and the September photo gallery is here.

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