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Lincoln holding special Town Meeting to settle disputed selectboard expansion

Posted on April 15, 2013 |
By Xian Chiang-Waren



Update: This article has been amended to reflect that voting on May 14 will take place through Australian ballot voting, not by voice vote, as stated in an earlier version of this article. The Independent regrets the error.

LINCOLN — It’s past the time of year that most Addison County residents keep their ears peeled for important Town Meeting Day news, but Lincoln residents will return to Burnham Hall in the coming weeks for another round of discussion, debate and voting on municipal matters.

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Dance party will benefit family that experienced fire

Posted on February 11, 2013 |
By Addison Independent



LINCOLN — Burnham Hall in Lincoln will host “The Schlein Family Highfalutin Hootenanny” on Saturday, Feb. 23, with doors opening at 6:30 p.m. Two of the area’s most danceable bands, the Hokum Brothers and BandAnna, will donate their talents for a fabulous dance party. All proceeds from the hootenanny will go to the Schlein family, who recently lost their New Haven home in a fire.

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From her Lincoln studio an artist paints Vermont's landscape

Posted on December 13, 2012 |
By Mark Bushnell



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The light on this cloudy November day is silver and stark, giving the world a washed-out look. Just the sort of day Andrew Wyeth would have loved to paint. But then, as I drive south on a dirt road in Lincoln, the light shifts. Sunlight spills through a gap in the clouds and the world transforms from bleak black-and-white to rich color.

Where before I’d been looking at frost-killed fields and the stubs of dead cornstalks, I’m now noticing the orangey light that illuminates the trees lining the road and brings out the greens still in the grass.

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State police charge three with string of burglaries

Posted on November 8, 2012 |
By Addison Independent



MONKTON — Vermont State Police on Wednesday evening announced the arrests of three people in connection with a string of recent home and business burglaries spanning from Salisbury to Burlington.

Among those arrested was Chad Cook, 25, of Monkton, whom police cited for forced residential burglary, possession of stolen property and petit larceny. He was held on $25,000 bail at the Chittenden County Correctional Center.

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Solar project powers up for Lincoln elementary school

Posted on November 5, 2012 |
By Xian Chiang-Waren



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LINCOLN — The number of Five Town Area elementary schools that can boast of being powered by solar energy has just doubled — to two.

Twelve solar trackers on Kim Smith’s property in Lincoln began generating 50 kilowatt hours of electricity last week. The solar panels will generate close to 100 percent of the electricity that the recently renovated Lincoln Community School needs.

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Lincoln Community School wraps up $2 million makeover

Posted on October 15, 2012 |
By Xian Chiang-Waren



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LINCOLN — Tory Riley cannot stop smiling.

“I love this,” the principal of the Lincoln Community School said last week during a tour of the school. “I flip a switch, and the heating works!”

After six years of planning and $2 million in budgeted renovations, Lincoln Community School has invited the community to come through its newly finished doors this Thursday to celebrate the completion of its historic facility during is annual open house.

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Video: Lincoln school tackles flooded garden

Posted on September 12, 2011 |
By Andrew Stein



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When heavy floodwaters came tearing through the mountain village of Lincoln on Sunday, Aug. 28, a group of 20 community members rescued their local elementary school garden — one of Lincoln Community School's central pillars.

Together they harvested the garden, moved the school's shed and salvaged what they could. The following week, a team of second, fifth and sixth-graders began to rebuild the beds and reflect on the recent flooding.

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