Go west, gun rights advocates. That's the message from Gun Rights Across America: Massachusetts after Lexington's Board of Selectmen voted Tuesday night to suspend the group's permit to rally on the Battle Green this Friday and issue a two-week moratorium on public assemblies on the green and at Tower Park. According to the event's page on Facebook, the Muster On The Battle Green, originally scheduled to be held from 12 to 4 p.m. on April 19 in Lexington, is being relocated to West Springfield "due to a permit revocation by the Lexington BoS." The message also provides this link to where the …

According to communications from Lexington officials, a section of Waltham Street will be shut down beginning at 7 a.m. today, April 16 for water service replacement work expected to take about seven work days. The section slated for closure is the stretch from the intersection of Waltham Street and Marrett Road to Waltham's intersection with Worthen Road. The closures will be in effect from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., but pedestrians and abutting residents will have access throughout, the town communications said. Traffic will be detoured onto Marrett Road, Kendall Road and Worthen Road, and details …

  Re-enactments, parades and midnight rides will lead to road closures and traffic delays around Lexington next Saturday, Sunday and Monday as the town celebrates Patriots’ Day weekend and remembers what started here. A full schedule of traffic management plans, provided by the town, is posted to your right as a PDF. From the notice: “No Parking” signage is posted and/or parking meters bagged in most of the above areas the day of each event or, the night before if it is held at an early hour. Look for signage along the entire side of the roadway you are thinking of parking in case temporary …

  This year, 2013, certainly has potential to turn into The Year of Elections. Already behind us are the local, Lexington’s town elections, which came in went with a meager voter turnout. The next two are guaranteed: A special state primary and special state general to fill the U.S. Senate seat that opened with John Kerry’s appointment as Secretary of State and is being kept warm by the governor’s appointee, interim US Sen. Mo Cowan. Depending on who wins those, Lexington could have another special (or, potentially, specials) on its hands, as Congressman Ed Markey, who represents the town in …

A common criticism from those opposed to decriminalization of marijuana in Massachusetts is that the law, passed comfortably as a ballot initiative in 2008, is toothless. Which is to say, there's not a lot that law enforcement can do to make the doobs abide. Under Mass General Law chapter 94c, section 32L, possession of one ounce of marijuana is decriminalized and punishable only as a civil offense. For offenders age 18 and older, that means a $100 fine and turning over their stash. And for those under 18, the penalty also includes completion of a drug awareness program and parental …

  If opening night was special, then the second session of annual Town Meeting might just be thoroughly modern. Articles on the agenda for tonight deal with a climate change resolution, solar energy purchasing, updating a zoning article and, if they get to it, electronic voting. That’s according to Town Moderator Deb Brown, who set the second session’s agenda before adjourning the opening meeting on Monday. Tonight's meeting, set to begin at 7:30 p.m. at Cary Hall, will open with the report from Town Manager Carl Valente, per Brown's plan. Climate change and energy are next up on the agenda, …

Drivers who are considering a switch to electric vehicles or current vehicle owners looking for a place nearby to charge their rides have a couple of places to find their outlet. In Lexington, the closest charging stations are right here in town -- the year-old stations in the lot at 4 Grant St. -- and beyond that there are a few in Waltham and Cambridge, according to crowd-sourced website carstations.com. Carstations allows users to upload new car charging locations to a Google map and (when applicable) provides details on the station. According to the site's About section, "this website is …

As February vacation winds down and we head into a weekend wherein forecasts are calling for up to another foot of snow, it seems like an appropriate time to peek ahead at when the 2012-2013 school year might end.    According to the Lexington Public Schools most recent calendar, published last Wednesday, Feb. 13, the tentative final day of school will be Friday, June 21. Planned makeup days, if needed, will be June 24, 25 and 26. And the Lexington High graduation, meanwhile, is scheduled for Sunday, June 9. Of course, this is all subject to change. And possible snow showers are in the …

Wondering about annual Town Meeting? Because, yes, it is that time of year again: Lexington’s annual Town Meeting is set to begin Monday, March 18. And, per the usual, Town Meeting will be held at the Cary Memorial Building. The opening date is March 18, but Town Meeting will not convene during Passover (March 25) or the school vacation week from April 15 to April 19. There are 34 articles on the warrant, but one of the most eye-catching items – the proposed purchase of Scottish Rite property on Marrett Road – will be taken up in the special Town Meeting immediately preceding the annual. …

The trend-chasing young womens clothing store 344 shuttered its Lexington Center location last week, fading away after a month-long liquidation sale. As the “alternative apparel” chain store prepared to leave town, an independent boutique, Petra Lexington, has been busy preparing to set up shop a little ways down the street. Over the past couple of weeks, a few Patch readers have wondered whether the incoming business would fill the niche vacated by the outgoing store. The answer, in short: Not so much. Three Forty Four, aka 344, targeted younger women with styles that skewed toward the …