Looking Back on 2011: Six Feel-Good Stories

As is the case every year, 2011 had its share of ups and downs in Lexington. With this list, we're recalling some of our favorite feel-good stories from the past year. Let us know what you think and share your own in the comments section below.

Carnival Opens Early for Good Cause [VIDEO] Each year, before the public pours through its gates the Lexington Lions Club opens its annual Fourth of July Carnival to a couple hundred special guests – children and young adults from the Perkins School, the Carroll Center for the Blind and the Cotting School, along with their family members. Patch tagged along this year and captured the 55th grand opening on video. An Electric Announcement [VIDEO] The Commonwealth’s clean energy revolution took hold of Lexington’s Battle Green Friday, July 22 as energy conscious officials mustered to announce the award of 105 electric vehicle charging stations to 25 Massachusetts cities and towns. Lexington landed three electric-vehicle charging stations in …

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Looking Back on 2011: Fab Five Favorite Photos of the Year

Click through some of our favorite scenes from 2011, plus a bonus video.

There is simply no way to include all of the outstanding images captured and posted on Lexington Patch in 2011. From holidays to storms to feel-good features that warm the heart, there has no shortage of powerful photography from local photographers, freelancers and you, our readers.  So, in deciding our five favorite photos from 2011, we tried to going to stick to that old adage that a picture's worth 1,000 words and selected images that themselves tell the story. There are actually six pics, but we like to think about the second and third as one before-and-after image. So here they are, in chronological order. 1. Re-Enactors, the Next Generation: In Lexington, it's pretty much a given (or an understatement) that Patriots Day is a kind of…

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Five Things You Need to Know Today: Sept. 1

Meetings, classroom execution and an award-winning director today in Lexington.

1. Beth Murphy, director of the award-winning documentary, "Beyond Belief," will be at Cary Memorial Library tonight at 7 p.m. to discuss the making of her film, which follows the journey of Patti Quigley and Susan Retik, widows who lost their husbands in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2011 and dedicated their lives to Afghan women widowed by terrorism. 2. Pretty busy public meeting lineupposted for today. The Historic District Commission is meeting at 7 p.m., while the Commission on Disability meets at 5:45 p.m. and and Education Collabortive for Greater Boston meets at 10 a.m. in Waltham. 3. The Lexington Special Education Parent Advisory Council tonight will present a program to discuss the development of executive function …

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