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Five Things You Need to Know Today: March 14

Lexington Reads continues, a Patriots' Day preview, meetings and more today in Lexington.

1. Dancing to Mozart's Requiem: Lexington Reads continues its celebration of the "Creative Spirit," the theme for 2012, as Nicole Pierce is a dancer, choreographer, and founder of EgoArt, Inc., a contemporary dance company that merges performance and media art to create provocative dance experiences. In this program, scheduled for 7:30 p.m. tonight at Cary Memorial Library, Pierce will discuss her unique creative process and will show how she was able to translate Mozart’s unfinished classical Requiem into a bold and challenging work featuring movement for eight dancers, 5 wall-sized panels, 24 costumes, and video projections of the four seasons. 2. Today in Public Meetings: According to the town website, public meetings posted for today …

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Super Tuesday: Wang Wins Housing Authority Seat, Romney Romps

In the town's only contested race for elected office, Weidong Wang edged out Dan McCabe to claim a seat on the Lexington Housing Authority. Former Gov. Mitt Romney easily outpaced his competition in the Republican primary.

There was just one contested race for elected office yesterday in Lexington, but it was a close one.  According to unofficial preliminary results released last night by the Town Clerk's Office, Weidong Wang, a political newcomer in town who positioned himself as a voice for Lexington's Asian community, narrowly defeated Dan McCabe to win a five-year term on the Lexington Housing Authority. Just 24 percent of Lexington's 21,520 registered voters turned out for the annual Town Elections, which coincided with Super Tuesday and the Massachusetts presidential primary. Housing Authority was the only contested race for elected office and Wang earned 2,295, edging out McCabe's tally of 2,033. The difference between the two fell well short of the …

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Super Tuesday: Sights and Sounds from the Polls Around Lexington

A car accident, a LHS senior launches a sorta serious last-minute bid for the Board of Selectmen and a few other observations from the polls around Lexington at the outset of Super Tuesday and annual Town Elections.

Updated at 12 p.m. Here are a few quick hits and observations from this morning. -- Though the voters only trickled in at some locations around town in the first few hours after the polls opened, election day started out with a bang. Literally. A head-on collision outside the Estabrook School, the Precinct 7 polling place in Lexington, shut down a portion of Grove Street. However, there were no injuries sustained in the accident and police and fire personnel directed traffic so as to allow residents to carry out their civic duty, an officer on scene said. -- Around 8 a.m. this morning, the publicity team for Jill Stein, the hometown Green Party presidential hopeful, said she would be arriving in Lexington sometime today, but they weren't …

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Week in Review: Feb. 12 to Feb. 18

A look back at the week that was in Lexington.

We started the week with Valentine’s Day on our minds and asked readers to share the object of their affection and what they love about Lexington. At Monday night’s Board of Selectmen’s meeting, the house was too packed to talk about housing on the Busa Farms property, so that important discussion got continued to a date that’s yet to be determined. In other business that evening, the selectmen unanimously supported joining the state’s Group Insurance Commission, a move many called an important decision for the town’s financial future. The electric vehicle charging stations in the town lot behind the NStar building was in use early this week and an official ribbon-cutting ceremony is planned for Monday, Feb. 27. Unfortunately, the town was…

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Town Elections: Candidates Names, Contested Races and Reprecincting's Impact

A few days after the Jan. 17 deadline for Lexington residents to submit nomination papers for elected office, Town Clerk Donna Hooper shared her preliminary listing of candidate names.

Following last Tuesday's deadline for candidates seeking elected office or Town Meeting membership in Lexington's annual town election to submit nomination papers, two precincts are still short for Town Meeting candidates. On Friday, Jan. 20, Town Clerk Donna Hooper provided a preliminary listing of candidate names on the ballot. This list -- which is posted in PDF form over to your right -- shows several contested races, while a few precincts are still searching for folks to become Town Meeting members.  “Precinct 3 and 7 are both one candidate short,” Hooper said in an email. “Those positions would have to be filled by write-in or precinct caucus before town meeting begins.” According to Hooper’s preliminary listing, Precinct 3 needs …

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Follow-Up: Lexpress Pilot Program to Start May 2

With the pilot approved, officials expect seniors to enjoy improve access to resources.

Getting to and from the Senior Center is about to get a lot easier -- and cheaper -- for Lexington seniors living at Countryside, Greeley or Vynebrook villages, thanks to a Lexpress pilot program the Board of Selectmen approved April 25. Starting May 2, for just 25 cents -- one-third of Lexpress's regular senior fare of 75 cents -- residents of the Housing Authority villages can catch a ride to the Senior Center in the morning and return home a little after lunch. "The concept was to encourage people to go in to the Senior Center and participate in the programming for the morning, and stay for lunch programs, and then go home," said Sara Arnold, co-chair of the Transportation Advisory Committee (TAC). "Clearly, we're interested in …

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