Category: Archived

  • 2025 Land Trust Scholarship

    2025 Land Trust Scholarship

    The Arlington Land Trust is welcoming applications for its Land Trust Conservation Scholarship. The deadline is April 15. Download Application Form.

    To be eligible for a $1,000 scholarship, you must be a high school senior and a resident of Arlington. You may be attending Arlington High School, Arlington Catholic, Minuteman, or another public or private high school. The Land Trust seeks to support seniors who will be pursuing education, volunteer service or work in conservation, environmental protection or a related field after graduation. The award will be given to one or more Arlington residents at a time decided by their high school. View last year’s winners. 

    Send your completed application to norafrank@comcast.net by April 15, 2025. All applications will be acknowledged. When submitting your application, please name it: ALTScholarship[YOURLASTNAME] (e.g., ALTScholarshipSMITH). 

  • Spy Pond Scavenger Hunts

    Spy Pond Scavenger Hunts

    Since the annual Spy Pond Park Fun Day had to be cancelled this year, the Friends of Spy Pond Park created two activities that families, teenagers and adults can do while wearing masks and staying socially distanced in and near Spy Pond Park.

    A Public Art Hunt is fun for all ages including preschoolers. Click here for the images of 7 pieces of public art in Spy Pond Park and the bike path above it.

    The History Mysteries Hunt uses QR codes to take you around the park to find out what was happening around Spy Pond in the 1600s, 1700s, 1800s, late 1900s and today. All you have to do is point your smartphone camera at the codes. Click here for the first clue to get you started.

  • The Quabbin Reservoir and Beyond – Presentation March 15

    The Quabbin Reservoir and Beyond – Presentation March 15

    Note: The talk on Quabbin Reservoir scheduled for Sunday, March 15, is being cancelled by the Lexington Cary Library in the interest of public health.  3/11/2020

    Sunday, March 15, 2020, at 2:30pm

    Land and Water: The Quabbin Reservoir and Beyond

    Presented by Leigh Youngblood, Executive Director, Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust

    Cary Memorial Library, 1874 Massachusetts Avenue, Lexington

    The Quabbin Reservoir is the largest inland body of water in Massachusetts, and is the primary water supply for 40+ communities in Greater Boston. Leigh Youngblood, will give a presentation on the construction of the reservoir, the four lost towns of the Quabbin Reservoir (Dana, Enfield, Greenwich, and Prescott) and the land, water, wildlife, and people that persevere there today. 

    Many individuals living in the greater North Quabbin region, where Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust conserves and stewards land, have parents who experienced the relocation, keeping the legacy very much alive today. Constant encounters with landowners, foresters, biologists, surveyors, historians, artists, anglers, poets, and others inform a balanced perspective between the practical and the personal. This talk is co-sponsored by the Lexington Field & Garden Club.

  • Mill Brook Video

    Mill Brook Video

    Award winning video producer and Arlington resident Glenn Litton has worked with representatives of the Old Schwamb Mill to create a short video entitled Mill Brook Rediscovered.

    The video was developed to complement the exhibit, “A Brook Runs Through It: Arlington’s Mill Brook Legacy,” which was shown at the Mill, 17 Mill Lane in Arlington Heights, from September 2018 until June 2019. An adapted version of the Mill Brook exhibit will be shown in the Town Hall Gallery from March 2 to April 30, 2020.

     See www.oldschwambmill.org for more information.