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Jan 17, 2025 | 
lexobserver.org | Maggie Scales
Massachusetts is home to world-renowned colleges and universities such as Harvard and MIT. It also hosts universally respected medical centers such as Massachusetts General Hospital and thriving biotechnology companies such as Moderna. Those assets have attracted many high earners to the Bay State, contributing to its median household income reaching nearly $100,000. Despite such wealth, hunger in the Bay State persists.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
lexobserver.org | Maggie Scales
Lexington’s Historical Commission voted to impose a 21-month demolition delay on the house at 25 Moon Hill Road, a historic mid-century modern property listed on the National Register of Historic Places, during its meeting on Wednesday. Yvette Beeman, a Lexington resident, and her business partner Krassi Diehl, a general contractor, are buying the property.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
lexobserver.org | Maggie Scales
The mid-century modern house at 25 Moon Hill Road in Lexington, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, will be presented to the town’s Historical Commission for demolition on Jan. 15. The contemporary build was the first of 28 houses on Moon Hill Road designed by Walter Gropius, a founder of The Architects Collaborative, or TAC, a Cambridge-based architecture firm deemed one of the most influential of the twentieth century.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
lexobserver.org | Maggie Scales
Lexington and Concord made the New York Times’ annual list of “52 Places to Go in 2025” because of the towns’ upcoming events celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord this year. On NYT’s list, Lexington shares space with exotic destinations such as the Galápagos Islands in Ecuador, the Dolomite Mountains in Italy, the Lofoten Islands in Norway, and more.
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Jan 1, 2025 | 
lexobserver.org | Maggie Scales
Lexington’s annual town election is slated for March 3 and several major office positions and Town Meeting member seats are open. Each precinct has at least seven Town Meeting member seats open, most of which are for three-year terms, but a few of which are for two and one year terms.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
lexobserver.org | Maggie Scales
Small Business Saturday might be over, but it isn’t too late to shop locally. Whether you’re shopping for trending books and games for children, self-care goodies for your best friend, or bespoke artwork for the person who has it all, look no further than Lexington Center. LexObserver stopped into some of the town’s small businesses to see what products are flying off the shelves this holiday shopping season.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
lexobserver.org | Maggie Scales
Funerals come in all shapes and sizes. Some families prefer to cremate relatives and keep them in a decorative urn on their mantel. Some prefer to bury loved ones in their hometown so they can remain close to friends and family. In nearly every Massachusetts town, there is a cemetery and funeral home, so if you prefer to buy a plot of land, a casket, and a head stone locally, you could likely do so, albeit at a tall price. But in the Bay State, not all end-of-life services are accessible.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
lexobserver.org | Maggie Scales
After graduating from Lexington High School in 2020, Sam Andrews moved to Washington, D.C., with his sights set on working in politics after graduating from George Washington University. But during his sophomore year, Andrews, who studied political communications and economics at GW, took an art class that turned his professional aspirations on their head. “I fell in love with Van Gogh,” he said.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
lexobserver.org | Maggie Scales
A new three-story condo complex is being constructed at 89 Bedford St., the site of the historical John Davis/Hosea Holt House, in adherence with the state’s MBTA Communities Act. The act requires Massachusetts’ 177 municipalities served by — or bordering municipalities served by — the MBTA to encourage the development of multi-family housing near transit corridors such as Commuter Rail, T, and bus stops. Former Gov. Charlie Baker signed the act into law in Jan.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
lexobserver.org | Maggie Scales
New immigrants and their advocates in Lexington nervously await President-elect Donald Trump’s second term to hear what his immigration policy will entail. Trump and those he’s selected to work in his administration have stated they will use the military and state National Guard troops to conduct mass deportations and hold undocumented immigrants in camps along the southern border, among other anti-immigration plans, though nothing is set in stone until he’s in office. Gov.
