That is the question town meeting voters will be asked on Monday.
Two months have passed since Medfield’s iconic Lord’s Department Store closed its doors and the community action group “Medfield Remembers Lord’s” is gearing up again, this time to save the Lord’s sign. There is an article on this year’s annual town meeting warrant to “Appropriate a sum of money for the preservation of the Lord's sign.” Group organizer Nancy Norris says the amount being discussed is $5,000, and that since the new property owner has not committed to allow the preservation of the sign, the thinking is to set aside enough money in the budget to allow the town to proceed with plans for the sign as soon as the owner gives its approval. Norris says the town has indicated an interest in declaring the sign a historic landmark …
Store owners have created a memory book where customers have started to write down their favorite Lord's memory including one little girl whose dream it is that the owners will change their minds and keep the store open.
The memory binder at the front of Lord's Department Store is chuck full of memories from people who have loved the store over the years -- people who are grieving the loss of their beloved Lord's while doing what they can to preserve its good name. Customers, both young and old, near and far (many by email), are included in the book. Here are a few examples: I remember coming here on bike at age nine to get the Boston Globe for my aunt and parents. I remember buying my mother a necklace for Mother's Day when there was a jewelry counter. I remember riding my bike here to get my mother a spool of thread or a zipper when she was in the middle of a sewing project. If you need something, most likely you could find it at Lord's. We will miss…
Nancy Norris
2:19 pm on Monday, April 29, 2013
In a perfect world, I'd like to see the sign move to the top of the building it's on now. I believe the property owner and the town are amenable to working out an agreement for how that might work. Passing Article 30 will not give the town ownership of the sign, as far as I know, but it will give the town the freedom and authority to work with the property owner when the owner is ready to have … more ›