The town has contracted with Capital Strategic Solutions, a municipal consulting firm based in Marlborough, for an interim Department of Public Works director. 

Although it is still fairly early in the growing season, orchards in town are already feeling the impacts of the extreme shift in weather, with some reporting delayed plant growth and crop losses.

The sun smiled on Harvard’s Memorial Day ceremonies May 26 as warmer temperatures brought out a crowd of more than 100 people to the Common to remember Harvard residents who died while serving in the United States armed forces. 

Manganese. Arsenic. Dioxane. In all, eight substances, including PFAS, were found in the groundwater around the old landfill at levels that exceed various state and federal drinking water standards.

The only public transportation in town, MART, (Montachusett Regional Transit Authority), has expanded its services. Harvard residents can now get rides to Emerson Hospital and nearby Baker Avenue medical offices.

Around 5 p.m. Sunday, May 25, a caller notified Harvard police of a break-in at the Oak Ridge Observatory on Pinnacle Road.