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Cookbook club members taste each other’s prepared dishes at the Harvard Public Library. This month’s theme of food insecurity challenged participants to create a meal to feed a family of four for $10 or less. From left: Jill Hayes, Pam Brown, Jennifer McMillan, Bonnie Chandler, Connie Woolcock, and Eileen Kronauer. (Photo by Thomas Kilian)

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Friday, December 20, 2024

Passage of economic development bill offers dual paths to increased housing at Devens

With time running out, municipal and state agencies scrambled this week to name representatives to the working group that will study the feasibility of building more housing in Devens, in an area that includes the iconic quadrangle of abandoned Army barracks known as Vicksburg Square.

Friday, December 20, 2024

School Committee hears plan to revise graduation requirements

In the recent election, voters rejected requiring a passing score on the MCAS for high school graduation. In the wake of that change, Harvard school administrators are updating graduation requirements for the Bromfield High School.

Friday, December 20, 2024

Free shuttle to Emerson Hospital to begin in January

Thanks to a grant from the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, many patients who were accustomed to receiving care from the now-closed Nashoba Valley Medical Center will have access to a free shuttle to Emerson Hospital.

Friday, December 20, 2024

Baron is named interim harbormaster

With a new year approaching, the Park and Recreation Commission faced the need for someone to carry out the duties of harbormaster while the longtime incumbent, Bob O’Shea, remains ill.

Friday, December 13, 2024

Area leaders vow to restore emergency room at closed Nashoba Valley hospital

This week the Nashoba Valley working group convened by Gov. Maura Healey in October blessed the creation of a nine-member subcommittee whose job is to determine the services a reconstituted ER would need to provide and to find a means to pay for them. 

Friday, December 13, 2024

Fire chief asks CPIC to recommend $300K to design new fire station—but where to build it?

Fire Chief Rick Sicard came before the Capital Planning and Investment Committee at its Nov. 20 meeting in the hope the committee would get the ball rolling on a new fire station. But the project is proving to be a conundrum. 

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"So the shortest day came, and the year died, and everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world, came people singing, dancing, to drive the dark away."
—Susan Cooper (b. 1935, British author)

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