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From left Jintang, Mutch, and Jessica Jiang signal that they’ve won a frozen turkey at the Harvard Fire Association’s Turkey Raffle, an annual fundraiser since 1978. (Photo by Lisa Aciukewicz) MORE PHOTOS
After months of negotiation, the Massachusetts House and Senate, meeting in special session last week, passed and sent to Gov. Maura Healey the $4 billion “Mass Leads” economic development bill she proposed in February, including two provisions that could dramatically increase housing in Devens.
The tax bills of most property owners will jump in January to cover the rising cost of town government, including the Proposition 2½ override approved by voters last spring.
The Select Board’s quest to find land for athletic playing fields has expanded to include the possibility of using the town-owned land behind Hildreth Elementary School, known as the Small land, for two playing fields and a ball field.
Here are the sites currently under consideration by the Select Board for additional athletic fields.
While the Parks and Recreation Commission continues its search for a location to install new athletic fields, an existing facility has outlived its expected lifespan and needs to be revived—the McCurdy Track and the playing field inside it.
The fiscal 2026 budget request that School Committee members voted to approve last Monday was about $465,000 smaller than the budget the committee had discussed just a week before.
It was no surprise that Harvard, like Massachusetts, supported the Democratic nominee, Kamala Harris. But Harvard joined only a few other towns in the state to say “no” to ballot Question 2, which asked if the state should drop the requirement that high school students pass the grade 10 MCAS test to graduate.
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