The Bromfield School is among the top 10 public high schools in Massachusetts, according to the 2019 U.S. News & World Report list that came out in late April.

The Conservation Commission, through a subcommittee on deer management, is considering opening some selected conservation areas to bowhunting when the 2019 deer season begins next October.

The project to restore the center entrance to the old library and make that entrance accessible, due to be completed June 1, is now scheduled for completion July 15.

A contract prepared by DiGiorgio Associates (DAI), the architect chosen to investigate alternative designs for Phase 2 of the Hildreth House renovation and expansion project, was rejected by the Permanent Building Committee.

At its May 15 meeting the Permanent Building Committee voted to choose Kaestle Boos Associates as the architectectural firm for the fire station feasibility study.

Officials in Ayer and Devens and two small public water supply owners in Harvard are scrambling to provide safe drinking water to consumers after the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection recently notified them it will likely lower acceptable PFAS levels from 70 parts per trillion to 20 ppt.

Saturday morning’s wet and gloomy weather was sufficiently miserable to dampen spring games and keep residents from yard work, but not to send record numbers of registered voters to this year’s Annual Town Meeting in the Bromfield School gym May 4.