Nearly two years after Nashoba Valley Medical Center closed, local ambulances are driving longer distances to reach emergency rooms, families are facing six-month waits for mental health therapists, and seniors are traveling further to reach doctors who used to be nearby.

The skies wept as this year’s Memorial Day ceremonies got underway. Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Jon Schoenberg, master of ceremonies, scrolled through radar images on his phone looking for a break in the rain that blanketed the area.

While the spring weather continues to bring early winter-like conditions to Harvard, town officials are gearing up for the summer season at Bare Hill Pond. Beach staffing, boat storage, and resource management have been at the forefront of Park and Rec Director Anne McWaters’ and Harbormaster Ben Baron’s minds for months.

Minco Corporation wants to build 234 rental apartments in the town’s multifamily district at the intersection of Route 2 and Ayer Road, but it needs state grants to afford the development’s expensive water and sewer system.

Volunteers for the annual townwide cleanup in April learned exactly what ends up along Harvard’s roadsides, trails, and public spaces over the course of a year: a little bit of everything.

For nearly two years, the story of healthcare in the Nashoba Valley has been defined by what the region lost. A new regional health study says the problem is bigger—and older—than that.

The town will welcome a new director of economic and community development, a position vacant since Chris Ryan left that post in 2022.

more than 20 years, Harvard has offered elderly or disabled homeowners help in paying their property tax bills. This year, applications for that assistance are due to the town treasurer by May 28.

Members of the Harvard-Devens Jurisdiction Committee said last week that a provision of Gov. Maura Healey’s economic development bill would hand the state too much authority over zoning decisions at Devens and that Harvard officials learned of the change just one day before the governor filed it.