October 1987
An editorial commented that the weekend the clocks turn back is one of the most depressing of the year, since it marks the beginning of months of driving home from work in the dark. It said that all the “calamities of the day” paled in comparison to the descent into winter gloom. Those calamities? “The stock market bouncing around like a kid on a trampoline, developers massing on Harvard’s borders,” and the threat of war in the Persian Gulf.
Selectmen told two developers who came to a Board of Selectmen meeting to discuss affordable housing that what the town needed was elderly housing.
November 1987
A mid-month snowstorm postponed the Bromfield Trojans boys’ soccer contest against Groton in the semifinal Central Mass Soccer Tournament.
A letter-writer decried the destruction of most of the mailboxes on Warren Ave. and wondered, “Must we buy mailboxes in quantity to minimize the cost—appeal to police, who are unable to cope with such a wide-ranging activity—complain to the parents who fail to exert proper discipline—or just sit by and talk about the problems of affluence and delinquent adolescents?”
Responding to inquiries about the possible closure of Fort Devens, a major in the fort’s information office said, “I’ve heard nothing.” He noted that the fort would be breaking ground for a new intelligence school that month and that a new $2.7 million officer’s club would be opening in December. He added that plans were in the works for a $2.5 million 60-room guest lodge.“That doesn’t sound as if we expect to be closed,” he said.
—Based on reports in the old Harvard Post
