March 1991
Nine Harvard families eagerly awaited the return of husbands and sons from active duty in the Middle East.
Town officials received some good news from the state: state aid for the coming fiscal year would be down only $50,000, instead of the $300,000 predicted by the Finance Committee.
A letter-writer urged readers to consider how the Gulf War had caused immeasurable harm to the Earth, in the form of carbon dioxide and black soot from burning oil wells, and the disruption of fragile ecosystems caused by the “constant beating of tanks and explosions.”
March 1993
The School Committee voted 4–1 to implement a pilot program at Bromfield making condoms available to students in grades 10 to 12.
Expected to be the “storm of the century,” the “blizzard of ’93” dropped only 18 inches of snow in Harvard.
—Based on reports in the old Harvard Post
