September 1973
Confusion about a webworm infestation was a big page-one story. Some people feared the worms would destroy. A Bromfield biology teacher offered assurances that the worms don’t kill trees, and that they were a “very natural part of the food chain.”
An increase in the cost of school lunches bumped the price to $.35 for children and $.55 for adults.
The School Committee adopted a policy stating that no motor vehicles would be allowed on the playing surfaces of the athletic fields.
September 1974
The Harvard Post celebrated its second anniversary.
Buster and Billie, The Tamarind Seed, and Thunderbolt and Lightfoot were playing at local movie theaters.
An editorial commenting on a massive new shopping center planned in Hudson and Berlin just off Interstate 495 pondered how long we could “go on in the same old patterns of living.” It went on, “Must we continue to buy cars, burn gasoline, build super highways and giant shopping malls and, in the process, completely destroy the concept of small neighborhood business establishments?”
September 1990
The transfer station celebrated the grand opening of an expanded recycling program.
Two Harvard residents, including a member of the Planning Board, were among those called to active duty and told to prepare for deployment to the Persian Gulf.
A local heating oil company’s advertised oil price was $.99 per gallon.
September 1991
Selectmen from Ayer, Harvard. Lancaster, and Shirley met to “put a stake in the ground and define a vision of what the towns want to see happen” when Fort Devens loses its military reservation status.
A local heating oil company advertised its oil for $.82 per gallon.
A three-and-a-half-foot python sought refuge in a Still River shed after escaping from captivity, possibly from somewhere on Fort Devens, according to a wildlife expert called in to assist with its capture.
Based on reports in the old Harvard Post
