June 1988
A wagon train passed through town on its way to Maine from Sutton. The group sponsoring the trip was hoping to raise money for three historic farms used as learning centers.
Heating oil was selling for 78 cents a gallon.
June 1990
Harvard cable television made its debut.
An editorial observed: “Harvard is fortunate that two of its immediate neighbors—Ayer and Bolton—have expressed strong support for regional cooperation. The selectmen from Harvard and Bolton have made a good start toward supplementing each other’s public works resources, and they are eyeing other forms of cooperation as well.”
The Fourth of July Committee made plans to revive an old tradition—an Independence Day oratory contest.
June 1992
At a meeting between local members of the governor’s Redevelopment Board and the Mass. Land Bank (now Mass Development), the Land Bank representative warned, “The redevelopment of Fort Devens is not a nice, manageable little project. … Harvard is coming up against the 21st century, and all the things not done in the past will be visited upon the townspeople tenfold.”
Speakers at an economic conference sponsored by the Mass. Land Bank predicted economic recovery and envisioned Devens as a rail hub.
Based on reports in the old Harvard Post
