March 1977
Article 17 on the Annual Town Meeting warrant proposed to institute a full-time fire chief position, with an annual salary of $14,000.
Article 22 on the warrant proposed to establish a Harvard Council on Aging and to appropriate $300 for its use.
Article 33 on the warrant offered a resolution “recognizing the importance of agriculture to the well-being of all, and declaring that it shall be the intent of the town to preserve the agricultural base of the community and to encourage farming. …”
Playing at the movies: The Sentinel, Across the Great Divide, The Town that Dreaded Sundown
March 1987
Article 28 on the Annual Town Meeting warrant proposed that the selectmen be directed to solicit proposals from cable TV companies to provide cable service to the town.
Article 34 on the warrant asked for $225,000, which the Finance Committee believed should be taken from the stabilization fund for the preparation of architectural and engineering plans for the remodeling of the schools.
Playing at the movies: Radio Days, Some Kind of Wonderful, Nightmare on Elm Street Part 3
March 1997
A former town moderator said he believed that the days of the New England town meeting were numbered. He said he believed the institution was threatened by anti-tax groups who would like to see town warrants voted on by ballot “because it’s easier to vote down spending in secret.”
As voters prepared to consider a zoning change that would allow a cell tower in town, an editorial opined: “The prospect of radio communications towers being built all over Harvard and Massachusetts, and for that matter, the nation, isn’t a pretty one—but it’s going to happen, ready or not.”
March 2007
A citizens’ petition added an article to the Annual Town Meeting warrant that proposed to make the selection of Finance Committee members occur by vote rather than appointment.
After 120 of service to the town, the public library on Fairbank Street closed its doors in preparation for the move to the new library at Old Bromfield.
A Whitney Road resident reported seeing a bobcat near his bird feeder.
A committee was formed to look into creating a farmers’ market in Harvard.
Based on reports in the old Harvard Post and in the Harvard Press.
