June 1979
Commenting on speculation in a congressman’s report that major oil companies were withholding oil, a letter-writer wrote, “This belief in the magic gas pump and bloated profits has persisted in some parts of the Congress for over five years (ever since the oil embargo let us know that all is not well). So many Americans have gotten the impression from their elected representatives that there is no REAL problem with oil supplies.”
The population of Harvard passed the 4,000 mark, standing officially at 4,150.
Selectmen took the Board of Health to task for suggesting that the town should develop standards for the installation of gasoline storage tanks.
Most of the questions from the 15 people who attended a public hearing on improvements to the town’s water system centered around the financing method for the $499,000 project.
June 1989
Bare Hill Pond Watershed Management Committee members reported that they had spent several hours in a boat on the pond looking for weeds, but had found “hardly any.”
In a tribute to her parents’ generation, the Bromfield valedictorian said, “The poverty, hunger, sickness, ignorance, and strife that the Woodstock generation hoped to eradicate are still overwhelming problems for our generation. Even as we, the children of the Woodstock generation, celebrate our graduation, contemporaries of ours across the world are struggling to find shelter and food, and are fighting to achieve the fundamental rights we take for granted. … Today the flame of the Woodstock generation has been handed to us. … It is our burden and responsibility to carry on the fight they began. It is our burden to see that peace starts ‘breaking out’ all over the world.”
Selectmen concluded that the planned Town Hall renovation project should also include the police station and should take into account emergency access to fire and ambulance quarters. A proposal under consideration would add 4,000 square feet to Town Hall. One option would move the building back and add space beneath it. Another would add an attic, an addition at the back of the building, or a link between the Town Hall and ambulance quarters.
Based on reports in the old Harvard Post.
