During the week, police made one traffic stop and issued one citation. Two firearms licenses were issued. The ambulance crew responded to six medical emergencies and took four people to area hospitals, two with Advanced Life Support on board.
Tuesday, Feb. 20
A driver parked at the Healing Garden on Bolton Road called at 11:28 a.m. to request help unlocking her car. By the time an officer arrived, she had found her keys. At 11:54 a.m. police and the ambulance responded to a 911 call and took a female Stow Road resident to Nashoba Valley Medical Center with Advanced Life Support services on board. At 1:29 p.m. an Ayer Road business owner called to complain that a car had been left in an adjacent parking lot for more than a week. Police tracked down the owner and asked that the car be moved. Harvard police are authorized to issue parking tickets, an officer told the Press, but no tickets have been printed, leaving police no recourse but to tow an offending vehicle.
Wednesday, Feb. 21
Police went to a Slough Road residence at 7:38 a.m. to investigate an activated burglar alarm. Nothing was amiss. At 4:38 p.m. police and fire responded to a phone report of an activated carbon monoxide detector. The reporting party had also complained of feeling ill. The fire officer checked the premises but could find no evidence of excess carbon monoxide. Responding to a 5:14 p.m. call, an officer and the ambulance crew provided a lift assist to a male resident on Old Littleton Road. The caller declined transport to a hospital. A resident phoned the station at 5:24 p.m. to report that someone had left a rose on the hood of her car; the caller wanted the incident logged because attention from the responsible party was unwanted. Police were notified at 6:42 p.m. of a disabled vehicle at the intersection of Ayer and Poor Farm roads. As it was a hazard to traffic, the car had to be towed. At 11:39 p.m. police and the ambulance crew provided lift assistance to a male resident of Deerfoot Trail who had slipped and fallen.
Thursday, Feb. 22
An Eldridge Road resident phoned police at 3:50 a.m. complaining of loud construction vehicles patching a pothole on Interstate 495. An officer investigated and found the crew just wrapping up its work.
Friday, Feb 23
An Old Shirley Road resident reported at 9:53 a.m. that a carbon monoxide detector in the house had been activated. Police and fire found no sign of carbon monoxide and concluded the device was faulty. An alarm company called at 10:34 a.m. to ask police to investigate a Jacob Gates Road residence where a burglar alarm had gone off. The company warned police there were three German shepherds in the house. Police phoned the homeowner, who said that a housecleaner was at work on the premises. Someone called 911 at 6:41 p.m. to report that a disabled vehicle at the Route 2 overpass on Ayer Road was a hazard. Police had the car towed.
Saturday, Feb. 24
At 11:30 a.m. police and the ambulance, responding to a 911 call, went to the aid of an Old Mill Road resident who had reportedly suffered a stroke. The patient was taken to Nashoba Valley Medical Center with ALS on board. Police and the ambulance crew answered a second 911 call at 7:25 p.m. and took a female West Bare Hill Road resident who had fallen to Emerson Hospital. At 10:39 p.m. a West Bare Hill caller reported a horse running loose in the neighborhood. The owner was notified, and the horse was returned to its residence.
Sunday, Feb. 25
An officer on patrol reported at 4:04 a.m. that someone had moved a sand-filled barrel from the entrance to Town Hall to the middle of Ayer Road. He also discovered that a picnic table next to the General Store had been moved into the intersection of Mass. Ave. and Still River Road. “God forbid anyone hit that barrel,” the officer told the Press, adding that those responsible for either incident could be subject to criminal misdemeanor or felony charges. At 6:19 a.m. police asked Harvard DPW and the state Department of Transportation to begin treating Harvard roads, which had become icy. Police investigated an abandoned 911 call from a Warren Avenue residence at 11:52 a.m. The call had been dialed accidentally due to a fault in the homeowner’s service. The homeowner was asked to contact the phone company. A Stow Road resident called police at 8:17 p.m. to report that a tree had fallen between Finn Road and a fire pond, creating a hazardous condition. An officer went to the scene, pushed the tree away from the road, and called DPW to remove it.
Monday, Feb. 26
A passing driver notified police at 5:04 a.m. that there were large boulders in Ayer Road, creating a traffic hazard. Police surmised that the rocks had been pushed into the roadway by a truck exiting the Appleworks parking lot. An officer went to the scene and managed to push the boulders to the side of the road and mark them with traffic cones. DPW was notified and later came to push the rocks back into position. At 10:09 a.m. an officer was traveling on Route 2 when he was passed by a car traveling at a speed of 80 mph or more by his estimate. He stopped the vehicle and issued the female driver a written warning. At 2:25 p.m. police and fire responded to an Oak Hill Road resident’s phone report that a carbon monoxide detector had sounded. The problem was an exhausted battery, which the on-duty fire officer replaced. At 2:30 p.m. the driver of a Mercedes called to report that a rock had fallen from a trash truck he had been following on Ayer Road, damaging his hood. He had caught up with the truck at the Ayer traffic circle, but because the accident had occurred in Harvard, he was told to contact the Harvard Police Department. An officer responded and issued a written warning to the driver of the truck for failing to properly secure his load. Someone called at 3:30 p.m. to say that a dark gray and tan cat was wandering near the offices across from Dunkin’ Donuts on Ayer Road. The caller was told to call animal control. At 11:02 p.m. a passing driver notified police that electrical tools and supplies were strewn in the road near the intersection of Ayer and Poor Farm roads. An officer went to the scene, and as he was picking up the scattered materials, their owner returned. He had forgotten to close the rear door of his truck.
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