What was going on in Harvard a year agotoday … 10, 15 years ago? Here are Press headlines from previous issues on or near today’s date.
September 28, 2007
- Superintendent and school board under fire
- ZBA deliberates fate of Ayer Road project
- Selectmen hold hearing on Devens acceptance criteria
October 3, 2008
- JBOS wrestles with housing impact on schools
- Health board enters Delaney dog debate
- Harvard stays near top in MCAS scores
October 2, 2009
- MCAS and SAT scores for 2009 show mixed results
- Conservation Commission says no to Fruitlands support request
- H1N1 flu vaccine likely available in mid-October
October 1, 2010
- Subcommittee can’t agree on school holiday policy
- Trinity Financial to seek community input for Vicksburg Square redevelopment
September 30, 2011
- Initial budget outlook: No service cuts
- Hildreth Elementary tightening entrance security
- JBOS shrinking but will keep on meeting
- Conservation Commission to seek $50k from CPC
September 28, 2012
- School Committee names superintendent search team
- Sewer Commission sets betterments, rates, and fees
- French firm takes over half of former Evergreen Solar plant
September 27, 2013
- Great Elms sold to nonprofit, barn to move across town
- Town Hall project needs $1.1 million more to start construction
- Local farmers face new labor costs
October 3, 2014
- Charter announces change to an all-digital network by end of month
- Residents and pond users search for solutions at harbormaster’s forum
- Harvard’s MCAS scores are high, with Bromfield tops in English
- Special Town Caucus nominates two for empty seat on Board of Selectmen
October 2, 2015
- School Committee says no to upper Town Hall offices
- Trust suggests Bromfield House for affordable housing
- Drug-sniffing dogs returning to Bromfield
- Selectmen seek ideas on use of Town Hall’s large meeting room
September 30, 2016
- CASE Collaborative declares interest in leasing old library
- Drought, now ‘extreme,’ continues to plague Harvard and much of state
- Selectmen propose field sharing at Devens
- Charter Commission meets with three more committees, posts ‘draft’ charter
- Broadband committee urges town to vote for municipal light plant
September 29, 2017
- UMass report adds heft to draft charter critiques
- School Committee reacts to retiree insurance changes
- Benson urges small towns to unite on wage relief petition
- Bromfield science lab renovations resume
September 28, 2018
- CPIC recommends town buy second mixed paper compactor
- Town administrator says land swap is off, for now
- Town hires veteran planner as director of community and economic development
- CPIC reluctantly agrees on plan to fund old library project overage
September 27, 2019
- New contractor to finish Ann Lees field; mistrust persists
- ConCom OKs bow hunting on conservation land, but not until next year
- School Committee gets a curve ball on Title IX issue
October 2, 2020
- Still River post office to close, postal officials say new site is possible
- Bromfield House faces uncertain future next spring
- State moves from guidelines to regulations for PFAS in drinking water
October 1, 2021
- Town officials won’t rule out override as fiscal 2023 budgeting begins
- Committees seek additional money to protect Prospect Hill orchard
- No bids received on town well project
- Parks and Rec rejects endorsement of warrant article addressing climate change
- School Committee joins request for $4.5 million for athletic field complex
- Dispute at orchard leads to assault charges
- COVID costs knocked schools off budget in FY21, but federal aid filled the gap
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