An Open Meeting Law complaint against the Select Board, filed April 24 by Harvard Press editor John Osborn on behalf of the Press, has been resolved to the Press’ satisfaction.

A standing-room-only crowd of 126 voters made short work of approving the extra $2.3 million to cover the April bids for the project to connect the town’s water supply to Devens at Special Town Meeting May 14, held at Town Hall.

The Select Board approved the Town Administrator Search Committee’s recommendation to appoint Chris Frechette and Joe Theriault as its two citizens at large at a meeting held just before Special Town Meeting, May 14.

With the date of Harvard’s annual parade less than seven weeks away, the town’s Fourth of July Committee and League of Women Voters of Harvard seemed ready to resolve their nearly year-old dispute. But differences remain.

Harvard is poised to receive a total of $620,574 from opioid settlement agreements reached with companies whose business practices contributed to the country’s epidemic of opioid addiction. That amount is far higher than neighboring towns will receive.

Only one article is on the warrant for the May 14 Special Town Meeting—a request for voters to approve an additional $2.3 million to connect the town’s water system to the Devens water supply.

What’s so special about the Special Town Meeting set for Tuesday, May 14, at 7 p.m. upstairs at Town Hall?

By a unanimous vote of the Select Board this week, the town’s Fire Department and the Ambulance Service were merged into a new entity, the Harvard Fire EMS Department. 

The Bromfield School stands high—both in the state and the nation—in the U.S. News & World Report rankings of public high schools, which were released in late April.

This week the Army began its investigation to determine if the PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) found in the water of private wells in northwest Harvard may have come from the former Fort Devens.