As this school year draws to a close, the School Committee is taking steps to prepare for the new school year that will start next fall.

Eighty-two members of the Bromfield School Class of 2026 received their diplomas Friday afternoon, June 5, in an annual ritual held rain-free on the school’s athletic field.

Things are about to get dirty for the volunteer-led organization installing a pump track in the woods behind McCurdy Track on Lancaster County Road. After four years of planning, efforts to clear the area to construct the pump track are underway.

At its annual goal-setting retreat, held June 9 on the porch of Hildreth House, the Harvard Select Board elected SusanMary Redinger to chair the town’s executive committee for the coming year.

This year’s graduates entered school near Harvard’s peak. The classes behind them are smaller.

The Harvard Select Board voted unanimously Tuesday night to approve a $1 million investment by the town’s Municipal Affordable Housing Trust to subsidize 12 affordable apartments in a 46-unit rental complex being built at Emerson Green in Devens.

The Harvard Select Board met Tuesday night with a KP Law attorney to sharpen a letter opposing a provision of Gov. Maura Healey’s Mass Wins bill that would give MassDevelopment sole authority to propose changes to Devens zoning bylaws.

The town will not apply for a grant to bring water and sewer to its multifamily district—at least not now. So said the Select Board.

Nearly two years after Nashoba Valley Medical Center closed, local ambulances are driving longer distances to reach emergency rooms, families are facing six-month waits for mental health therapists, and seniors are traveling further to reach doctors who used to be nearby.