The Select Board is considering next steps as it evaluates two iterations of a water and sewer plan for the town’s multifamily district on Ayer Road. Portland, Maine-based engineering firm Woodard & Curran presented the town with two plans.

A towering elm near the library was felled by a work crew from Favreau Forestry of Sterling last week, because rot detected at the tree’s base made it unsafe for the heavily used public area.

The School Committee voted unanimously at its meeting April 13 to hire Molly Superchi as the district’s new assistant superintendent, with a three-year contract starting July 1.

Voting “yes” on articles 25, 26, and 27 at the May 2 Town Meeting would update Harvard’s 16-year-old bylaw regulating ground-mounted solar installations and would let the town continue negotiating with a solar developer to create a new 1.4 MW solar farm on town-owned land.

Tensions over Harvard’s perceived approach to the future governance of Devens spilled into the April 8 quarterly meeting of the Devens Jurisdiction Framework Committee, fueling an hour-long discussion on the differing roles of the framework and town committees.

Harvard residents will pay more for Transfer Station access and town trash bags starting this month, after the Select Board concluded that current fees do not fully cover the cost of operating the facility and disposing of trash.

MassDevelopment’s newly appointed Executive Vice President of Devens Operations Michael Sweeney made his first appearance before the Devens Committee at its April 1 meeting, joining its five members and a smattering of attendees via Zoom.

Last month, Harvard received two substantial grants from the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources to help the town “decarbonize” its municipal buildings, reducing the amount of fossil fuel they use.

Park and Recreation Director Anne McWaters has vetted and chosen Westboro Tennis Surfaces to reconstruct the Bromfield tennis courts for $228,000 this July. But there is one wrinkle: Town Meeting must approve the money.

The Finance Committee voted unanimously Tuesday afternoon to recommend the Select Board’s proposed fiscal 2027 budget, but much of the discussion centered on a five-year forecast that projects the town’s currently balanced budget sliding into a structural deficit of more than $5 million by fiscal 2031.

Lead consultant Jonathan Charwick, of the landscape architecture and engineering firm Activitas Inc., has recommended Cataldo Construction as the company to reconstruct McCurdy Track and the soccer field at Harvard Park.

Toting protest signs while bundled in parkas, gloves, and winter hats, roughly 300 people flooded the Common this past Saturday, March 28, to take part in the third No Kings Rally, a national movement that addresses a wide range of grievances with the second Trump administration.

The Department of Public Works director continues to implement changes by hiring a director of operations and promoting one of its longtime employees into the vacant role of working foreman.

For the first time in seven years, the Select Board is considering raising both the Transfer Station annual sticker fee and the price of bags to cover past and future costs associated with the old landfill.

Because a toxic class of chemicals has leaked from the former Harvard landfill into the well water of homes on and near Depot Road, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection ordered the town last year to provide remediation.

Earlier this month Police Chief James Babu announced the Harvard Police Department has been awarded $127,716 through the state’s grant program for body-worn cameras.