The algae bloom that began in late August is officially over, according to the results of the Board of Health’s water samples collected Sept. 26 and Oct. 1. Swimming is once again safe in Bare Hill Pond.
With inflation gradually declining, the Personnel Board voted unanimously last week to recommend a cost-of-living increase of 3.19% for the town’s nonunion employees in fiscal 2026.
The Healey-Driscoll administration has opened a $15 million grant program for communities that are certified as compliant with the MBTA Communities Act, and Harvard is eligible.
Some Harvard residents may cringe at the thought of crowds and lines, so the office of the town clerk is inviting those folks (along with other early birds) to cast their votes for the 2024 general election, in person and early.
The Select Board voted unanimously at its Oct. 15 meeting to approve using most of the town’s remaining American Rescue Plan Act funds to buy a pickup truck for the Department of Public Works director and to pay for final design work on the Ayer Road project.
The Water Commission is struggling to find the cheapest way to provide a state-required restroom in the small pump station that will be built as part of the Devens water connection project.
What happens when only listeners attend a listening session? Such was the case Oct. 7 at the Board of Health’s first community listening session, intended to gather residents’ feedback on the use of the town’s opioid settlement funds.
It’s capital request season in Harvard, and first up at the Capital Planning and Investment Committee meeting Oct. 3 was Police Chief James Babu.
The Harvard Lions Club announced Monday it is joining with the Harvard schools, churches, and local businesses to gather much-needed supplies and truck them first to a Massachusetts collection site and then to Asheville, North Carolina, an area devastated by Hurricane Helene.
The first step to connect the town’s public water system to the Devens public water supply was completed Oct. 8. Contractors connected the first section of the new water main that will eventually run the full length of Depot Road to the existing water main that runs along Ayer Road.
MassDevelopment’s chief financial officer Simon Gerlin reported last week that while Devens will continue to operate at a loss in fiscal 2025, the finances of the 33-year old redevelopment project are healthy.
The Healey-Driscoll administration announced the membership of the Nashoba Valley working group Tuesday, but aside from Harvard’s state senator and state representative, the town has no official representation.
People were still checking in as Moderator Bill Barton opened Town Meeting last Saturday at noon, asking people to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.
After weeks of silence following the closing of the Nashoba Valley Medical Center, the Healey-Driscoll administration announced last week that it will convene a working group to “stabilize and revitalize” health care in the Nashoba Valley region.
A proposal to use a portion of the town’s opioid settlement funds to pay for a video designed to communicate the dangers of opioids came before the Select Board twice in September.
Statewide results were posted last week for the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) exams that were administered in the spring of this year.
For the second time in five months, MassDevelopment has a new interim president and CEO.
At the second session of Harvard’s Annual Town Meeting Saturday, Sept. 28, voters will be asked to approve 13 articles.
Articles 11 and 12 both create new funds for use by the schools. Each would do a job that some other fund formerly did. And each new fund is intended to solve a problem that arose in the past year.
The state is inviting towns to adopt more stringent building codes for energy efficiency in homes and businesses, and in return would make towns that adopt them eligible for energy efficiency grants.