The Select Board voted unanimously Tuesday to appoint Assistant Town Administrator Dawn Dunbar as Harvard’s interim town administrator at a salary of $164,000, filling the vacancy created by the resignation of Dan Nason.
The Select Board on Tuesday closed the warrant for Harvard’s May 2 Annual Town Meeting, approving a 31-article agenda and a fiscal 2027 budget of $36,731,872.
With eight positions opening on Harvard’s town boards for the May 5 election, only seven candidates had taken out nomination papers by the March 13 deadline.
For the second time in four years, the Harvard Press won first place among small New England weeklies for general excellence in the annual Better Newspaper Competition hosted by the New England Newspaper & Press Association.
After months of budget negotiations that began with a projected deficit of $1.6 million, the Select Board on Tuesday voted unanimously to approve a fiscal 2027 budget of $36,731,872 that includes a Proposition 2½ override of $135,370.
The long-planned renovation of Ayer Road advanced Tuesday evening as the Select Board approved some paperwork to realign two accident-prone intersections.
Harvard’s Capital Planning and Investment Committee voted unanimously at its Feb. 26 meeting to approve two public safety vehicle purchases: a new police cruiser and a plow truck for the Department of Public Works.
A recent discussion among Harvard residents on the social media site Nextdoor showed road salt is an issue for many people in town.
MassDevelopment has appointed Michael R. Sweeney as executive vice president of Devens operations, the agency announced March 6, tapping an economic development veteran to oversee the sprawling 4,400-acre mixed-use community in north central Massachusetts.
The Hanson-Milone Safe Boating Act, signed into law by Gov. Healey January 2025, requires any Massachusetts resident who plans to operate an inboard, motorized vessel on a state body of water this year to earn a boating safety certificate by taking a mandatory 12-hour course and passing a subsequent test.
After a years-long battle with floods and mold, the Harvard Media Cooperative’s cable studio in the Bromfield School is poised to reopen, fully cleaned and renewed.
The Select Board reviewed the draft warrant for Harvard’s May 2 Annual Town Meeting on Tuesday, working through 30 articles that range from a potential property tax override to sweeping changes in town center zoning and a proposal to lease town land for solar energy development.
The Select Board voted unanimously on March 3 to provide cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) of 3.34% to nonunion town employees. Such employees include administrative employees in Town Hall, library staff, cable staff, a firefighter, and an ambulance employee.
Dan Nason has resigned as Harvard’s town administrator. The Select Board learned of his decision in a letter dated Feb. 24 to board members and copied to town department heads Tuesday morning.