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.

The skies wept as this year’s Memorial Day ceremonies got underway. Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Jon Schoenberg, master of ceremonies, scrolled through radar images on his phone looking for a break in the rain that blanketed the area.

While the spring weather continues to bring early winter-like conditions to Harvard, town officials are gearing up for the summer season at Bare Hill Pond. Beach staffing, boat storage, and resource management have been at the forefront of Park and Rec Director Anne McWaters’ and Harbormaster Ben Baron’s minds for months.

Minco Corporation wants to build 234 rental apartments in the town’s multifamily district at the intersection of Route 2 and Ayer Road, but it needs state grants to afford the development’s expensive water and sewer system.

Volunteers for the annual townwide cleanup in April learned exactly what ends up along Harvard’s roadsides, trails, and public spaces over the course of a year: a little bit of everything.

For nearly two years, the story of healthcare in the Nashoba Valley has been defined by what the region lost. A new regional health study says the problem is bigger—and older—than that.

The town will welcome a new director of economic and community development, a position vacant since Chris Ryan left that post in 2022.

more than 20 years, Harvard has offered elderly or disabled homeowners help in paying their property tax bills. This year, applications for that assistance are due to the town treasurer by May 28.

Members of the Harvard-Devens Jurisdiction Committee said last week that a provision of Gov. Maura Healey’s economic development bill would hand the state too much authority over zoning decisions at Devens and that Harvard officials learned of the change just one day before the governor filed it.

Student teams gathered Friday evening, May 8, at the Christa McAuliffe Center at Framingham State University for the inaugural Youth Climate Solutions Challenge awards ceremony. The Bromfield team’s project “Harnessing the Sun” took first place among the 10 contesting teams and won a $3,000 cash prize.

It’s an old stereotype that teenagers have hearty appetites, but they are also bombarded with media messages about weight and appearance. Katelyn Russell recently co-authored an article about a curriculum that emphasizes healthy eating behaviors while avoiding a weight-centric approach to nutrition.

The town will not enter a lease agreement that would have allowed Solect Energy to construct solar panels on the town’s former gravel pit. Neither will the town’s solar overlay district be expanded from two to four lots.

Harvard Annual Town Meeting predates the American Revolution, but while clickers for voting and video projection of warrant articles are new, the concerns of citizens then and now are not.

Beginning with a slow trickle that grew unevenly throughout the day, voters made their way to the Hildreth Elementary School gym Tuesday to cast their ballots in the Town Election.

Jim and John Lee, brothers who grew up in Harvard and whose decades of volunteer service have made them among the most familiar and trusted figures in town, were named Harvard’s 2025 Citizens of Note at Town Meeting on May 2.

Passing the town’s fiscal 2027 budget requires two separate votes—one at Town Meeting and one at the polls—and both must pass by a majority vote.