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.
Tim Kilhart, director of Harvard’s Department of Public Works for the past seven years, will retire effective Nov. 1.
A new proposal could help solve Harvard’s athletic field deficiency with a three-way land swap deal.
Harvard’s decades-old community access TV department has a new name and logo.
Alison Flynn has provided administrative support to the Board of Health for the past seven years, but that will all come to an end in mid-October.
As residents prepared to gather for the second session of 2024 Annual Town Meeting this Saturday, budgeting for fiscal 2026 was already underway.
According to weekly numbers supplied by MART, in the two months since parking spaces were made available, the shuttle still typically has no riders in the morning and only one rider in the evening.
The annual drawdown of Bare Hill Pond is scheduled to begin next Tuesday, Oct. 1.
The Select Board made quick work of recommending most of the 13 articles on the warrant for the second session of Annual Town Meeting, to be held in the Bromfield School’s Cronin Auditorium at noon, Sept. 28.
Swimming at the town beach remained off limits for people and pets this week as a late-summer algae bloom thickened and visibility remained unacceptably low.
The former Fort Devens Restoration Advisory Board met Sept. 12 to give an update on the Army’s investigation of the source and extent of two “plumes” emanating from three known sites near Barnum Road contaminated with PFAS.
On Sept. 5, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health raised the risk level for Eastern equine encephalitis to “high” in Harvard and the Middlesex County towns of Ayer, Boxborough, Acton, Littleton, and Carlisle.
If Gov. Maura Healey’s economic development bill passes later this month with its provisions for more housing at Devens, the state will seek to build first in areas already zoned for residential development, not in Vicksburg Square—which is not.