Friday, October 4, 2024

Two-hour Town Meeting passes all warrant articles by clear majorities

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. 

Friday, October 4, 2024

Gov. Healey announces working group to ‘revitalize’ health care in Nashoba Valley region, offers grants to ambulance services

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. 

Friday, October 4, 2024

Select Board delays funding for opioid prevention video

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.

Friday, October 4, 2024

While the rest of the state frets over MCAS results, Harvard’s superintendent is proud

Statewide results were posted last week for the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) exams that were administered in the spring of this year. 

Friday, October 4, 2024

O’Connell steps down as interim MassDevelopment CEO

For the second time in five months, MassDevelopment has a new interim president and CEO.

Friday, September 27, 2024

Warrant in Plain English: 2024 Fall Town Meeting

At the second session of Harvard’s Annual Town Meeting Saturday, Sept. 28, voters will be asked to approve 13 articles. 

Friday, September 27, 2024

Articles 11 and 12: Schools say new accounts would capture fees and help fund special education

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.

Friday, September 27, 2024

Article 13: Adopting the specialized energy code would add standards for new mixed-fuel homes, present grant opportunities

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.

Friday, September 27, 2024

After seven years with the town, DPW Director Tim Kilhart to retire

Tim Kilhart, director of Harvard’s Department of Public Works for the past seven years, will retire effective Nov. 1.

Friday, September 27, 2024

School Committee in ‘fact-finding mode’ for potential land swap deal for athletic field

A new proposal could help solve Harvard’s athletic field deficiency with a three-way land swap deal.

Friday, September 27, 2024

‘We’re more than just a TV station’; Harvard cable TV is now Harvard Media Cooperative

Harvard’s decades-old community access TV department has a new name and logo. 

Friday, September 27, 2024

Town will lose Board of Health clerk Alison Flynn next month

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.

Friday, September 27, 2024

Finance Committee calls for level-service budgets for FY26

As residents prepared to gather for the second session of 2024 Annual Town Meeting this Saturday, budgeting for fiscal 2026 was already underway.

Friday, September 27, 2024

Commuter rail shuttle remains nearly empty despite new park-and-ride spaces

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.

Friday, September 27, 2024

Pond drawdown begins Oct. 1

The annual drawdown of Bare Hill Pond is scheduled to begin next Tuesday, Oct. 1.

Friday, September 20, 2024

Select Board supports all but two articles on Town Meeting warrant

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.

Friday, September 20, 2024

Swimming remains off limits for people and pets at town beach as algae bloom thickens

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.

Friday, September 20, 2024

Devens PFAS plumes moving toward Harvard; Army installs monitoring wells

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.

Friday, September 13, 2024

State raises threat of EEE to ‘high’ in Harvard and five nearby towns

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. 

Friday, September 13, 2024

MassDevelopment wants to build Devens housing in areas already zoned for it, says interim CEO

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.

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