At Fall Town Meeting, Saturday, Oct. 1, at the Bromfield School, voters will be asked to approve seven articles put forward by the Select Board and other town committees.
Citing enough activities to be a small business, the Parks and Recreation Commission is asking the town to approve a new combined recreation and beach director position.
Townspeople may feel they have voted more often on the future of Bromfield House than on any other issue except possibly the town budget.
MassDevelopment CEO Dan Rivera appeared before the Select Boards of both Harvard and Ayer last week to explain why the agency had withdrawn from talks about the future of Devens and what support it would provide for those discussions in coming months and years.
The Common has gained a new, healthy evergreen tree, replacing the diseased blue spruce that served as the town’s holiday tree for the past five years.
The $1.3 million project to replace the old library roof and address other issues that were allowing water to leak into the building for years is nearly complete.
Residents and a handful of out-of-towners gathered in front of the Harvard Unitarian Universalist Church on the Common last Sunday to rally for women’s rights and continued access to women’s health and abortion services.
As the critical drought in Worcester County enters its third month, Harvard is seeking approval to authorize the Water Commission or the Board of Health to restrict nonessential outdoor water use for everyone, including private well owners.
Over the past few weeks national and local news outlets reported that election officials across the country are receiving identical public records requests regarding the 2020 election. Harvard is no exception.
Article 5 of the Fall Town Meeting warrant asks voters to change the way some town bylaws and regulations are enforced.
There may be only seven articles on the warrant for the Oct. 1 Town Meeting, but three of them have turned out to be contentious.
Should the town own the cell tower proposed on the Hildreth House property or just lease the land to another owner?
Legislation that would increase the total square footage of commercial development at Devens remained stalled in the state Legislature this week, with little likelihood of passage before the end of September.
On Thursday, Sept. 8, more than a dozen residents gathered on Zoom to review the Harvard Climate Initiative Committee’s presentation of a draft climate action plan.
Police Chief James Babu wants people to know about some ways families can help officers act quickly if someone is missing.
Tuesday’s much-needed rain was certainly good for Harvard’s forests, fields, and gardens, but it may have kept some voters away from the polls.
On July 25, School Superintendent Linda Dwight announced that before- and after-school care at Hildreth Elementary will move from the Bridges program to the national company AlphaBEST, at no increase in cost to Harvard families.
A series of posts on the social media site Nextdoor questioned why Shaker and South Shaker roads had recently been resurfaced with rubber chip seal instead of asphalt.
Voters at this year’s Fall Town Meeting will be asked to approve seven articles that range in scope from bills left unpaid in fiscal 2022 to a bylaw that would authorize the town in time of drought to restrict water use.