On Nov. 7, approximately 30 community members braved the rain to attend an informational session on carbon pricing.

Department of Public Works Director Tim Kilhart appeared before the Planning Board at its Nov. 4 meeting to request site plan approval for the town center sidewalk plan. Around a dozen citizens also attended this meeting, all opposed to the proposed plan.

A new coalition formed by town center residents is calling on the town to reconsider a plan that would upgrade existing sidewalks and crosswalks in the town center, add a new sidewalk along Still River Road from the Congregational Church to the General Store, and specify entrance-exit points at the town-owned, General Store parking lot.”

The Select Board decided this week to move ahead with its quest for a cost estimate of the work required to connect Hildreth House with its proposed new addition.

Less than 10 years ago, enrollment in Harvard’s schools was declining, and in 2012 a special committee wrote a report projecting that a “modest but steady” decrease would continue for a decade. But at its Oct. 29 meeting, the School Committee heard new projections.

Among political scientists who have studied attendance at New England town meetings, one conclusion has proven inescapable: Controversy draws a crowd. And Monday night’s Special Town Meeting was a case in point.

Please keep your statements brief,” Moderator Bill Barton said—to little avail—as the 50-minute debate began over deer hunting on town conservation land.

Article 12, a request for money to do spring maintenance of town athletic fields, appeared to be headed nowhere. The Finance Committee was against it, the Select Board had requested it be withdrawn, and speakers were lining up to question the need.

The Planning Board’s four proposed zoning articles met with mixed results on the floor of Special Town Meeting.

A plan to upgrade existing sidewalks and crosswalks in the town center—and add a new sidewalk along Still River Road in front of the Congregational Church and General Store—is sparking pushback.

Warrant Article 21 proposes changes to the Ayer Road Village Special Permit bylaw that would make the bylaw more permissive, primarily by increasing the density of development allowed. Article 22 proposes changes to the allowed commercial uses and adds two entirely new uses. Article 20 updates the bylaw’s definitions section.

Parks and Recreation commissioners voted Monday night to spend most of the money left in their fields and commons budget for a study of the condition of the town’s athletic fields.

Funding for a water tank mixer and for the design of a chlorination system for the town’s two wells are both on the Special Town Meeting warrant. According to DPW Director Tim Kilhart, Harvard is one of the few towns in Massachusetts that still uses water that is not chlorinated.

A section of roof on the new library, built in 2007, is leaking. But the roof that is leaking is on the Old Bromfield school portion of the library, built in 1877, and its slate roof is original except for a few patches. That makes it over 140 years old.

The outlines of the new elementary school are slowly taking shape, replacing the giant excavation that marked the site all summer. The roof beams peeking above the construction fence form a familiar angle—one that residents saw in dozens of sketches before the 2018 Town Meeting vote.

The elevated walkway that connects the Bromfield School circle driveway with the upper floor of the middle school wing is “severely deteriorated,” according to a study Abacus Architects presented to the School Committee Oct. 15.