The School Committee was scheduled to vote on its fiscal 2024 budget Monday, but when the committee reached that point in its agenda, Chair Abby Besse said, “I am concerned that we cannot make properly informed budget decisions tonight.” 

During the Select Board meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 6, members unanimously voted to adopt the Climate Action Plan, which identifies climate change challenges relevant to Harvard and how to address them. They then examined the framework of an implementation plan put forth by the Harvard Climate Initiative Committee.

Tuesday’s announcement that researchers at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory had sparked a fusion reaction that released more energy than the amount used to ignite it drew wows from scientists, government officials, and reporters. But the milestone will have little impact on the work being done by Commonwealth Fusion Systems at Devens.