With the bowhunting season for deer scheduled to open in October, the Conservation Commission heard a report on this year’s plans at its Sept. 1 meeting. 

The  School Committee's plans to modify Harvard’s fields into adequate facilities for the town’s softball players have been approved by another committee.

Harvard has joined other towns in Massachusetts in renaming Columbus Day.

A Tyngsborough-based development company has submitted paperwork to the state signaling its intention to build  24 homes in 12 duplex buildings at the corner of Old Mill and Ayer roads. Juno Construction LLC purchased the 11 wooded acres—including a pond and wetlands—this month. 

The Select Board unveiled a draft change to Harvard’s bylaws Tuesday night that would allow the board to issue one-year entertainment licenses to area farms. 

Harvard’s percentage of affordable housing stands at 5.8%, short of the state-mandated goal of 10%, the point at which a town has the authority to turn down proposed 40B projects. Leading the effort to get to that number is the Municipal Affordable Housing Trust.

This is the final edition of the Press’s long-running COVID-19 update column, which the Press will retire this week.

Fort Devens Day, a celebration of the 105th anniversary of the U.S. Army’s presence at Devens, drew an estimated 1,500 veterans, area residents, and soldiers to the Main Post at Devens last Saturday.

In the hallways and in their classrooms next week, students will notice some new faces among the faculty. Eight new educators will join Hildreth Elementary School and the Bromfield School this year, five at HES and three at Bromfield.

With Fall Town Meeting rapidly approaching, the possibility of approving an overlay district that would allow the General Store and Fivesparks to renew their entertainment licenses next year is getting slimmer.

On Tuesday, Sept. 6, Harvard voters will participate in statewide primary elections, helping to shape the November general election and define Massachusetts leadership in the coming years.

COVID-19 is still much on the minds of teachers and administrators in the Harvard school system. Superintendent Linda Dwight presented a newly updated set of guidelines at Monday’s School Committee meeting.

In an effort to provide Harvard’s softball players with the facilities they will need in the spring, the School Committee voted at its Aug. 22 meeting to spend up to $70,000.

After 34 years as Harvard’s health agent, Nashoba Associated Boards of Health employee Ira Grossman is retiring at the end of this month. 

The state reported one new COVID-19 case in Harvard for the week ending Aug. 13, bringing the town’s cumulative number of state-reported cases since the pandemic began to 750. 

Over the past few years, Harvard’s once-sleepy town center has come alive with a multitude of cultural events, but a zoning issue that the town was ignorant of until recently is threatening to put an end to that.

A new application from local developer Lou Russo does not, after all, make any mention of the 250-unit assisted and senior-care living center discussed at length at a Planning Board meeting last month. 

When Sheila Anderson of Still River called 911 on July 17 to report her daughter Mary was missing, Harvard police went into action immediately.

At the Capital Planning and Investment Committee’s Aug. 15 meeting members voted Nate Finch as chair for the second year in a row.

The state reported five new COVID-19 cases in Harvard for the week ending Aug. 6, bringing the town’s cumulative number of state-reported cases since the pandemic began to 749.