The May 29 email letter from school administrators to students’ families was titled “Serious Information,” and the letter’s content justified the heading.

As each of the 351 towns in Massachusetts try to figure out how to spend their share of the state’s $946 million in opioid settlement funds, Harvard’s Board of Health is proposing that it take a leadership role in this town’s spending recommendations. 

Longtime Harvard resident Sharon McCarthy, who currently chairs the Board of Health and has served on multiple town boards and committees over the years, will move to Woods Hole in a few weeks.