Voters at Tuesday’s Town Election approved two ballot questions, but rejected a third, and returned incumbent moderator Bill Barton to office for a three-year term.

MassDevelopment, the state agency responsible for the commercial and residential development of Devens, signaled last week it is ready to work with the Devens Jurisdiction Framework Committee to increase housing at Vicksburg Square, site of an iconic quadrangle of Army barracks.

Barbi Kelley, longtime physical education teacher in Harvard, has received the Joseph McKenney Award for distinguished service from the Massachusetts Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance.

At Annual Town Meeting Saturday, April 6, voters will be asked to approve 26 articles. The warrant—the meeting’s agenda—is devoted primarily to financial matters. A second Town Meeting is usually convened in the fall to consider changes to the town’s bylaws as well as pressing financial decisions that can’t wait until spring 2025.

It’s a simple story, though its telling is worthy of a Dickens novel. To quote Wilkins Micawber in “David Copperfield,” “Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.”

The annual Town Election will be held Tuesday, April 9, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., in the Bromfield School cafeteria. Residents will vote for five positions: Select Board, moderator, library trustee, School Committee, and Warner Free Lecture trustee. Additionally, there will be two questions on the ballot, one regarding a DPW building project, and the other regarding a budget override.

Readers who seek a one-page overview of the fiscal 2025 budget—and assurance that it balances—should turn to Harvard’s five-year budgeted revenue and expense projection, sometimes referred to as the “recap.”

Article 22 asks voters whether Harvard should designate an 8-acre overlay district on Ayer Road where multifamily homes could be built by right. To create the zone, a new bylaw must be passed by two-thirds vote.

Ever think about leaving the rusted-out 1983 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme that your grandmother left you in the parking lot at the town beach after dark and walking away? Article 21 may make you think twice.