A recent legal review of the warrant article used at the 1983 Harvard Town Meeting to purchase the 30.33 acres of land on Depot Road indicates the parcel can be used for municipal purposes other than recreation.

MassDevelopment announced last week that Elite Home Builders has secured the financing needed to build a 46-unit apartment building at Emerson Green, after NOW Communities, the community’s designated developer, transferred development rights for the site to an Elite affiliate.

The Select Board has unveiled a list of alternative sites for a ground-mounted, 1.4-megawatt solar array that had originally been planned for the town’s former gravel pit on Stow Road.

Recreation Director Anne McWaters is “super pleased” with the current renovation of the McCurdy Track and the athletic field at Harvard Park.

A team of 16 volunteers is going street by street across Devens this summer, clipboards in hand, with a pitch that covers three separate registrations at once: signing up for Devens Connect, MassDevelopment’s voter rolls, and the voter rolls of Ayer, Harvard, or Shirley.

Harvard will share a $1 million grant with Ayer and Shirley to lay the groundwork for a shared power grid that would generate, distribute, and manage electricity—on or off the main grid and most likely for municipal buildings—for an estimated six participating towns.

A recent comprehensive site assessment of the town’s land on Depot Road confirmed that the old landfill boundary extends beneath approximately three-quarters of the Transfer Station and several Department of Public Works structures.

In a special meeting of the Bare Hill Pond Watershed Management Committee Monday evening, Aug. 10, committee members devoted more than 2 ½ hours to addressing public concerns and comments.

State Sen. Jamie Eldridge got an earful from Devens residents this month. Eldridge spent nearly an hour fielding questions from the Devens Committee and Devens residents at the committee’s Aug. 4 meeting.

MassDevelopment’s presentation to the Devens Committee last week confirmed what officials had signaled for months.

The House voted 148-2 Wednesday night, July 8, to pass the $425 million, 82-page  Mass Wins economic development bond bill, after the House Ways and Means Committee struck a provision that would have stripped Ayer, Harvard, and Shirley of their veto power over zoning changes at Devens.

“I leave with the fondest of memories and very good feelings about it all,” Dr. Linda Dwight said, sitting at her nearly bare desk on June 29, her next-to-last day as superintendent of schools for Harvard.

Negotiations between town officials and Solect Energy are continuing, with the latest plan extending the date by which a formal agreement must be signed to Aug. 30 from the previous July 4 deadline.

The town must cap the former Harvard landfill, and the work will force the Department of Public Works headquarters and the Transfer Station off their current site, Town Administrator Dawn Dunbar told the Select Board Tuesday night.

The low water level at Bare Hill Pond has garnered attention this spring, and at a well-attended June 25 Conservation Commission meeting, Bare Hill Pond Watershed Management Committee Chair Bruce Leicher updated the committee and the public on the state of the pond in a 10-minute slide presentation.