The Finance Committee voted unanimously Tuesday afternoon to recommend the Select Board’s proposed fiscal 2027 budget, but much of the discussion centered on a five-year forecast that projects the town’s currently balanced budget sliding into a structural deficit of more than $5 million by fiscal 2031.

Lead consultant Jonathan Charwick, of the landscape architecture and engineering firm Activitas Inc., has recommended Cataldo Construction as the company to reconstruct McCurdy Track and the soccer field at Harvard Park.

Toting protest signs while bundled in parkas, gloves, and winter hats, roughly 300 people flooded the Common this past Saturday, March 28, to take part in the third No Kings Rally, a national movement that addresses a wide range of grievances with the second Trump administration.

The Department of Public Works director continues to implement changes by hiring a director of operations and promoting one of its longtime employees into the vacant role of working foreman.

For the first time in seven years, the Select Board is considering raising both the Transfer Station annual sticker fee and the price of bags to cover past and future costs associated with the old landfill.

Because a toxic class of chemicals has leaked from the former Harvard landfill into the well water of homes on and near Depot Road, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection ordered the town last year to provide remediation.

Earlier this month Police Chief James Babu announced the Harvard Police Department has been awarded $127,716 through the state’s grant program for body-worn cameras.

A planning timeline presented at Tuesday’s meeting of the Harvard-Devens Jurisdiction Committee estimates that reaching consensus on the future of Devens and delivering the study required by state law could take as long as six years.

The Select Board voted unanimously Tuesday to appoint Assistant Town Administrator Dawn Dunbar as Harvard’s interim town administrator at a salary of $164,000, filling the vacancy created by the resignation of Dan Nason.

The Select Board on Tuesday closed the warrant for Harvard’s May 2 Annual Town Meeting, approving a 31-article agenda and a fiscal 2027 budget of $36,731,872.

With eight positions opening on Harvard’s town boards for the May 5 election, only seven candidates had taken out nomination papers by the March 13 deadline.

For the second time in four years, the Harvard Press won first place among small New England weeklies for general excellence in the annual Better Newspaper Competition hosted by the New England Newspaper & Press Association.

After months of budget negotiations that began with a projected deficit of $1.6 million, the Select Board on Tuesday voted unanimously to approve a fiscal 2027 budget of $36,731,872 that includes a Proposition 2½ override of $135,370.

The long-planned renovation of Ayer Road advanced Tuesday evening as the Select Board approved some paperwork to realign two accident-prone intersections.

Harvard’s Capital Planning and Investment Committee voted unanimously at its Feb. 26 meeting to approve two public safety vehicle purchases: a new police cruiser and a plow truck for the Department of Public Works.

A recent discussion among Harvard residents on the social media site Nextdoor showed road salt is an issue for many people in town.