During the winter and early spring of 2007, we focused on strengthening the paper's content.We had welcome help from two former editors of the old Harvard Post, Ann Levison and Connie Larrabee.

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Tomatoes are a huge thing in our family.  The tomatoes that John and I grew ten years ago died frightful deaths in spite of our spending at least twenty minutes a day lovingly flooding them with water.   One of the first things my mother asked for when she arrived at our house a few months ago was "Where can I plant a tomato plant?".  John has alwa... Read More

In 1973, a locally owned independent weekly newspaper, the Harvard Post, was started by Kathleen Cushman and Ed Miller (authors of How to Produce a Small Newspaper, Harvard Common Press, 1978) with a goal of “bringing the community together while reflecting the individualism that makes Harvard so special.”

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Last Saturday, May 9, 2009, we (Joe D'eramo, Jim Phelan, John Martin and his son Jared, Steve Abrams, Carolena McCauley, Sharon McCullough, my husband John and I) dredged the spring and installed the water pump in preparation for the upcoming growing season.  It was a mild but overcast day and the air smelled of rain, so I packed my raincoat.  We donned appr... Read More

I'm Worth Robbins, part owner of The Harvard Press LLC, which publishes The Harvard Press, the locally owned independent newspaper of the town of Harvard, MA. My partners and I intend to blog about the economics of delivering local news to Harvard, population about 6,000, 35 miles west of Boston.

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Hello, my name is Katy Sharko. I'll bet you're wondering what I'm doing here. After all, I'm wondering the same thing myself. I've never grown an edible thing in my entire life, unless you count the sickly handful of tomato plants my husband John and I planted 10 years ago that eventually were consumed by the tomato blight that plagued them. I'll be completely honest... Read More