A sighting of the rare northern three-toed woodpecker in Harvard drew birdwatchers to town from as far away as Connecticut and New York.
Citing a history of declining enrollment in the high school music program, the School Committee decided to cut a position on the music staff.
At a Special Town Meeting, the town voted 21 to 3 to petition the state legislature to exempt Harvard from including residents of Fort Devens on the town’s street list and from creating voting precincts for them.
An editorial opined that the less the town relied on road salt to keep roads clear in winter, the better off it would be.
A front-page article on affordable housing observed that, “Over a period of more than 20 years, committees to study the need for affordable and/or elderly housing have come and gone, with little to show for their efforts except a few apartments owned by the Harvard Conservation Trust and an elderly apartment building constructed by a private development company.”
The school department announced that it planned to balance the next year’s budget by cutting funding for Bromfield student extra-curricular activities and athletics by two thirds.
Based on reports in the old Harvard Post