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Friday, May 18, 2012
Volume 6, Number 26
"Getting our ducks in a row"


"Jonathan's Digressions"

 
"My Real Life"

 
"Retirement Your Way"
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Breaking News

Traditionally, Harvard’s senior veterans who are unable to navigate the sometimes treacherous slopes of the Town Center Cemetery for the Memorial Day tributes have been transported in golf carts. In the past, a local golf club, which is no longer operating, would donate those carts for the parade. This year, however, Harvard’s veterans’ services agent Dennis Lyddy has so far been unable to locate a replacement donor.


Breaking News

At their first meeting following town elections, the Board of Selectmen Tuesday night elected Lucy Wallace as their chairman for the coming year.


One lucky duck!

Still River Road resident Rob Traver tosses away a rosebush and searches out more multiflora rose to root out on a path on the Clapp-Scorgie-Tufts-Smith land during the Conservation Trust’s annual trail cleanup day, May 6. Traver commented that in addition to helping out the Trust, he had a personal reason to clean up the trail: he likes to run on the trail and doesn’t like getting captured by the brambles. (Photo by Lisa Aciukewicz)
Pat Magnus lifts the winning duck out of the water as John Gervais prepares to catch it during the Ayer-Harvard-Shirley Rotary Club’s Ducky Wucky race on the Nashua River.  (Photo by Lisa Aciukewicz)  STORY AND LIST OF WINNERS
 
News

In response to declining enrollment, the Harvard school district will offer a full-day preschool option next school year, combining the two half-day sessions it currently offers into one class.

Contrary to previous estimates, crews will not finish work until mid-July on the treatment plant that will handle waste from Harvard's new town center sewer system.

Piali De spoke with the Press about the changes she has seen in the school system and the challenges that face Harvard schools today.


 
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Sports

The Bromfield boys outdoor track team broke five school records in the process of securing the district title Saturday, May 12.

The Lady Trojans placed first in four events and second overall out of 13 teams at the district E, class C outdoor track meet on May 5.

The Bromfield Acton-Boxborough rowers spent the weekend at the Lowell Invitational Regatta getting a good look at the competition they will face at the Massachusetts Public School Championships.


Features

Owners of early 19th- century homes in Harvard should proceed carefully if they decide to remove decades of old wallpaper.

This year, for the first time, the Bromfield Senior Art show is being held at an off-campus site.


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