Hildreth Elementary School will be installing a video monitoring system with a buzzer for the front door to give the school staff better control over who enters the building.

The Joint Boards of Selectmen will continue to meet to discuss plans for the Devens Regional Enterprise Zone, but, after a vote last week, with significantly fewer members.

The Harvard Conservation Commission voted unanimously at its Sept. 23 meeting to ask the Community Preservation Committee for $50,000 to support a three-year program to combat the invasive weeds.

The Devens Economic Analysis Team reported to Selectmen this week the results of its investigation into the financial impact of a plan by Boston-based developer Trinity Financial to convert four historic buildings currently zoned as a technology center at Vicksburg Square into residential housing.

Selectmen declined this week to respond to a request by owner Robert Hirsch for permission to sell hard liquor at the Grapevine on Ayer Road.

Despite Ayer Selectman Frank Maxant's recent comment that "the highest use of Vicksburg Square is as a brick quarry," the buildings there are protected from being torn down by their listing on the National Historic Register.

With the deadline for signed contracts fast approaching, the Solarize Mass/Harvard pilot project pace has quickened. Harvard residents have added 50 percent more solar photovoltaic systems to the town's project total since the beginning of the month.

Although Town Meeting overwhelmingly approved a request this spring for money to fund plans for the renovation of Town Hall and Hildreth House, one selectman has continued to object to the manner in which his colleagues conducted and reported their deliberations on the matter.

As part of a four-pronged exploration of "different administrative organizational models," interim Superintendent Joe Connelly has begun researching the possibility of Harvard sharing certain administrative positions and their costs with nearby school districts.

Harvard school officials plan to meet with representatives of the town's Parks and Recreation department and the old library Pilot Project in an effort to revitalize the district's Community Education program.