Boxborough police requested the assistance of Harvard police just before 5 p.m last Wednesday at the scene of a helicopter crash on Beaver Brook Road in Boxborough.

Residents in Harvard, Ayer, Bolton, Devens, and Shirley, along with those in other communities in Massachusetts, Maine, and New Hampshire, flooded their local fire departments with calls Monday, reporting the strong smell of smoke.

Responding to an informal request by MassDevelopment (MassDev), the attorney general’s office said this week it would advise MassDev on whether it has the authority to join a regional mosquito control program without the approval of towns that abut its boundaries.

In its first regular meeting since the return of newly elected Chairman Peter Warren from vacation, the Board of Selectmen cleared the way Tuesday for Harvard to issue a liquor license to the owner of the Harvard Plaza on Ayer Road to sell beer and wine.

Harvard Schools Superintendent Thomas Jefferson, in a phone interview with the Press Wednesday, confirmed that Hildreth Elementary School Principal Mary Beth Banios will be leaving her position.

After a near-unanimous Annual Town Meeting vote to spend $5,655 of Community Preservation Commission’s funds to hire a preservationist to advise the Historical Commissio and the Cemetery Commission (HCC) on a Shaker burial ground restoration project, HCC Chairman Bruce Dolimount has changed his mind and no longer supports the project.

As budget pressures abated this spring, with both state aid at higher levels than expected and funds previously earmarked for athletics user fees being freed up, Schools Superintendent Thomas Jefferson reconsidered reinstating the leadership position for the world languages department at Bromfield

In a roundabout endorsement that seems to raise as many issues as it resolves, the Harvard Board of Selectmen (BOS) said two weeks ago that it “has no objection”—contingent on two key conditions being met—to a request by Devens homeowners to join a state mosquito control program.

The Joint Boards of Selectmen (JBOS) decided at its May 13 meeting to make an appeal to Governor Deval Patrick’s office on the latest topic of concern related to Devens disposition

On May 4, Joe Sudol, chairman of Harvard Green Board of Trustees, accepted the Public Drinking Water Award at the State House in Boston.