With budgets bedded down and Annual Town Meeting less than two weeks away, the one remaining uncertainty is, what will the state provide in local aid?

Harvard teachers voted earlier this week to ratify a new one-year contract, bringing the town budget for fiscal 2011 closer to final form.

The School Committee is deeply split over Superintendent Thomas Jefferson’s job performance, as indicated by the widely diverging evaluations he received at the committee’s April 12 meeting.

Stu Sklar and Kirsten Wright, the two candidates for School Committee, don’t agree on support for a Proposition 2½ override this year to reduce the burden of school activity user fees on families.

On Tuesday, selectmen issued this statement, announcing a major change in the health insurance it offers to town employees.

More than three weeks before the May 1 Annual Town Meeting, union contracts have been settled, the budget is set, and warrant articles are sequenced with Finance Committee recommendations.

At the Annual Town Meeting in May there will be three warrant articles proposed by the Planning Board. One would limit drive-through establishments in town; the other two amount to “housekeeping” changes.

Costs of sewer and road improvements required for the development of the Ayer Road commercial district remained elusive at the April 13 Economic Development Analysis Team forum at Volunteers Hall.

“The budget is balanced,” Town Administrator Tim Bragan announced at a combined meeting of the Board of Selectmen, School Committee, and Finance Committee (so-called “tri-board”) on Saturday morning.

Sparks flew briefly Tuesday evening when the Board of Selectmen (BOS) voted 3-2 to remove an article from the Annual Town Meeting (ATM) warrant that would have authorized Harvard to tax hotels by as much as 6 percent.