With barely four weeks remaining until Annual Town Meeting, the selectmen were forced to spend more than half of their penultimate public session this week dealing with a variety of licensing issues.

The word is in from the Bare Hill Pond Watershed Management Committee: There are lots of frogs in Bare Hill Pond this year, more than in any recent year.

Harvard police and emergency medical teams from Bolton, Harvard, and Ayer responded to an accident scene involving two motorcycles that collided on Prospect Hill Road Saturday around 3:30 p.m.

National Guard troops were called to Harvard Tuesday night to assist local emergency response teams in sandbagging the dam at Bare Hill Pond after torrential rains brought the pond’s water level to within 2 inches of the bottom of the dam’s spillway.

Board of Health Chairman Tom Philippou says that his board plans to seek advice from town counsel about further pursuing with the attorney general’s office the issue of funding for the nine-hour-per-week position of its administrative assistant.

Among the articles slated to appear on the warrant for Annual Town Meeting is one asking for the creation of a new Economic Development Committee to foster commercial development in town.

Shaker Place on Ayer Road will soon be one step closer to expanding its Acton Medical site, backed by the Board of Health at its March 23 meeting.

Annual Town Meeting voters will get to decide this spring whether to tax lodgers spending the night in a Harvard hotel room by as much a 6 percent.

The chairman of the committee overseeing construction of the new town center sewer system said this week that the town should “sit tight” until July before putting the project out to bid or applying for other funds.

Construction will begin in May on projects to treat the storm-water runoff that pollutes Bare Hill Pond, according to the Bare Hill Pond Watershed Management Committee.