Like all major life transitions, moving presents challenges and opportunities. The best way to make the move a positive one is to acknowledge both.

After long hours of preparation and intense rehearsals, the Bromfield Drama Society presented Getting Out in a free performance for residents Tuesday, February 13.

It all started with butter and eggs. In the early 1900s, a man named Charles Clark came to Harvard by train to sell butter and eggs to the Gale and Dickson general store in the town center. And because he did, a little girl named Janet Streeter grew up loving her summer vacations on Sheep Island in Bare Hill Pond.

After being lost in the White Mountains in freezing temperatures, Old Littleton Road resident John Ford is happy to be alive, and he wants to spread the message that being well-prepared for any outdoor outing is literally a life-or-death proposition.

With teachers walking picket lines, the atmosphere at the schools deteriorating, and Harvard voters facing a possible $1,000,000 override this spring, to say that parents of Harvard students are concerned is something of an understatement.

While I can appreciate the perception, I must admit I grow weary hearing people bemoan that “there’s no place to eat around here.”

When he retired from his position as an engineer at Raytheon, John Zimmer never lost an engineer’s need to create something useful as well as handsome.

 by Greg Schmidt