Eighty-two members of the Bromfield School Class of 2026 received their diplomas Friday afternoon, June 5, in an annual ritual held rain-free on the school’s athletic field.

As this school year draws to a close, the School Committee is taking steps to prepare for the new school year that will start next fall.

Things are about to get dirty for the volunteer-led organization installing a pump track in the woods behind McCurdy Track on Lancaster County Road. After four years of planning, efforts to clear the area to construct the pump track are underway.

At its annual goal-setting retreat, held June 9 on the porch of Hildreth House, the Harvard Select Board elected SusanMary Redinger to chair the town’s executive committee for the coming year.

This year’s graduates entered school near Harvard’s peak. The classes behind them are smaller.

The Harvard Select Board voted unanimously Tuesday night to approve a $1 million investment by the town’s Municipal Affordable Housing Trust to subsidize 12 affordable apartments in a 46-unit rental complex being built at Emerson Green in Devens.

The Harvard Select Board met Tuesday night with a KP Law attorney to sharpen a letter opposing a provision of Gov. Maura Healey’s Mass Wins bill that would give MassDevelopment sole authority to propose changes to Devens zoning bylaws.

The town will not apply for a grant to bring water and sewer to its multifamily district—at least not now. So said the Select Board.

Nearly two years after Nashoba Valley Medical Center closed, local ambulances are driving longer distances to reach emergency rooms, families are facing six-month waits for mental health therapists, and seniors are traveling further to reach doctors who used to be nearby.

The skies wept as this year’s Memorial Day ceremonies got underway. Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Jon Schoenberg, master of ceremonies, scrolled through radar images on his phone looking for a break in the rain that blanketed the area.

While the spring weather continues to bring early winter-like conditions to Harvard, town officials are gearing up for the summer season at Bare Hill Pond. Beach staffing, boat storage, and resource management have been at the forefront of Park and Rec Director Anne McWaters’ and Harbormaster Ben Baron’s minds for months.

Minco Corporation wants to build 234 rental apartments in the town’s multifamily district at the intersection of Route 2 and Ayer Road, but it needs state grants to afford the development’s expensive water and sewer system.

Volunteers for the annual townwide cleanup in April learned exactly what ends up along Harvard’s roadsides, trails, and public spaces over the course of a year: a little bit of everything.

For nearly two years, the story of healthcare in the Nashoba Valley has been defined by what the region lost. A new regional health study says the problem is bigger—and older—than that.

The town will welcome a new director of economic and community development, a position vacant since Chris Ryan left that post in 2022.

more than 20 years, Harvard has offered elderly or disabled homeowners help in paying their property tax bills. This year, applications for that assistance are due to the town treasurer by May 28.