“Subdued” was the word of the night as the Select Board met Tuesday to choose materials and colors for the new sidewalks, crosswalks, and parking planned for the center of town.

The School Committee is seeking about $1.5 million for four separate capital improvement projects at the Bromfield School in fiscal 2021. The Capital Planning and Investment Committee considered those requests at its Monday meeting this week.

Faced with the options of either repairing or replacing the old library roof, the Select Board agreed at its Dec. 3 meeting that replacement would be the wiser choice.

Justifiable pride was the overall tone of the school achievement reports that principals Josh Myler and Scott Hoffman presented at the School Committee meeting this week.

The Select Board has approved a plan to rebuild and add sidewalks to the town center, reconfigure the crosswalks there, and redesign the town-owned parking lot at the General Store.

When Harvard property owners open their third-quarter tax bills in January, they’ll find the amount they owe has increased as the newly calculated fiscal 2020 tax rate takes effect.

The new Hildreth Elementary School will reach a significant point in its construction sometime early this month—the “topping-off” ceremony.

A growing presence within the community, Arm in Arm, Harvard’s diversity committee, has introduced a new initiative aimed at fostering conversation.

Bromfield’s one goal came late in the game, scored by Bromfield senior Eli Fishbein, but it was all that the Trojans needed to win their third straight MIAA Division 4 State Championship.

Earlier this week, Bromfield graduate Lily Moore-Eissenberg was named a Rhodes scholar, one of only 32 winners among 2,900 applicants from the United States to be so honored.

The Capital Planning and Investment Committee voted at its Nov. 24 meeting to recommend taking a total of $300,000 each from the Devens fund and the Capital Stabilization and Investment Funds to diminish the impact on taxes—for the first of five years—of excluded debt payments for the new elementary school.

There will soon be two proposals for the Hildreth House Phase 2 project—one from the Council on Aging for a $4.3 million freestanding dining/activity center, and one from the Select Board to add an enclosed connector that would allow people to walk between the new building and the existing Hildreth House without going outdoors.

Changes have been underway at Harvard Cable TV since summer, with new leadership and a somewhat different staff organization.

Engineering consulting firm Gale Associates has completed its evaluation of the existing condition of the old library’s roof, masonry walls, gutters, and downspouts, and the news is not good.

The Select Board has set a date of Tuesday, Dec. 3, to vote on a plan to upgrade existing sidewalks and crosswalks in the town center, add a new sidewalk along Still River Road in front of the Congregational Church and General Store, and redesign the store parking lot.

Who gets final say on plans to redo parking at the General Store and the sidewalks in the center of town? The answer, apparently, has been hiding in plain sight for more than a dozen years: It’s the Select Board, Town Counsel Mark Lanza declared last week.

School Superintendent Linda Dwight and business manager Aziz Aghayev presented the first draft of their fiscal 2021 budget to the School Committee at its Nov. 12 meeting. The proposed budget totals $14,375,380, an increase of $583,628—or 4.3%—over fiscal 2020.

So far, so good. That’s the word from Department of Public Works Director Tim Kilhart on the status of coliform tests on well #5, one of the two wells that supply the town’s public drinking water.