A recent legal review of the warrant article used at the 1983 Harvard Town Meeting to purchase the 30.33 acres of land on Depot Road indicates the parcel can be used for municipal purposes other than recreation.

MassDevelopment announced last week that Elite Home Builders has secured the financing needed to build a 46-unit apartment building at Emerson Green, after NOW Communities, the community’s designated developer, transferred development rights for the site to an Elite affiliate.

The Select Board has unveiled a list of alternative sites for a ground-mounted, 1.4-megawatt solar array that had originally been planned for the town’s former gravel pit on Stow Road.

Recreation Director Anne McWaters is “super pleased” with the current renovation of the McCurdy Track and the athletic field at Harvard Park.

A team of 16 volunteers is going street by street across Devens this summer, clipboards in hand, with a pitch that covers three separate registrations at once: signing up for Devens Connect, MassDevelopment’s voter rolls, and the voter rolls of Ayer, Harvard, or Shirley.

Harvard will share a $1 million grant with Ayer and Shirley to lay the groundwork for a shared power grid that would generate, distribute, and manage electricity—on or off the main grid and most likely for municipal buildings—for an estimated six participating towns.

A recent comprehensive site assessment of the town’s land on Depot Road confirmed that the old landfill boundary extends beneath approximately three-quarters of the Transfer Station and several Department of Public Works structures.

In a special meeting of the Bare Hill Pond Watershed Management Committee Monday evening, Aug. 10, committee members devoted more than 2 ½ hours to addressing public concerns and comments.