The town must cap the former Harvard landfill, and the work will force the Department of Public Works headquarters and the Transfer Station off their current site, Town Administrator Dawn Dunbar told the Select Board Tuesday night.

The low water level at Bare Hill Pond has garnered attention this spring, and at a well-attended June 25 Conservation Commission meeting, Bare Hill Pond Watershed Management Committee Chair Bruce Leicher updated the committee and the public on the state of the pond in a 10-minute slide presentation.

At a June 24 hearing, the Select Board declared a 3-year-old German shepherd named Ranger met the legal standard of a dangerous dog, having seriously bitten a woman in May.

Longtime Town Hall employee Julie Doucet has been promoted to the position of assistant town administrator and human resources director, assuming the dual role as of July 1.

Harvard’s town charter has no way to remove an elected official who has lost the public’s confidence. That gap, and several other issues, are before a nine-member review committee working toward proposed changes for Town Meeting in the spring of 2027.

Dawn Dunbar’s new office at Town Hall is easily twice the size of the one she occupied as Harvard’s assistant town administrator. She is still settling in.

This week, Harvard lost a farmhouse that had stood near town center for more than 200 years. The house at 87 Ayer Road, which had long been uninhabitable, was demolished, leaving only its chimney standing.

A provision in Gov. Maura Healey’s economic development bill would remove Harvard, Ayer, and Shirley from any formal governing role over zoning changes at Devens, replacing their three-town approval process with a single meeting run by MassDevelopment.

The Select Board voted unanimously Tuesday night to appoint Dawn Dunbar as Harvard’s town administrator, capping a three-month term as interim town administrator that began after the previous administrator, Dan Nason, resigned in February.