The Select Board is considering next steps as it evaluates two iterations of a water and sewer plan for the town’s multifamily district on Ayer Road. Portland, Maine-based engineering firm Woodard & Curran presented the town with two plans.

A towering elm near the library was felled by a work crew from Favreau Forestry of Sterling last week, because rot detected at the tree’s base made it unsafe for the heavily used public area.

The School Committee voted unanimously at its meeting April 13 to hire Molly Superchi as the district’s new assistant superintendent, with a three-year contract starting July 1.

Voting “yes” on articles 25, 26, and 27 at the May 2 Town Meeting would update Harvard’s 16-year-old bylaw regulating ground-mounted solar installations and would let the town continue negotiating with a solar developer to create a new 1.4 MW solar farm on town-owned land.

Tensions over Harvard’s perceived approach to the future governance of Devens spilled into the April 8 quarterly meeting of the Devens Jurisdiction Framework Committee, fueling an hour-long discussion on the differing roles of the framework and town committees.

Harvard residents will pay more for Transfer Station access and town trash bags starting this month, after the Select Board concluded that current fees do not fully cover the cost of operating the facility and disposing of trash.

MassDevelopment’s newly appointed Executive Vice President of Devens Operations Michael Sweeney made his first appearance before the Devens Committee at its April 1 meeting, joining its five members and a smattering of attendees via Zoom.