The House voted 148-2 Wednesday night, July 8, to pass the $425 million, 82-page  Mass Wins economic development bond bill, after the House Ways and Means Committee struck a provision that would have stripped Ayer, Harvard, and Shirley of their veto power over zoning changes at Devens.

“I leave with the fondest of memories and very good feelings about it all,” Dr. Linda Dwight said, sitting at her nearly bare desk on June 29, her next-to-last day as superintendent of schools for Harvard.

Negotiations between town officials and Solect Energy are continuing, with the latest plan extending the date by which a formal agreement must be signed to Aug. 30 from the previous July 4 deadline.

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.