The Finance Committee voted unanimously Tuesday afternoon to recommend the Select Board’s proposed fiscal 2027 budget, but much of the discussion centered on a five-year forecast that projects the town’s currently balanced budget sliding into a structural deficit of more than $5 million by fiscal 2031.

Lead consultant Jonathan Charwick, of the landscape architecture and engineering firm Activitas Inc., has recommended Cataldo Construction as the company to reconstruct McCurdy Track and the soccer field at Harvard Park.

Toting protest signs while bundled in parkas, gloves, and winter hats, roughly 300 people flooded the Common this past Saturday, March 28, to take part in the third No Kings Rally, a national movement that addresses a wide range of grievances with the second Trump administration.

The Department of Public Works director continues to implement changes by hiring a director of operations and promoting one of its longtime employees into the vacant role of working foreman.

For the first time in seven years, the Select Board is considering raising both the Transfer Station annual sticker fee and the price of bags to cover past and future costs associated with the old landfill.

Because a toxic class of chemicals has leaked from the former Harvard landfill into the well water of homes on and near Depot Road, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection ordered the town last year to provide remediation.

Earlier this month Police Chief James Babu announced the Harvard Police Department has been awarded $127,716 through the state’s grant program for body-worn cameras.

A planning timeline presented at Tuesday’s meeting of the Harvard-Devens Jurisdiction Committee estimates that reaching consensus on the future of Devens and delivering the study required by state law could take as long as six years.

The Select Board voted unanimously Tuesday to appoint Assistant Town Administrator Dawn Dunbar as Harvard’s interim town administrator at a salary of $164,000, filling the vacancy created by the resignation of Dan Nason.