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.

State Sen. Jamie Eldridge got an earful from Devens residents this month. Eldridge spent nearly an hour fielding questions from the Devens Committee and Devens residents at the committee’s Aug. 4 meeting.

MassDevelopment’s presentation to the Devens Committee last week confirmed what officials had signaled for months.

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.