Supporters and opponents of deer hunting gathered in upper Town Hall last week to hear the Deer Management Subcommittee’s final report on whether to allow bow hunting on some of Harvard’s conservation lands.

Harvard’s new finance director, Lori Bolasevich, is winning kudos from town officials for earning state certification of Harvard’s free cash earlier than any time in the past seven years.

Members of the public and the Agricultural Advisory Commission pushed back against the Planning Board’s proposed bylaw amendments at the board’s Sept. 9 public hearing.

Sticker shock for the Hildreth House Phase 2 addition is a bit less shocking this week.

One of the town’s two public drinking water wells will remain offline after it tested positive for coliform following a repair that had been designed to address the problem.

At long last, the old library passed final inspection Sept. 11 and received its certificate of occupancy later that evening.

"Hunting for news"

"Abuzz with information"

Former Harvard finance director

"Pearls of wisdom"

Bromfield graduate, nurse, antique collector

"Wind beneath our words"

"Just peachy"

Astrophysicist, author, man of eclectic interests

"As deep as a well"

"Our words are our bonds"

Harvard residents who may have switched to bottled water after hearing about the recent discovery of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in some of the town’s smaller public water supplies may now have another concern: the presence of PFAS in bottled water sold under various brand names at stores across Massachusetts.

At its July 18 meeting the School Building Committee learned that Shawmut, the school building project’s construction manager at risk, had proposed a guaranteed maximum price of $42,995,738 to construct the new Hildreth Elementary School. That amount is about $3,000 less than the construction budget specified in the agreement between the town and the Massachusetts School Building Authority.

Seventy-seven-year-old Albert Flick was convicted July 17 in Androscoggin County Superior Court in Auburn, Maine, for the murder of 48-year-old Kimberly Dobbie, a former Harvard resident.

Lifeguards reported a possible missing swimmer at Town Beach at 1:44 p.m. Wednesday, July 10. Two lifeguards had been watching a man swim laps away from shore and back. At some point, both saw the man swim out, but a few minutes later both realized that neither saw him swim back.

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"Hard news on tap"

Teacher, involved citizen, avid gardener

"Breaking new ground"

"On to b19ger things"