The Bromfield Mirror, the school’s student newspaper, tackled the local side of a national problem in its most recent edition. Some Bromfield students face sexual harassment, the Mirror reported, and they often feel school authorities don’t do enough to halt it.

A major report on the elementary school project, sent to the Massachusetts School Building Authority early in December, fell short of the MSBA’s expectations, according to the authority’s written response.

MassDevelopment has hired Jessica Strunkin, formerly of 495/MetroWest Partnership, as its new senior vice president of operations for Devens, where she began work Feb. 11.

Department of Public Works Director Tim Kilhart told the Select Board at its Feb. 4 meeting that the town received a $370,000 grant from the state’s Complete Streets Funding Program for new and refurbished sidewalks in the center of town.

Orchards, farms, forests, bees, livestock—what risks does climate change pose to each of these elements of Harvard’s agricultural landscape? That was the topic of the first of two workshops, this one held in upper Town Hall Feb. 2.

Presented with a draft fiscal 2020 budget that is in deficit by several hundred thousand dollars, the Select Board voted Tuesday night to send the unbalanced package to the Finance Committee, leaving it to FinCom’s seven appointed members to recommend next steps, including a possible Proposition 2½ general tax override.

Returning to its one remaining request for fiscal 2020 money, the Capital Planning and Investment Committee recommended last week that $100,000 be transferred from the town’s capital fund to the Conservation Commission to help purchase more than 23 acres of conservation land in Still River.