At Town Meeting Saturday, May 14, voters will be asked to approve 32 articles put forward by the Select Board and other town committees. The meeting is the first of two sessions, its agenda devoted primarily to financial matters. A second session will be convened in the fall.

Following two years of pandemic restraint, Harvard’s spending plan for fiscal 2023 seems built to make up for lost time. At Saturday’s Town Meeting, officials will ask attendees to approve significant boosts in spending.

 Don Ludwig and Charles Oliver have served together on the Finance Committee for the past five years, and Ludwig has been on FinCom for 10 years all together. Both candidates say they see the Select Board as a continuation—a logical next step—in their volunteer service to the town.

Superintendent Linda Dwight has chosen the two new principals who will be joining the Harvard schools’ leadership team as of July 1.

After searching in vain for a beach director for more than four months, the Parks and Recreation Commission is going with plan B—partnering with Marcus Lewis, who runs the beach program at Mirror Lake in Devens.

The Bromfield School again ranks among the top 10 public high schools in Massachusetts, according to the U.S. News & World Report list released in late April.

A three-building commercial complex has passed the initial hurdles of the application process on the path to receiving a permit for a mixed-use development across from Dunkin’ Donuts on Ayer Road and adjacent to Harvard Green condominiums.

As terms for many of Harvard’s volunteer board and committee members near their end dates, the Select Board is left with the daunting task of filling the seats of those who do not wish to serve again.

The state reported six new COVID-19 cases in Harvard for the week ending April 30, the same number of cases reported the previous week, bringing the town’s cumulative number of state-reported cases since the pandemic began to 611.