The Nashoba Valley Medical Center closed last Saturday, Aug. 31, after serving 16 central Massachusetts communities for more than 60 years. The hospital’s operator, Texas-based Steward Health Care, announced July 26 that it would close both Nashoba and Carney Hospital in Dorchester on the same day, giving barely 36 days notice.

No one is sure why, but the sewage pipes under the old library building, home to the community arts collaborative Fivesparks, are functioning again. The restrooms in the building have been reopened, and there are no further plans for investigation or repairs.

Just under a quarter of Harvard’s registered voters cast ballots in this year’s state primary election. And only a third of those who did vote cast their ballots in person last Tuesday at the new location in the Hildreth Elementary School gymnasium. 

Madison Price, the school psychologist for middle and high school students at Bromfield, says her profession has been largely motivated by personal experience: 

The new hire for Bromfield school adjustment counselor is Jennifer Schultz Bray, who has more than 25 years of clinical, administrative, and supervisory experience.

Hildreth Elementary School has two new specialists, Elizabeth Bala and Haley Lowney, joining the faculty this year. At Bromfield, Gerin Murphy and Kimberly Faulconer will join the faculty.