On Wednesday, June 29, approximately 30 demonstrators gathered at noon on the Common to peacefully protest the overruling of Roe v. Wade. 

With a stroke of his pen this week, Judge Geoffrey German put an end to more than six months of uncertainty for two Afghan refugee families and their supporters in Harvard.

A Bolton man suffered serious injuries last Sunday when the tractor he was driving rolled over on Ayer Road.

The Select Board will reconsider its recent vote to appoint new members to the Devens Jurisdiction Framework Committee.

The town is one step closer to knowing the cost of installing either a practice or regulation-size softball field in the southwest corner of the Hildreth Elementary School grounds.

The Devens Enterprise Commission wants to eliminate the current cap on commercial development at Devens and replace it with a dozen criteria that would be used instead to track the environmental impact of such development.

The state has over 2 million at-home COVID-19 rapid antigen tests available, and it announced on June 13 that it would be giving them away free to every city and town in Massachusetts on request.

The state reported eight new COVID-19 cases in Harvard for the week ending June 18, one fewer than reported the previous week, bringing the town’s cumulative number of state-reported cases since the pandemic began to 704.

The surprise of Tuesday night's Select Board meeting came when Chair Rich Maiore nominated himself and newly elected Select Board member Don Ludwig to represent Harvard on the Devens Jurisdiction Framework Committee.

Acting on the Water Commission’s recommendation, the Select Board voted unanimously at its June 21 meeting to apply for a low-interest state loan to connect to the Devens water system rather than build a treatment facility for town water. 

After languishing for months in Probate Court, a petition to allow the leasing of the Bromfield House to a nonprofit refugee support group will soon get a hearing.

As the school building project comes to a close, the Softball Field Review Subcommittee is trying to quickly determine what it would cost to put either a practice or high school regulation-size softball field in front of Hildreth Elementary School.

The Ayer Road renovation project will move forward, according to a Tuesday vote by the Select Board.

Data from a trial operation will help the Bare Hill Pond Watershed Management Committee determine if pumping out oxygen-depleted water from the lower depths of the pond could help reduce anoxic conditions and potentially algae growth.

Since the Afghan refugee families temporarily relocated to Bolton in late April, the Harvard Neighborhood Support Team has upped their support for them while awaiting court approval to use the Bromfield House. 

Harvard’s new senior center at 16 Lancaster County Road will have an energy-efficient heat pump system after all.

Hilary Sturgis will become associate principal of Hildreth Elementary School starting July 1.

The state reported nine new COVID-19 cases in Harvard for the week ending June 11, seven more than reported the previous week, bringing the town’s cumulative number of state-reported cases since the pandemic began to 696.

State Sen. Jamie Eldridge announced this week that he has asked the Legislature to include $400,000 in the Massachusetts fiscal 2023 budget for the Devens Jurisdiction Framework Committee to pay for a study of the future of Devens. 

Another round of gun violence that occurred recently in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, has Americans questioning the nature of these tragedies and what can be done to prevent them.