There will be no new softball field in front of the Hildreth Elementary School.

Vermont State Police are asking for the public’s help in the investigation into the suspicious death of Mary Anderson, the 23-year-old Harvard woman whose body was found in her pickup truck in Brattleboro, Vermont, early Tuesday morning.

Two weeks ago a parent of two young softball players filed a Title IX discrimination complaint with the Harvard Public Schools’ district compliance coordinator. 

Just after the town clock struck 10 last Saturday morning, three Harvard police cruisers with sirens blaring led the Fourth of July parade down Ayer Road from Town Hall. 

Funds have been committed to secure the purchase of an agricultural preservation restriction (APR) for 70 of 75 acres; ensuring Prospect Hill Community Orchard is protected in perpetuity as agricultural land.

With a count of “3-2-1” followed by a blast from race director Mike Thornton’s bullhorn, 176 runners sprinted past the Bromfield School on the first leg of this year’s 5-mile Great Harvard 4th of July Road Race.

Harvard is expected to receive $346,411, distributed over the course of 17 years, to address the opioid crisis. 

The Harvard Ambulance Service is looking for volunteers to participate in its new emergency medical responder program from late summer to early fall.

The state reported 11 new COVID-19 cases in Harvard for the week ending June 25, three more than reported the previous week, bringing the town’s cumulative number of state-reported cases since the pandemic began to 715.

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.