People go to Harvard’s conservation lands for many reasons—relaxation, birdwatching, exercise, identifying wildflowers. But recently, people have gone to two conservation areas to do damage.
Last Halloween, the center of Harvard was a ghost town. This year, ghosts, goblins, and mini-Marvel characters will once again fill the streets around the Common in search of tasty treats
The Harvard community is forming a neighborhood support team to help resettle Afghan refugees arriving in Massachusetts.
An anonymous donor, communicating through a Boston financial firm, offered the Harvard schools $26,000 to be used to buy air purifiers.
The state reported no new COVID-19 cases in Harvard for the week ending Sept. 30. The town’s cumulative number of confirmed cases remains at 186.
After three years of witheringly tight budgets, town leaders say they hope to open Harvard’s spending spigot just enough next fiscal year to invigorate the departments and committees that struggled to provide the services residents expect as a pandemic raged and costs rose.
The Open Space Committee is continuing the quest to protect 70 acres of apple orchards and farmland on Prospect Hill Road from being broken up into house lots.
The town’s request for proposals to install a temporary fix to one of the wells that feeds its public water supply brought no responses.
Despite a unanimous vote by the Select Board for the town to embrace and commit to the state’s ambitious climate goals, a proposed resolution to that effect is running into rough weather.
Massachusetts is promoting statewide climate goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and through a town climate action plan and resolution, Harvard could join that initiative.
The School Committee Monday night voted unanimously to join the Open Space Committee and the Parks and Recreation Commission as a co-requestor for the proposed $4.5 million athletic field complex.
At Fall Town Meeting, the Fire Department will be asking the town to approve funding for a new combination aerial/pumper truck. The Capital Planning and Investment Committee voted unanimously at its Sept. 23 meeting to recommend the purchase.
On a warm afternoon that was perfect for picking apples last weekend, a customer and an employee at Carlson Orchards got into a dispute. The confrontation escalated, leading to calls to police and an allegation of assault.
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted students’ education for the past year and a half, but the impact has gone beyond lessons and classes. The pandemic has also disrupted school budgets—creating new expenses in some areas, cutting costs in others, and upending financial plans across the board.
The state reported six new COVID-19 cases in Harvard for the week ending Sept. 23, bringing the town’s cumulative number of confirmed cases to 186.
Planning for the future governance of Devens hit a wall this summer with the news that the towns will get no help from the state to pay for consulting services.
The Open Space Committee and the Parks and Recreation Commission have voted to endorse a proposal for an athletic field complex estimated to cost $4.5 million.
When the town voted in 2018 to commission a feasibility study to summarize the fire station’s shortcomings and provide options for fixing them, it didn’t expect to see a price tag of $17.8 million.
While construction is not quite complete on the new elementary school, members of the Permanent Building Committee already have the building’s maintenance on their minds.
The Select Board Tuesday night appointed Sgt. James Babu acting chief of the Harvard Police Department as the board continues its search for a chief to replace retired Chief Edward Denmark.