Board of Selectmen, 7/15/08
The July 15 Board of Selectmen’s meeting began with palpable discord between Selectman Peter Warren and the Harvard Ambulance Squad, inspired an impassioned speech
Police Log: July 1 to 14, 2008
Tuesday, July 1: While on routine patrol at 3:45 a.m., Sgt. John Coates saw a car parked near Trail Ridge Way on Littleton County
Board of Selectmen turns attention to Devens
Considers regionalization, timeline To increase confidence in the Devens revenues and costs, Board of Selectmen Chairman Leo Blair suggested at the July 15 selectmen’s
School Committee, 7/8/08
An undercurrent of tension pervaded the July 8 School Committee meeting as members attended to the business of appointing townspeople to the Special Education
‘African Aunties’ strive to bring young Kenyan to local college
Monicah Kivaa. (Courtesy photo) Ann Kivaa sometimes imagines she is a branch of a tree, a supporting beam for the many smaller branches that
Matt Schmidt shares the experience of cerebral palsy with HES students
Matt Schmidt talks to Kathy Kittredge’s fourth grade class. (Photo by Julie Moberly) Matt Schmidt was born with cerebral palsy. He has never known
The General Store: Opening…opening…open!
Julie (left) and Jenny Gormley check out jams made by Irene Mannix in the General Store. (Photo by Lisa Aciukewicz) The General is back.
Friends of the Library announces poetry award winner
Production Week Blues The tenor’s indiscriminate notes are flat. Again. We snicker in the wings Which slides past like raindrops on the window. We
JBOS plans to get Devens expense data
On Thursday, June 26, officials from the Devens Committee and selectmen from Harvard and Ayer approved a three-pronged plan of attack for getting a
It’s Only Natural: Fatal attraction
Throughout the glaciated Northeast there are wetlands referred to as bogs—where acidic peat, or dead plant material (often mosses), accumulates. Many of these bogs
