What was going on in Harvard a year ago … ten, fifteen years ago? Here are Press news headlines from issues on or near today's date in previous years..
May 18, 2007
- Harvard chosen for PBS special
- Teachers’ contract settled
- Bromfield newspaper article causes controversy
- Harvard Press launches website
May 23, 2008
- Update on active 40B projects in town
- Voters pass new budget requiring $200K override
May 22, 2009
- School Committee supports voting on superintendent’s future evaluations
- No more signs of H1N1 in Harvard schools
- Cheveralls is chosen as School Committee chair
- Boundary issues beset Vicksburg proposal
- Whine gives way to rumble as Evergreen Solar deadline nears
May 21, 2010
- State DEP honors Harvard Green condos
- JBOS to seek governor’s help with Vicksburg Square proposals
- BOS ‘does not oppose’ Devens request to spray its mosquitoes
May 20, 2011
- Board of Selectmen plots 2012 strategies
- Devens survey rates Harvard schools
- School board votes to evaluate superintendent
- BOS divided over next steps for town building project
- Solarize Harvard project under way
- Sicard is new Harvard fire chief
May 18, 2012
- Sewer plant completion slips to July
- Harvard to offer full-day preschool
- The Inn sold at auction to Harvard resident
May 17, 2013
- Lions to host first Harvard triathlon
- Auditor finds ‘significant’ flaw in town’s handling of cash accounting
- Boxborough selectmen say no to casino
May 23, 2014
- Bicycles Battling Cancer rides through, June 8
- Town will ask for new MART van
- Town Hall: What’s our $4 million really buying?
- Town administrator suggests moving employees out of Town Hall
May 22, 2015
- Unexploded ordnance prompts evacuations
- Few parents attend meeting on risk behavior survey
- Dry spring brings fire danger, may affect farms
- Selectmen agree to June Super Town Meeting
- Housing trust offers subsidy to Grant Road developer
May 20, 2016
- Planning Board is ‘a curb away’ from decision on Hildreth House site plan
- Suggested town center improvements focus on pedestrian safety
- Police arrest Harvard robbery suspect
- Charter Commission chairman hopes for large turnout at first hearing
May 19, 2017
- Committee plans restoration of WWI memorial
- Hildreth renovation: School Building Committee narrows options, seeks input
- Latest Housing Production Plan shows progress; is it enough?
- A ‘unified executive’ for Harvard? Boards to debate charter provisions
May 18, 2018
- Old library roof may need replacing
- Town receives grant to fund half of old library accessible entrance
- Historical Commission ponders bylaw affecting new school
- New charter takes hold; Select Board to plan transition
May 17, 2019
- School Committee elects Ruark as chair
- Architect contract for Hildreth House Phase 2 rejected by Permanent Building Committee
- Old library accessibility project nears end, but schedule slips
- ConCom mulls plan for deer hunting on conservation land in fall
- Bromfield ranked among top 10 schools in state
May 22, 2020
- COA votes to keep Phase 2 request on warrant
- Governor’s bill on mosquito spraying would override local control
- Budget working group prepares for stormy fiscal 2021
- COVID-19 Roundup: Town joins state’s phased reopening, with tweaks
May 21, 2021
- Citizens reject Article 8-7: Commercial district study
- Westward Orchards to close lunch counter
- Teachers prepare to welcome students at new school
- Town Meeting vote leaves Bromfield House in limbo
- Cyclist hurt in crash on Oak Hill Road
- Voters approve spending, reject Bromfield House plan and commercial district study
- McBee joins Select Board; old library will get new roof
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