What was going on in Harvard a year ago today … 10, 16 years ago? Here are Press headlines from previous issues on or near today’s date.
September 21, 2007
- No override needed; free cash will cover deficit
- Middle schoolers lead the way with hands-on recycling initiative
- School Committee sets 18 goals
September 19, 2008
- Embezzlement rocks Fruitlands
- Shoreline garage proposal provokes intense scrutiny by ZBA
- Election results: Eubank is moderator
- Town Center Sewer Action Committee looks for ‘small success’
September 25, 2009
- Schools may receive free solar array
- Bromfield team to appear on television quiz show
- Vandals strike cars, boats, docks
- Johnson and Sobalvarro vie for selectman
September 24, 2010
- BOS rejects complaints of Open Meeting Law
- Town boards organize to weigh options for historic Poor Farm property
- BOS approves EDC charter to hasten Ayer Road commercial development plans
September 23, 2011
- Grapevine asks about hard liquor license
- DEAT: Stick to affordable housing cap at Vicksburg
- Vicksburg Square built to take ‘hits from bombs’
September 21, 2012
- Board of Health: Infected mosquitoes probably here
- Center on the Common given lease with ‘escape clause’
- Town eyes UMass double-wide for temporary digs
September 20, 2013
- Quality of education tops discussion of declining enrollments
- School Committee names Dwight new superintendent
- Competition for Bare Hill Pond beach space leads to swim line, calls for ‘neighborliness’
- Paving at Bromfield points to permitting process flaw
September 19, 2014
- Schmidt, Nelson resign from Parks and Rec
- Officials say balancing debt and taxes requires longer-term plan
- Amendment to grocery store bylaw is focus of Sept. 22 forum
- Light apple crop threatens to squeeze profits at local orchards
- Bids to resurface McCurdy Track higher than expected
September 25, 2015
- Three-alarm blaze on Depot Road consumes uninhabited cabin
- Plan for school admin offices in Town Hall: Not enough authority, money, or space
- Harvard Hillside ceases publication
September 23, 2016
- Municipal broadband for Harvard?
- Vote hacking: How tamper-proof are Harvard’s election procedures?
- Trust struggles to sell property, mulls changes to membership and mission
- Common gets a haircut: Four unsalvageable trees removed
- State agency approves project manager for HES renovation
September 22, 2017
- Charter Commission gets an earful, votes revisions
- Conservation Commission seeks funds to buy Dean’s Hill
- Debate continues over retired teachers’ health insurance
- Poor Farm owner requests conservation waiver to preserve historic house
September 21, 2018
- Harvard makes the cut: ‘Little Women’ coming to town
- Old library accessibility project bids exceed estimate
- Select Board interviews prospective cannabis businesses
- Planning Board seeks to revive plans for erosion control bylaw
September 20, 2019
- Town well remains offline following latest positive coliform test
- Hildreth House Phase 2 Subcommittee makes cuts to lower project estimate
- Big signs and a little controversy grace Harvard streets
- Free cash exceeds $1 million for fifth straight year
- Subcommittee asks ConCom for deer hunting on town lands
September 25, 2020
- Private wells in some Harvard neighborhoods must include pre-sale test for PFAS
- Still River residents ask town to address speeding, reckless driving
- Residents gather in vigil to remember Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ginsburg
- Power company throws shade on solar plans for new school
September 24, 2021
- MassDevelopment says it has no money for facilitating reuse negotiations
- Committees endorse schools’ five-year plan for $4.5 million athletic field complex
- Select Board appoints Sgt. James Babu acting chief of police
- MCAS shows Harvard students doing well in face of challenges
September 23, 2022
- Residents rally for women’s rights and abortion access
- Threatening letters distract town clerk from her duties
- Voters will decide on restricting nonessential outdoor water use townwide
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