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 7, 2007
- Override comes to $231,000
- ZBA allows Littleton Road 40B condominiums
- Tsongas and Ogonowski win primary for Fifth Congressional seat
- Town appoints new veterans’ service agent
September 5, 2008
- Selectmen accelerate Devens decision process
September 11, 2009
- Harvard students hear Obama speech
- Are crickets making Evergreen Solar look bad?
September 10, 2010
- BOH says mosquitoes are ‘non-emergency’ risk
- Selectmen press for a neater Common and restrained campaign advertising
- Schools’ finances in good shape
- Leaky oil tank at Hildreth Elementary School finally gone
September 9, 2011
- Harvard first to sign on for regional dispatch
- Phosphorous levels down in pond
- Consultant passes on housing plan contract
- DEAT brainstorming session closes in on Vicksburg Square solution
September 7, 2012
- Plans for Oxbow include boat launch, amphitheater
- Harrod ride helps fund needed equipment
- Town to assess four sites for temporary offices
- Selectmen to seek zoning variance for Town Hall
September 6, 2013
- A grocery store for Harvard?
- Bare Hill Pond: Competing jurisdictions and interests spur change
September 5, 2014
- As Comcast cable transfer vote nears, internet access debate continues
- Bottleneck at the transfer station
- Police investigate Poor Farm Road burglary
September 11, 2015
- The green, green grass of McCurdy Track
- Swanton urges upper Town Hall decision
- Local events in jeopardy as Harvard Family Association searches for insurance
- Town Hall Construction Committee takes steps to keep project moving
- Selectmen discuss elimination, reorganization of four town committees
- Goats will ‘mow’ Smith land
- Pond drawdown will be deeper this year
September 9, 2016
- Town center plan aims for pedestrian safety
- Vellante will retire as town clerk
- Charter commissioners set agenda for upcoming meetings with town boards
- Bare Hill Pond in good shape despite drought
- Conservationists seek to protect 50 acres of wetlands, forest near town’s eastern border
- Hildreth driveway ‘beehives’ too close to meet state regulation
- ConCom postpones Ayer Road roundabout vote
- Search for finance director continues
September 8, 2017
- Selectmen reject teachers’ pleas; vote to change insurance
- Boston magazine ranks Harvard among top 10 metro school districts
- HES Building Committee considers site plans
September 7, 2018
- Fire station study to begin with look at current site
- Ups and downs: A closer look at the most recent new school building estimates
- Housing@Hildreth Committee will appeal Sewer Commission decision
- Harvard turnout high as most voters opt to vote in Democratic primary
September 6, 2019
- Delays plague renovation of old library
- Convicted Harvard mail thief sentenced
- Final community aggregation electricity rates beat expectations
- Bromfield sets tougher attendance policies
September 11, 2020
- Bromfield among top 10 in Boston magazine’s ranking of region’s public high schools
- Senior housing forum draws questions on proposed zoning bylaws
- Toxins absent or at low levels in latest tests, but pond advisory remains in effect
- Proposed bylaws aim to increase availability of senior housing
- Select Board to pursue Ayer Road traffic circle
- War monument committee asks public help to complete honor roll for planned memorial
September 10, 2021
- As COVID-19 cases increase, data shows a backlog of partially vaccinated residents
- Fall warrant article will ask town to join state in cutting carbon dioxide emissions
- Discovery of unexploded munitions at Devens prompts warning
- In quest to keep schools safe, committee sets COVID-19 policy stricter than state’s
- Cyanobacterial bloom keeps no-swimming advisory in effect
September 9, 2022
- Harvard voters back some winners, some losers in state primary election
- Residents question DPW’s process for choosing which roads to repave
- Bowhunting begins next month on some conservation lands
- Parks and Rec approves modified plans for softball fields
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