A Look Back- Page 5

 May 1975 The Central Mass. Mosquito Control Project planned to come to Harvard to survey, locate, and record mosquito breeding areas and treat them…

May 1974 The Board of Health announced plans to develop regulations governing the keeping and stabling of horses and related animals. Profits from the…

April 1976 Twenty-eight percent of Harvard’s registered voters turned out for Annual Town Meeting and approved an Omnibus Budget of $2.55 million. Vandalism was…

March 1977 Article 17 on the Annual Town Meeting warrant proposed to institute a full-time fire chief position, with an annual salary of $14,000.…

February 1976 The owners of the Clothes Corner were found guilty of violating the Massachusetts “blue laws” by conducting business on Sundays, and were…

January 1978 The Finance Committee was stumped by the question of how to spend $11,300 in federal funds and decided to seek specific suggestions…

November 1976 The state Board of Education sent a letter to the School Committee asking Harvard to consider the possibility of a regional school…

November 1975 School officials complained that the physical education program at Bromfield was suffering because of a new law, Chapter 622, which mandated coeducational…

October 1974 The incumbent state representative up for reelection, a Republican, invited his opponent to join him in “preserving the beauty of the towns…

September 1976 An editorial observed, “In times past, a town’s business was what made it a town—the relation that a group of people had…