Some members suggest process outdated DEVENS -- Joint Boards of Selectmen Chairman Tom Kinch suggests its time to eliminate the Super Town Meeting process for deciding Devens issues. Full Story
05/25/2012 07:32 AM EDT - HARVARD -- Harvard has lost an affordable housing apartment complex.
The four-apartment Inn on Fairbank Street, owned by the nonprofit volunteer group Harvard Trust Non Profit Properties, was sold via foreclosure auction Thursday, May 17, for $226,000.
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05/25/2012 07:32 AM EDT - Harvard's 16th Annual Memorial Day Pancake Breakfast will take place from 8 to 9:30 a.m. Monday before the parade.
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05/25/2012 07:31 AM EDT - HARVARD -- Controversy has been brewing since annual Town Meeting over the degree of warning given the public about Harvard's mushrooming liability on municipal post-employment benefits.
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05/25/2012 07:32 AM EDT - HARVARD -- A scholarship established in memory of Ginny Thurston, a former selectman and avid gardener who was active in civic and community affairs for many years has a balance of about $17,000, but provisions of the trust stipulate that only the interest can be used to pay out scholarship awards.
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05/25/2012 07:32 AM EDT - HARVARD -- Selectmen voted in new officers at their first post-election meeting Tuesday night, with Lucy Wallace named chairman, Tim Clark, vice chairman and Marie Sobalvarro, clerk.
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05/25/2012 07:32 AM EDT - Storytimes
Infant Storytime ~ Mother Goose on the Loose (no sign-up) - Ages 0 - 2: Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10:30 a.
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05/18/2012 12:54 PM EDT - Nashoba Publishing/David Brow
Checking out the hairbands at the Apple Blossom Festival are twins, Amita, and Asha Khurana, 7, of Harvard.
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05/18/2012 07:31 AM EDT - HARVARD -- For some time, selectmen have talked about the Old Library Project in terms of the cultural pilot program paying its fair share.
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05/18/2012 07:32 AM EDT - BOSTON -- A bill that would have allowed Devens to become its own town has died in the state Legislature after failing to win enough support to come up for a vote.
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05/18/2012 07:32 AM EDT - HARVARD -- The state Department of Education and Secondary Education has required school committees to formulate policies that codify each district's response to middle and high school athletes who sustain concussions.
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05/18/2012 07:32 AM EDT - HARVARD -- Since 1972, the Harvard Ambulance Service has provided skilled emergency care and hospital transport to anyone within the town confines who becomes injured or suddenly ill.
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05/18/2012 07:31 AM EDT - On behalf of the Bromfield track and field teams, we would like to thank the Lion's Club and Harvard Schools Trust for their generous grants to help fund the addition of pole vaulting to the program this spring.
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05/18/2012 07:32 AM EDT - After receiving the Solarize Massachusetts-Shirley grant and becoming part of the Phase 2 of Solarize Massachusetts Program, the Shirley Energy Committee will have its first informational session for all interested residents and businesses within the community.
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05/18/2012 07:32 AM EDT - Chainsaw found
On Tuesday, April 24, a chainsaw was found near a residence on Sherry Road. Although it's possible it might have been stolen, nobody has reported the theft, Officer Daniele Fortunato said, and the chainsaw might have been accidentally dropped from a passing pickup trick.
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05/18/2012 07:32 AM EDT - Grades 9-12
Third Quarter
Grade 12
Sarah Andrews, Jessica Berger, Julia Berger, Scott Blackwell, Aaron Brown, Erin Byrne, Sarah Cannon, Samuel Carlson, Ryan Castro, Matthew Chambers, Young-il Choi, Natasha Coleman, Declan Dean, Elizabeth Durham, Mary Egan, Samuel Elkind, Allyson Farren, Rachel Fitterman, Margaret Frothingham, Jason Frye,
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05/18/2012 07:31 AM EDT - HARVARD -- Transfer station permits for 2012-2013 will be available starting June 1. Cost if purchased by June 30 is $235, $260 between July 1 and July 31, and $290 between August 1 and June 30 of 2013.
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05/18/2012 07:31 AM EDT - Danny Hayward, of Harvard, will appear in the Amazing Theater Company's production of "Olympus on My Mind," a fast-paced musical comedy farce set in ancient Greece.
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05/18/2012 07:31 AM EDT - CALENDAR
FRIDAY, MAY 18
Devens Economic Analysis Team: 7:30 a.m., Old Library, fireplace room.
Celebration tonight!
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05/14/2012 03:27 PM EDT - HARVARD -- Since 1972, the Harvard Ambulance Service has provided skilled emergency care and hospital transport to anyone within the town confines who becomes injured or suddenly ill.
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05/11/2012 11:58 AM EDT - When you are around the center of town at the Apple Blossom Festival, take a walk up to the beautiful Hildreth House and check out the great things we have on our Porch Sale!
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05/11/2012 07:32 AM EDT - HARVARD -- Selectmen met for one final session before the current "regime" ended.
A new member will be seated next time they meet.
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05/11/2012 07:33 AM EDT - DEVENS -- From their location just outside the gates of the downsized Fort Devens military base, the Devens Enterprise Commission took a moment at their May 3 meeting to consider the ramifications of the January Department of Defense request for Congress to establish a new Base Realignment And Closure Commission.
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05/11/2012 07:32 AM EDT - DEVENS -- Devens Enterprise Commission administrator Lowitt told the commission that he is unsure why the head of the Montachusett Regional Planning Commission is looking to the DEC to provide information for a study commissioned by the Joint Boards of Selectmen.
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05/11/2012 07:33 AM EDT - DEVENS -- Social media is becoming a principal tool for emergency preparedness managers needing to notify the public of weather-related danger.
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05/11/2012 07:33 AM EDT - HARVARD -- The wood track was on fire in April for the Harvard Cub Scouts' Pinewood Derby, held in the Bromfield School gymnasium.
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05/11/2012 07:33 AM EDT - HARVARD -- The Bromfield Art Club will enjoy a special visit from Harding Mudge Bush, who will teach a watercolor class featuring his renowned "step by step" demonstration method, including drawing, perspective, color mixing, brush work and special tricks on June 5 at 2:30 p.
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