Harvard News

Alison Porter of Ayer lost her dog last year to old age. She said, "It's time, definitely," when filling out an application to adopt "Madison," a 4-month-old brindle-colored Plott hound.

N ews that The Bay State Banner - the largest and oldest black-owned publication in New England - is suspending publication amid dwindling advertising revenues hit hard yesterday.

Members of the Boys & Girls Club of North Central Massachusetts were among youth invited by the MIT community to an evening of astronomy activities, poster presentations, planetarium shows and science-theater performances as part of the "Astronomy in the City" program.

AMERICA IS OFTEN called a nation of joiners, and the landscape of any community testifies to our desire to belong - from the Masonic lodge to the city softball league to the suburban megachurch.

GOVERNOR Deval Patrick hired Barack Obama's campaign manager to help run his 2010 reelection bid.

Clayton L. Guyett, 85, of Harvard, died Sunday, June 21, 2009, at Life Care Center of Acton, Mass., following a long illness.

Tonight, the city will cut loose. Hundreds are expected to groove during Cambridge's annual dance party on Massachusetts Avenue.

Harvard Police, Fire and Ambulance personnel are now armed with 'shocking' new weapons for the war on cardiac arrest.

The former chief financial officer of the 95-year-old Fruitlands Museum in Harvard has been criminally charged with embezzling more than $1.3 million from the museum.

A former chief financial officer of a Massachusetts museum has been indicted in connection with an alleged embezzlement of more than $1.3 million.

Just three days after the "Super" Town Meeting last week, which failed to grant a use change for Vicksburg Square, the Joint Boards of Selectmen for Ayer, Harvard and Shirley met at their next regularly scheduled meeting.

The concept of a home phone may soon be going the way of the corner pay phone. Government research shows that more and more households are getting rid of their land line.

On Sunday, Harvard Historical Society President Carlene Phillips delivered opening remarks before cutting the ribbon at the entrance to the new display room for the museum on Still River Road.

Thanks to an eminent Tufts cosmologist and his colleagues, Tufts University has received cuttings from an apple tree at MIT that traces its lineage to the English farm where Sir Isaac Newton lived in the 1600s.

According to planners, an event intended to mark the occasion of a special partnership between the town and the families of its veterans and those currently serving in the armed forces is on schedule and highly anticipated.

The return of back-of-bike cam: Shaker ruins, Harvard, MA - June 2009. For more information on the Shakers, click here .

At a public forum sponsored by the League of Women Voters Tuesday night, two planning consultants discussed and answered questions about the proposed rezoning of Vicksburg Square -- the lone warrant article slated for Super Town Meeting in Harvard, Ayer and Shirley next week.

The town with potentially the largest number of residential units to gain from the rezoning of Devens' Vicksburg Square to allow for residential uses is Ayer.

Residents of the three towns that host the Fort Devens property are to vote tomorrow night on the fate of Vicksburg Square, a cluster of historic buildings in the heart of the former Army base.

You can say the decade-long brawl between Ayer and Pan Am railways is at a crossroads -- literally.